Sydner, Sean (2024) Role of general anxiety on the association between callous- unemotional traits and affiliative reward. Bachelor thesis, Psychology.
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Abstract
Callous-unemotional (CU) traits , defined by its associated lack of empathy and guilt and a shallow affect are closely related to an inverted pattern of social reward valuation. This present study investigated general anxiety potential as a moderator of the relationship between CU traits and social reward subscales associated with this inverted valuation of social reward. Specifically, this study investigated this potential moderating effect on the association between CU traits and the subscales Negative Social Potency and Prosocial Interactions, both of which are core components of affiliative reward. Prosocial interactions represent positive affiliative reward, while negative social potency can be seen as negative affiliative reward. This study utilized two linear regression moderation analyses to investigate this potential moderating relationship. The inclusion of anxiety within these models was to not only investigate its potential as a moderating variable but also as a “proxy” to distinguish between the primary and secondary variants of CU traits. This study utilized the inventory for Callous-unemotional traits (ICU), the social reward questionnaire- adolescent version (SRQ-A) and the Depression, Anxiety and stress scale (DASS-21), in order to measure the key variables. Results found that CU traits were positively associated with negative social potency irrelevant of the level of anxiety. In contrast Prosocial Interactions and CU traits were negatively associated and were not moderated by the level of anxiety. although a near significant interaction of anxiety in this model indicate that anxiety has a potential moderating effect although this was not found in this present study. Overall, the results fall in line with the etiological account of the developmental pathways of CU traits and show that anxiety does have a role to play, particularly for those with the acquired CU variant. Keywords; Callous-unemotional traits, Anxiety, Negative Social Potency, Prosocial Interactions,
| Item Type: | Thesis (Bachelor) |
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| Supervisor name: | Kleine Deters, R. and Borger, N.A. |
| Degree programme: | Psychology |
| Differentiation route: | None [Bachelor Psychology] |
| Date Deposited: | 25 Jul 2024 13:59 |
| Last Modified: | 25 Jul 2024 13:59 |
| URI: | http://gmwpublic.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/4154 |
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