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Longitudinal associations of callous-unemotional and oppositional defiant behaviors over a three-year interval for Spanish children

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 April 2019

Mateu Servera ,
Raquel Seijas ,
Gloria García-Banda ,
Christopher T. Barry ,
Theodore P. Beauchaine  and
G. Leonard Burns
Mateu Servera
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology and Research Institute on Health Sciences, University of the Balearic Islands, Palma, Spain
Raquel Seijas
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology and Research Institute on Health Sciences, University of the Balearic Islands, Palma, Spain
Gloria García-Banda
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology and Research Institute on Health Sciences, University of the Balearic Islands, Palma, Spain
Christopher T. Barry
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, Washington State University, Pullman, WA, USA
Theodore P. Beauchaine
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA
G. Leonard Burns*
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, Washington State University, Pullman, WA, USA
*
Author for correspondence: G. Leonard Burns, Department of Psychology, Washington State University, PO Box 644820, Johnson Tower 233, Pullman, WA99164-4820; E-mail: glburns@wsu.edu
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Abstract

The objective was to determine the longitudinal associations between callous-unemotional (CU) and oppositional defiant (OD) behaviors from the first to fourth grades for Spanish children. Four possible outcomes were evaluated: (a) CU behaviors in the first grade predict increases in OD behaviors in the fourth grade, controlling for OD behaviors in the first grade; (b) OD behaviors in the first grade predict increases in CU behaviors in the fourth grade, controlling for CU behaviors in the first grade; (c) both unique effects are significant; and (d) neither unique effect is significant. A longitudinal panel model with two latent variables (CU and OD behaviors), three sources (mothers, fathers, teachers), and two occasions (spring of the first and fourth grades) was used to evaluate the four possibilities among 758 (54% boys) first grade and 469 (53% boys) fourth grade Spanish children. For mother-, father-, and teacher-reports, OD behaviors in the first grade predicted increases in CU behaviors in the fourth grade, after controlling for CU behaviors in the first grade, whereas CU behaviors in the first grade did not predict increases in OD behaviors in the fourth grade, after controlling for OD behaviors in the first grade. OD behaviors thus conferred independent vulnerability to increases in CU behaviors 3 years later among young children.

Keywords

callous/unemotional traitslatent panel modellimited prosocial emotionsoppositional defiant disorder
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Regular Articles
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Development and Psychopathology , Volume 32 , Issue 2 , May 2020 , pp. 481 - 490
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2019

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