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. 2008 Feb 1;35(2):173-196.
doi: 10.1177/0093854807310157.

INTERPERSONAL CALLOUSNESS TRAJECTORIES ACROSS ADOLESCENCE: Early Social Influences and Adult Outcomes

Dustin A Pardini  1 , Rolf Loeber
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INTERPERSONAL CALLOUSNESS TRAJECTORIES ACROSS ADOLESCENCE: Early Social Influences and Adult Outcomes

Dustin A Pardini et al. Crim Justice Behav. .

Abstract

The current study examined the relation between interpersonal callousness trajectories during adolescence (ages 14 to 18) and characteristics of antisocial personality and internalizing problems in young adulthood (age 26), using a community sample of 506 boys. The influence of several parent and peer factors on callousness trajectories during adolescence was also explored. Although the mean interpersonal callousness trajectory for the entire sample was relatively flat, there was substantial individual variability in both the initial status and rate of change of interpersonal callousness over time. Trajectories of interpersonal callousness were associated with higher levels of antisocial personality features in early adulthood but were unrelated to adult internalizing problems. Conduct problems and parent-child communication difficulties were the best predictors of elevated levels of interpersonal callousness throughout adolescence. However, none of the parenting and peer factors examined predicted substantive changes in interpersonal callousness over time.

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Figure 1
Figure 1. Sample Mean and Select Individual Growth-Curve Trajectories for Interpersonal Callousness Across Adolescence
Note. Solid line is the latent mean trajectory of IC for the entire sample and the dotted lines are 50 randomly selected individual growth curves
Figure 2
Figure 2. Latent IC Trajectories Across Adolescence Predicting AP and Internalizing Problems in Young Adulthood
Note. Standardized estimates are reported. All values are statistically significant at p < .05, except for values labeled “ns” (nonsignificant). Loadings labeled “nt” (not tested) were fixed to 1.0 in the unstandardized model.
Figure 3
Figure 3. Final Model Predicting IC Trajectories With the Intercept Centered at Time 1 (Top) and Then Recentered at Time 7 (Bottom)
Note. Standardized estimates are reported. All values are statistically significant at p < .05, except for values labeled “ns” (non-significant). For simplicity, variables that did not significantly predict the growth curve parameters in the final model are not presented.
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