Psychopathic traits in adolescence Associations with the revised Reinforcement Sensitivity Theory systems》.pdf

Personality and Individual Differences 50 (2011) 201–205 Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Personality and Individual Differences journal homepag e: www.elsevier.c om/locate/paid Psychopathic traits in adolescence: Associations with the revised Reinforcement Sensitivity Theory systems Annelore Roose a,b, Patricia Bijttebier b,⇑, Laurence Claes b, Scott O. Lilienfeld c a Research Assistant of the Research Foundation, Flanders, Belgium b Department of Psychology, University of Leuven, Belgium c Department of Psychology, Emory University, Atlanta, United States a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t Article history: The present study aims to expand work on psychopathic traits and the Reinforcement Sensitivity Theory Received 2 August 2010 (RST, Gray McNaughton, 2000). We investigated the associations between BIS/BAS sensitivity and psy- Received in revised form 21 September chopathy factors – measured by means of the Antisocial Process Screening Device (APSD, Frick Hare, 2010 2001) and the Youth Psychopathic Traits Inventory (YPI, Andershed, Kerr, Stattin, Levander, 2002 ) – Accepted 22 September 2010 Available online 28 October 2010 in a community sample of 830 adolescents. The Callous and Unemotional (CU) factor was inversely related to the Fight Flight Freeze System (FFFS), BIS-Anxiety, and BAS Reward-Responsiveness. Moreover, the association between FFFS and CU was mediated by BIS-Anxiety. The Impulsivity/