Conceptualizing Callous-Unemotional Traits in Chinese Preschoolers: Factor Structure and Measurement Invariance.

Content Provider	Europe PMC
Author	Zhang, Gengli Zhu, Yantong
Editor	Budisteanu, Magdalena Rad, Florina
Copyright Year	2023
Abstract	With the increasing use of the Inventory of Callous Unemotional Traits (ICU) to examine callous-unemotional traits, few studies have explicitly tested the most appropriate ICU factor structures and measurement invariance in Chinese children at preschool age. This study was conducted with a large community sample of 2055 Chinese preschoolers (53.6% male, M age = 62.23 months, SD = 9.91) to test the most appropriate model of ICU and the measurement invariance across parent gender, child gender, as well as age. The confirmatory factor model suggested that the two-factor model with 11 items (ICU-11) is the best-fitting model for a Chinese preschool sample, which includes a callousness and an unemotional factor. The results from measurement invariance revealed that the factor structures were invariant across child gender, as well as child age and parental gender. The finding suggested that the ICU-11 may be a useful tool for evaluating CU traits in Chinese preschoolers.
Volume Number	10
PubMed Central reference number	PMC10297020
Issue Number	6
PubMed reference number	37371157
Journal	Children (Basel)
e-ISSN	22279067
DOI	10.3390/children10060925
Language	English
Publisher	MDPI
Publisher Date	2023-05-24
Access Restriction	Open
Rights License	Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). © 2023 by the authors.
Subject Keyword	Chinese preschoolers factor structure inventory of callous-unemotional traits measurement invariance callous-unemotional traits
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health