Abstract
In this article we analysed the association between psychopathic traits manifested at early age and behavioral problems in adolescents with an extension of correspondence analysis. The used technique allows to verify the relationship between row and column variables in a two-way contingency table. The data are obtained submitting to a sample of 689 high school students two questionnaires: The Inventory of Callous-Unemotional Traits (ICU) and The Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ)). Founding has an important pedagogical impact. The educational professionals, who spend most of the day with the kids, hardly can identify the Callous-unemotional traits but, at same time, could identify easily behavioral problems allowing the implementation of early treatments or the use of pedagogical strategies for young people that could have a high risk of psychopathic traits.
Highlights
The last few years have seen a significant increase in literature and research dealing with psychopathological disorders in childhood and adolescence (Gritti et al, 2014)
The educational professionals, who spend most of the day with the kids, hardly can identify the Callous-unemotional traits but, at same time, could identify behavioral problems allowing the implementation of early treatments or the use of pedagogical strategies for young people that could have a high risk of psychopathic traits
Individuals who declared to use drugs, in presence of callous- unemotional traits” (CU) traits showed a different correlation with behavioral problems different from the association highlights in students who do not use drugs: subjects with callousness dominance result related to the abnormal dimension of the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ), those with a predominance of the uncaring or unemotional trait end up in the borderline dimension
Summary
The last few years have seen a significant increase in literature and research dealing with psychopathological disorders in childhood and adolescence (Gritti et al, 2014) Such studies are related to understanding the origin of the disorders, how to treat them, how to manage them and, last but not least, their strong connection with the development of a serious criminal career. The Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ) (Goodman, 1997 and 1999) is a well-validated brief emotional and behavioral screening questionnaire for detecting possible mental health problems in children and young people that is able to rank, basing on cutoff points, classify subjects as normal, borderline, or abnormal. Correspondence analysis is a descriptive technique that affords to define the relationship between qualitative variables, measured in nominal and ordinal scales (Beh 2004).
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