The Roles of Trauma Exposure, Rejection Sensitivity, and Callous-Unemotional Traits in the Aggressive Behavior of Justice-Involved Youth: A Moderated Mediation Model, Utah, 2015-2019 (ICPSR 37611)
Version Date: Oct 11, 2023 View help for published
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Patricia Kerig, University of Utah
https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR37611.v1
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This longitudinal study examines the associations between exposure to traumatic events, rejection sensitivity, callous-unemotional traits, and aggressive behavior of youth who are involved in the criminal justice system. Assessments were taken across three different timepoints between 2015 and 2019 from youth who, at the time of study enrollment, were recruited from a juvenile detention center in the Western United States (n=320). At each timepoint, youth completed survey-based psychosocial assessments and had physiological data recorded, while caregivers (n=162) answered surveys on their youth's behavior. Administrative records on youth legal charges and incidents in detention were also obtained by the research team to measure recidivism.
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The purpose of the study was to examine the associations between exposure to traumatic events, rejection sensitivity, callous-unemotional traits, and aggressive behavior in a sample of justice-involved youth, relying on reports from youth and their caregivers.
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Youth participants were recruited from a short-term juvenile detention center. All eligible youth were invited to participate. Youth and caregivers who did not comprehend English well enough to understand the consent forms or questionnaires were excluded. The research team visited detention centers and approached caregivers for informed consent prior to approaching youth to determine their interest in participation. Youth who assented to the study completed questionnaires on a laptop in a private visiting room at the center. Caregivers who agreed to participate also completed a survey about their youth's behavior and experiences.
In addition to survey data, the team obtained youth detention records, including legal charges and mental health screening assessment data (MAYSI-2), collected during the duration of the study. During study visits, the team also measured youth physiological data, specifically electrodermal responses (EDR) and respiratory sinus arrhythmia (RSA), via sensors. Measures were taken while youth watched a short clip from a PG-rated film and then again while they described life events of their choice.
At each timepoint, data were collected from youth across two sessions to reduce fatigue. Following the baseline sessions, the research team attempted to contact youth and caregivers for follow-up assessments once a year (three total timepoints).
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Youth who were detained in a juvenile detention center during the study period, and their caregivers.
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Utah Department of Human Services
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The Scales field contains a comprehensive list of measures used in this study. Variable content is grouped by the following themes:
- Traumatic experiences, including type and number of times experienced
- Number of legal charges acquired prior to and following study enrollment (up to 1 year post-enrollment)
- Behavioral measures: perpetration and victimization of aggressive behavior, including electronic, psychological, physical, and coerced intimacy; behavioral inhibition and activation; self-injury and suicidal ideation; antisocial behavior; delinquency; risky behaviors, including sexual behaviors; gang affiliation
- Cognitive/emotional measures: cognitive numbing/moral disengagement, hostility, attachment anxiety, avoidance, empathy, emotional control and regulation, emotional rumination, perceived moral injury, hopelessness
- Mental health: anxiety, depression, post-traumatic stress disorder symptoms
- Caregiver-specific items: parenting stress, adult-child relationship quality, child Machiavellian behavior
- Youth demographics: age, race, ethnicity, sex/gender, sexual orientation, religion, height, weight, household income
- Physiological measures: number and level of skin conductance responses by task epoch (narrative task and video task), tonic period length by task epoch, heart rate
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At baseline (T1), 320 youth and 165 caregivers completed measures. At time 2, 96 youth and 72 caregivers completed measures. At time 3, 52 youth and 42 caregivers completed measures.
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- Adolescent Hostility Index
- Antisocial Process Screening Device (APSD)
- Bandura - Attribution of Blame and Dehumanization Scales
- Behavior and Emotional Rating Scale (BERS)
- Behavioral Inhibition/Activation Scales: Brief (BIS/BAS)
- Children's Depression Inventory (CDI)
- Children's Rejection Sensitivity Questionnaire (CRSQ)
- Courtauld Emotional Control Scale (CECS)
- Difficulties in Emotional Regulation Scale - Short Form (DERS-SF)
- Emotional Numbing and Reactivity Scale (ENRS)
- Empathetic Concern and Empathetic Anger Scale
- Experiences in Close Relationships - Short Form (ECR-S)
- Freyd Risky Behavior
- Gang Affiliation Index (GAI)
- How Friends Treat Each Other (HFTEO)
- Inventory of Callous-Unemotional Traits (ICU)
- Inventory of Statements About Self-Injury (ISAS)
- Jesness Scale
- Kazdin Hopelessness Scale for Children - brief (KHSC)
- Machiavellian Rating Scale for Young Children (MRSYC)
- Massachusetts Youth Screening Instrument (MAYSI-2)
- Moral Injury Scale for Youth
- Multidimensional Experiential Avoidance Questionnaire (MEAQ)
- Multigroup Ethnic Identity Measure (MEIM)
- Pat-Horencyzk Risk-Taking Behavior (PHRTB)
- Parent Adult-Child Relationship Questionnaire (PACQ)
- Parenting Stress Index
- Risky Sexual Behavior
- Sadness and Anger Rumination Inventory (SARI)
- Self-Report of Delinquency
- Scales of Proactive and Reactive Aggression
- State Trait Anxiety Inventory for Children-State Scale (STAIC-S)
- Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ)
- UCLA Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Reaction Index for DSM-5 - Adolescent Version (PTSD-RI)
- UCLA Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Reaction Index for DSM-5 - Parent Version (PTSD-RI)
- What I Think and Feel (Revised Children's Manifest Anxiety Scale-2)
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2023-10-11
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2023-10-11 ICPSR data undergo a confidentiality review and are altered when necessary to limit the risk of disclosure. ICPSR also routinely creates ready-to-go data files along with setups in the major statistical software formats as well as standard codebooks to accompany the data. In addition to these procedures, ICPSR performed the following processing steps for this data collection:
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This dataset is maintained and distributed by the National Archive of Criminal Justice Data (NACJD), the criminal justice archive within ICPSR. NACJD is primarily sponsored by three agencies within the U.S. Department of Justice: the Bureau of Justice Statistics, the National Institute of Justice, and the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention.