@article{ref1,
title=""Nothing really matters": Emotional numbing as a link between trauma exposure and callousness in delinquent youth",
journal="Journal of Traumatic Stress",
year="2012",
author="Kerig, Patricia K. and Bennett, Diana C. and Thompson, Mamie and Becker, Stephen P.",
volume="25",
number="3",
pages="272-279",
abstract="This study investigated the interrelations among trauma exposure, emotional numbing, and callous-unemotional traits in a sample of 276 youth (68 girls and 208 boys) recruited from 2 juvenile detention centers. Youth completed interview measures of trauma exposure and betrayal trauma, as well as self-report measures of emotional numbing and callous-unemotional traits. Results of path analyses using nonparametric bootstrapping procedures indicated findings consistent with the hypothesis that the association between trauma exposure and callous-unemotional traits was mediated by the general numbing of emotions, R(2) = .40, and also specifically by numbing of sadness, R(2) = .27. In addition, further analyses indicated that numbing of fear, R(2) = .18, and sadness, R(2) = .26, statistically mediated the relations to callous-unemotional traits only for those traumatic experiences involving betrayal. Gender was not found to moderate these effects.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0894-9867",
doi="10.1002/jts.21700",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/jts.21700"
}