The Present Study
affective empathy, anxiety
SECONDARY
Accordingly, the current study aims to investigate variant-specific patterns of treatment response among 3- to 7-year-old children with conduct problems and CU traits who participated in a targeted parenting program with their caregiver(s). We hypothesized that children classified as having secondary CU traits (i.e., elevated conduct problems, CU traits, and anxiety) would show significantly better treatment response and outcome in parent-rated child conduct problems, CU traits, affective empathy, and internalizing problems than children classified as having primary CU traits (i.e., elevated conduct problems and CU traits, and low to average anxiety). We also hypothesized that membership to the secondary CU traits group would be associated with significantly better treatment acceptability, including lower attrition and higher treatment satisfaction.