title: The Contribution of Personality and Refugee Camp Experience to Callous and Unemotional Traits Among Immigrant Adolescents in the United States: Implications for the DSM-5 "Limited Prosocial Emotions" Specifier.
abstract: Callous and Unemotional (C&U) traits characterize a group of adolescents who engage and persist in especially severe antisocial behaviors. These traits have been included in DSM-5 within a "Limited Prosocial Emotions" (LPE) specifier for Conduct Disorder. To investigate the generalizability of this specifier to non-Western cultures, we examined associations among Big Five personality, refugee camp experience, and C&U traits among 81 immigrant adolescents from non-Western cultures. Adolescents with refugee camp history endorsed higher levels of Uncaring than other adolescents. Personality traits explained 6 (Unemotional) to 18 % (Callousness) of the variance in C&U traits. The association between Neuroticism and Callousness held only for adolescents with a refugee camp history. Our results corroborate the importance of considering personality to understand C&U traits and the LPE specifier. Results also raise questions regarding the applicability of C&U traits to non-Western adolescents with varying pre-immigration experiences, and raise the possibility that the LPE specifier is vulnerable to false-positive identifications among such individuals.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, Georgia State University, PO Box 5010, Atlanta, GA, 30302-5010, USA. rlatzman@gsu.edu.
authors.forename: Robert D
authors.identifier: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1175-8090
authors.initials: RD
authors.lastname: Latzman
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, Georgia State University, PO Box 5010, Atlanta, GA, 30302-5010, USA.
authors.forename: Mariya V
authors.initials: MV
authors.lastname: Malikina
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, Georgia State University, PO Box 5010, Atlanta, GA, 30302-5010, USA.
authors.forename: Lisa K
authors.initials: LK
authors.lastname: Hecht
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA.
authors.forename: Scott O
authors.initials: SO
authors.lastname: Lilienfeld
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, Georgia State University, PO Box 5010, Atlanta, GA, 30302-5010, USA.
authors.forename: Wing Yi
authors.initials: WY
authors.lastname: Chan
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000987:Antisocial Personality Disorder / Q000503:physiopathology*; D002648:Child; D019955:Conduct Disorder / Q000503:physiopathology*; D054242:Emigrants and Immigrants / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010551:Personality / Q000502:physiology*; D012036:Refugees / Q000523:psychology*; D014481:United States; D055815:Young Adult
keywords: Big Five personality; Callous and Unemotional traits; Conduct Disorder; DSM-5; Immigrant adolescents