Abstract
The current study aims to address socioeconomic status (SES) as a moderating variable between psychopathic traits and conduct problems in a sample of 2432 Dutch adolescents (Mage = 14.50 years, SD = 1.67, 56% male). Both family and neighborhood SES were measured, with income as a proxy for the level of SES. There were small but significant positive correlations between the behavioral and interpersonal dimensions of psychopathy and family SES, a small but significant negative correlation between the affective dimension and neighborhood SES, and a small and significant positive correlation between neighborhood SES and the behavioral dimension of psychopathy. Results further showed that the relations between youth psychopathic traits were moderated by neither family SES nor neighborhood SES. The results suggest that the relations between psychopathic traits and conduct problems are equally strong for lower and higher SES youth. Taken together, these findings warrant the conclusions that SES does not play a role as a moderator in the relation between psychopathy and conduct problems.
Highlights
The current study aims to address socioeconomic status (SES) as a moderating variable between psychopathic traits and conduct problems in a sample of 2432 Dutch adolescents (Mage = 14.50 years, SD = 1.67, 56% male)
In the first step for the analysis on psychopathic traits and SES we entered Neighborhood SES, Family SES and the three psychopathy dimensions in a multiple regression analysis; together, these traits explained a significant amount of variance in conduct problems, R2 = 0.35, F(5, 2413) = 202.476, p < 0.001
We found that the relations between youth psychopathic traits and conduct problems were not moderated by family or neighborhood SES
Summary
The current study aims to address socioeconomic status (SES) as a moderating variable between psychopathic traits and conduct problems in a sample of 2432 Dutch adolescents (Mage = 14.50 years, SD = 1.67, 56% male). Both family and neighborhood SES were measured, with income as a proxy for the level of SES. The results suggest that the relations between psychopathic traits and conduct problems are strong for lower and higher SES youth. Taken together, these findings warrant the conclusions that SES does not play a role as a moderator in the relation between psychopathy and conduct problems. J Abnorm Child Psychol (2018) 46:1643–1649 psychopathic tendencies were more strongly related to risk decision making among high SES children (Gao et al 2009), whereas another study found that only the relation between impulsivity and substance abuse was stronger in high SES neighborhoods (Ray et al 2016)
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