Conduct problems and callous-unemotional traits in adolescence: Social cognitive and personality features

有患精神病风险的青少年只关注自己的需要，很少关心他人的幸福。迄今为止，很少有研究关注社会认知和人格因素，这些因素可能导致这些个体出现严重的行为问题、非典型的从属关系和贫困的社会关系。许多实验范式可以用来研究有发展为精神病风险的儿童的非典型社会关系的神经认知相关性，与他们的典型发展同龄人，以及有行为问题但冷漠无情特征水平较低的同龄人（表明发展为精神病的风险较低）相比。这些任务包括：评估一个人使用社交信息的程度的任务；评估为自己和他人努力意愿的任务；评估模拟他人思维能力的任务，以及这与视角获取的关系；开发并验证了一种新的用于青少年人群的人格测量方法，以及它与青少年行为问题和冷酷无情特征的关系。为了匹配和协变量的目的，将包括精神症状学、物质使用和认知能力的测量

Adolescents at risk of developing psychopathy are focused on their own needs and have very little concern for other people's welfare. To date, very little research has focussed on the social cognitive and personality factors that might contribute to the severe conduct problems, atypical affiliation, and impoverished social relationships in these individuals. A number of experimental paradigms can be used to investigate neurocognitive correlates of atypical social relationships in children at risk of developing psychopathy, compared with their typically developing peers, as well as peers with conduct problems but lower levels of callous-unemotional traits (indicating lower risk of developing psychopathy). These include: tasks assessing the extent to which a person uses social information; tasks assessing willingness to make effort for oneself vs others; tasks assessing ability to model others' minds and how this relates to perspective taking; and development and validation of a new personality measure for use with adolescent populations as well as its relationship with conduct problems and callous-unemotional traits in adolescence. Measures of psychiatric symptomatology, substance use and cognitive ability will be included for matching and covariate purposes