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A Prospective, Longitudinal Examination of the Influence of Childhood Home and School Contexts on Psychopathic Characteristics in Adolescence

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Much of the existing research examining etiological contributors to psychopathic characteristics considers only biological and physiological deficits, with little consideration given to contextual factors that may play a role in their development. This prospective, longitudinal study examined the influence of childhood home and school environments on adolescent psychopathic characteristics among 390 youth (50.5% female; 46.2% Black/African American, 44.9% Hispanic/Latino, 6.9% Asian or Native American/Alaska Native, and 2.1% Non-Hispanic White). Specifically, this study examined (1) the effect of home chaos and poor parental monitoring on adolescent primary and secondary psychopathy and callous-unemotional traits through the lens of multiple reporters, and (2) whether classroom climate quality across three years of childhood moderated these relationships. The results indicated that delinquency and home chaos in childhood were related to primary psychopathy in adolescence and that exposure to higher quality classroom climates across childhood acted as a buffer by mitigating the negative relationship between parental monitoring in childhood and secondary psychopathy in adolescence. These findings have implications for designing interventions to mitigate the manifestation of youth psychopathy.

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Acknowledgements

The original research and analyses presented in this article were supported by grants from IES (# R305LO30003) and the W.T. Grant Foundation (#1656) to Lawrence Aber (PI) and from W. T. Grant Foundation (#7520) and NIMH (#1R01MH082085-01A2) to Joshua Brown and Stephanie Jones (PIs). The authors are very grateful to the postdoctoral fellows, doctoral students, and research assistants at Fordham University, New York University and Harvard University who have helped in every phase of the work reported here, from data collection through data analysis. Finally, we are grateful to the many thousands of students, hundreds of teachers, and dozens of schools who have made this work possible.

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The original research and analyses presented in this article were supported by grants from IES (# R305LO30003) and the W.T. Grant Foundation (#1656) to Lawrence Aber (PI) and from W.T. Grant Foundation (#7520) and NIMH (#1R01MH082085-01A2) to Joshua Brown and Stephanie Jones (PIs).

Authors’ Contributions

J.F. conceived of the current study under the mentorship of J.B., conducted the statistical analysis, and drafted the manuscript. J.B. conceived of the original study from which data in the current study were used, participated in the design and coordination of the original study and this secondary analysis, and provided significant mentorship and guidance on statistical analysis and drafting the manuscript.

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Fisher, J.H., Brown, J.L. A Prospective, Longitudinal Examination of the Influence of Childhood Home and School Contexts on Psychopathic Characteristics in Adolescence. J Youth Adolescence 47, 2041–2059 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10964-018-0861-2

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