RT Article
T1 Factor structure of the inventory of callous-unemotional traits in a representative sample of German 9th grade students
JF Journal of abnormal child psychology
VO 48
IS 1
SP 43
OP 55
A1 Kliem, Sören
A2 Lohmann, Anna
A2 Neumann, Merten
A2 Glaubitz, Christoffer
A2 Haselbach, Solveig
A2 Bergmann, Marie Christine
A2 Baier, Dirk 1976-
LA English
YR 2020
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1822158397
AB Callous-unemotional (CU) traits represent the affective components of the psychopathy construct and show a strong relationship to violence and conduct-disorder in children. The Inventory of Callous-Unemotional Traits (ICU) is the current standard to assess CU traits. Despite the ICU having originally been constructed as a four-dimensional instrument, several studies found a three-factorial structure in combination with a general ICU-factor to be the best fitting factor-model. An imbalance in the number of positively and negatively worded items can be observed between the identified ICU dimensions. To investigate the effect of item keying on the factor structure we tested different factor-models in data stemming from a large sample (N = 3878) of German ninth grade students. Our findings suggest that the original four-factorial structure with a method factor shows good model fit. This solution is furthermore in line with the specifiers of the additional coding of Limited Prosocial Emotions for Conduct Disorder in the DSM-V.
NO Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 53-55
NO Gesehen am 11.11.2022
K1 Psychopathie
K1 callous-unemotional traits
K1 Psychopathy
K1 Conduct Disorder
K1 Factor analysis
K1 ICU
DO 10.1007/s10802-019-00590-x