Callous-unemotional traits and impulsivity: distinct longitudinal relations with mind-mindedness and understanding of others.
Callous-unemotional traits and impulsivity: distinct longitudinal relations with mind-mindedness and understanding of others.
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10.1111/jcpp.12445
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2016-01
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Fernyhough C
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Centifanti LCM;Meins E;Fernyhough C
理解他人精神状态的问题可能与早期外化行为相关的独特人格特征有关。心理理论（ToM）和同理心之间的区别已经被证明是重要的，它揭示了在理解具有冷酷无情（CU）特征和表现出冲动性的儿童所遇到的其他思想方面的问题。本研究旨在探讨儿童早期心理理论和情绪理解能力是否能预测10岁时的CU特质和冲动性。进一步的目的是探讨是否质量的亲子关系非常早期的发展间接或直接预测儿童的CU特质和冲动。我们研究了心理理论和同理心技能是否与外化行为相关的人格特质（即，冲动和CU特质）。我们在一个由96名男孩和女孩组成的纵向队列中使用随访分析研究了这些关系，并结合了母亲心智的测量（适当的心智相关谈话）来研究亲子互动质量的可能作用。适当的心灵相关的谈话间接预测CU特质（在10岁）通过其对儿童的情绪理解的影响。心理理论预测冲动/不负责任的特质，但不再是显着控制外化行为时。目前的研究结果表明，父母谁适当地评论他们的婴儿的精神状态可能会帮助孩子理解的情绪，并可能塑造一个同情他人的理解，从而防止CU特征。
Problems in understanding other people's mental states may relate to distinct personality traits that are associated with early externalizing behavior. A distinction between theory of mind (ToM) and empathy has proven important in shedding light on the problems in understanding other minds encountered by children high on callous‐unemotional (CU) traits and exhibiting impulsivity. The aim of this study was to investigate whether children's early ToM and emotion understanding abilities predicted CU traits and impulsivity at age 10. A further aim was to explore whether the quality of the parent–child relationship very early in the development indirectly or directly predicted the children's CU traits and impulsivity. We examined whether ToM and empathy skills might differentially relate to personality traits associated with externalizing behaviors (i.e., impulsivity and CU traits). We examined these relations over time in a longitudinal cohort of 96 boys and girls using follow‐back analyses, incorporating measures of maternal mind‐mindedness (appropriate mind‐related talk) to examine the possible role of parent–child interaction quality. Appropriate mind‐related talk indirectly predicted CU traits (at age 10 years) via its effect on children's emotion understanding. ToM predicted impulsive/irresponsible traits, but ceased to be significant when controlling for externalizing behaviors. The present findings demonstrate that parents who remark appropriately on their infant's mental states may help the child to understand emotions and may mold an empathic understanding of others, thereby preventing CU traits.