1. Psychometric Properties of a Semistructured Interview to Assess Limited Prosocial Emotions
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Tatiana M. Matlasz, Christopher S. Monk, Emily L. Robertson, Amy J. Mikolajewski, Toni M. Walker, Paul J. Frick, Luke W. Hyde, Nestor L. Lopez-Duran, and Colter Mitchell
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Conduct Disorder ,050103 clinical psychology ,Adolescent ,Psychometrics ,assessment ,Emotions ,psychometric properties ,limited prosocial emotions ,Article ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,Structured diagnostic interview ,medicine ,Humans ,0501 psychology and cognitive sciences ,Child ,Applied Psychology ,05 social sciences ,Reproducibility of Results ,callous-unemotional traits ,Antisocial Personality Disorder ,structured diagnostic interview ,medicine.disease ,Clinical Psychology ,Prosocial behavior ,Attention Deficit and Disruptive Behavior Disorders ,Conduct disorder ,Psychology ,030217 neurology & neurosurgery ,Clinical psychology - Abstract
Callous-unemotional (CU) traits have recently been added to the diagnostic criteria of Conduct Disorder in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders–Fifth edition and of conduct–dissocial and oppositional defiant disorders in the International Classification of Disease–Eleventh edition as the limited prosocial emotions specifier. This change necessitates the assessment of these traits with validated measures in both research and clinical contexts. The current study sought to validate a semi-structured diagnostic interview method, the Michigan Limited Prosocial Emotion Addendum (M-LPE) to the Schedule for Affective Disorders and Schizophrenia for School-Age Children–Present and Lifetime Version, of assessing CU traits based on a recently developed clinician rating system (Clinical Assessment of Prosocial Emotions, Version 1.1) in a sample of at-risk youth. Results supported the interrater reliability of the M-LPE with moderate agreement and high reliability between raters. The M-LPE demonstrated convergent and incremental validity with CU traits and various measures of antisocial behavior. The results provide preliminary evidence for the use of a semi-structured interview assessment of CU traits in research contexts and build the foundation for further validation.
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- 2020
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