Given that this study employed multiple sources of report (parent report of psychopathic traits, teacher report of conduct and hyperactivity problems, and self-report of emotional reactivity) support for the above hypotheses cannot be attributed to shared method variance and is therefore a strength of the current study.
In one study, it was loaded with the lower trait of DAPP-BQ Conduct Problems [ 20].
It will be interesting to investigate the relation between CU traits and age of onset of conduct problems in order to further unravel genetic influence on expression and/or duration of symptoms.
Even so, the patients with more severe antisocial personality traits, as measured by the number of conduct criteria endorsed, were at increased risk of dropping out of treatment.
Group differences were observed on the level of conduct problems and CU traits.
In general, inculcated traits or virtues or dispositions are used "in following rules of conduct".
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There is another advantage of the proposed specifier of CU traits in Conduct Disorder.
To test the utility of this map, fine-scale mapping of weeping trait was conducted.
Studies suggest that more than half of a given performance rating has to do with the traits of the person conducting the evaluation, not of the person being rated.
