title: Directions of effects between adolescent psychopathic traits and parental behavior.
abstract: The present study examined the directions of effects between adolescent psychopathic traits and parental behaviors. The data are from a community-based cohort-sequential study. Data were collected annually over 4 years. Participants were 875 adolescents, aged 13-15 at Time 1, and we analyzed their reports of negative and positive parental behavior, delinquency, and psychopathic traits. In results from cross-lagged models, adolescent psychopathic traits predicted changes over time in all of the parental behaviors at nearly all of the time intervals, whereas the prediction from parental behaviors to psychopathic traits was inconsistent across parenting measures and time intervals. These findings suggest that parental behavior is more a reaction than a predictor of psychopathic traits in adolescence.
authors.affiliation: Center for Developmental Research, JPS: Psychology, Örebro University, 701 82, Örebro, Sweden. selma.salihovic@oru.se
authors.forename: Selma
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Salihovic
authors.forename: Margaret
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kerr
authors.forename: Metin
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Özdemir
authors.forename: Vilmante
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Pakalniskiene
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000786:Anger; D000987:Antisocial Personality Disorder / Q000209:etiology*; D001519:Behavior; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007604:Juvenile Delinquency / Q000523:psychology; D008297:Male; D009341:Negativism; D010287:Parent-Child Relations; D016487:Parenting / Q000523:psychology*; D012059:Rejection, Psychology; D012737:Sex Factors