Parental rearing practices as predictors of adolescent psychopathic traits

Abstract

The purpose of the study was to examine the parental rearing practices as predictors of adolescent psychopathic traits. Adolescents (N=467) completed EMBU and YPI questionnaires Final model for boys revealed that cruelty and unemotionality factor is related with a lack of father’s emotional warmth; factor of impulsivity and irritability is related to lack of emotional warmth form a father and father’s over-protectiveness. For girls, factor of grandiosity and manipulation is related with mother’s over-protectiveness; cruelty and unemotionality factor is related with mother’s rejection and lack of father’s emotional warmth; factor of impulsivity and irritability is related to mother’s rejection. These findings suggest that parental rearing practices may be related differently to the development of psychopathic traits in boys and in girls.