Dissertation
Limited Prosocial Emotions as a Specifier for ODD: Is it Warranted?
Washington State University
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Washington State University
01/2022
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.7273/000004587
Handle:
https://hdl.handle.net/2376/118613
Abstract
The limited prosocial emotions (LPE) specifier, also referred to as callous-unemotional traits, was added to the fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5) as a specifier for conduct disorder (CD). More recently, the LPE specifier was added to the 11th edition of the International Classification of Diseases (ICD-11) as a specifier for Oppositional Defiant Disorder (ODD). Little research has evaluated the usefulness of LPE as a specifier for ODD, especially in comparison to its usefulness as a specifier for CD. For LPE to be a useful specifier for ODD, it is necessary for distinct ODD and ODD + LPE clinical groups to exist and for the groups to show different patterns/severity of psychopathology and impairment. This issue was evaluated in a community sample of 1,733 third-to-sixth grade Spanish children from the Balearic Islands. Mothers, fathers, and teachers completed measures of LPE, ODD, ADHD-inattention, ADHD-hyperactivity/impulsivity, anxiety, depression, social impairment, peer-rejection, and academic impairment on the children. Few differences on the symptom and impairment dimensions occurred between ODD only and ODD + CU clinical groups. There was also very low overlap between children with scores in the clinical range (1.50 standard deviations) on ODD and CU. The findings suggest that while ODD and CU represent distinct constructs, the LPE (CU) construct may not be a useful specifier for ODD, especially in contrast to the usefulness of LPE (CU) as a specifier for CD. Additional research with various ages and clinical groups are needed to determine if these results replicate and thus build a case that LPE may not be a useful specifier for ODD.
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- Title
- Limited Prosocial Emotions as a Specifier for ODD
- Creators
- Julie Chrysosferidis
- Contributors
- G. Leonard Burns (Advisor)Masha Gartstein (Committee Member)Paul Strand (Committee Member)
- Awarding Institution
- Washington State University
- Academic Unit
- Psychology, Department of
- Theses and Dissertations
- Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Washington State University
- Publisher
- Washington State University
- Number of pages
- 69
- Identifiers
- OCLC#: 1363847220; 99900898740701842
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Dissertation