Laura C Thornton

Biographic Data

ID5759137
NAMELaura C Thornton
GIVEN NAMESLaura C
FAMILY NAMEThornton
SIGNATURETHORNTON L C
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of New Orleans
ORCID0000-0001-5209-9098
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS10
TOTAL CITATIONS14
WORKS AS AUTHOR10
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2011
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX2

  • Predictive and incremental validity of adolescent callous‐unemotional traits

    Open AccessErin P Vaughan, Paul J Frick et al.ARTICLEJournal of Child Psychology and…2025

    BACKGROUND: Callous-unemotional (CU) traits were recently added as a diagnostic specifier for disruptive behavior disorders, largely due to their prognostic utility. However, past longitudinal research has yielded mixed results when investigating associations between CU traits and long-term outcomes, particularly when controlling for the individual's level of antisocial behavior. METHODS: The current study investigated the longitudinal predictive…

  • Longitudinal associations of parental monitoring and delinquent peer affiliation

    Open AccessErin P Vaughan, Julianne S Speck et al.ARTICLEJournal of Adolescence2022

    INTRODUCTION: Poor parental monitoring has been theorized as a key risk factor for an adolescent's association with deviant peers. However, measurements of parental monitoring often only measure parental knowledge rather than parental monitoring actions, leaving the true longitudinal associations between parental monitoring and peer delinquency unclear. METHODS: The current sample consisted of 1095 male justice-involved adolescents (13-17 years o…

  • Do callous–unemotional traits moderate the effects of the juvenile justice system on later offending behavior

    Open AccessEmily Robertson, Paul J Frick et al.ARTICLEJournal of Child Psychology and…2021

    BACKGROUND: Research suggests that callous-unemotional (CU) traits, a recent addition to psychiatric classification of serious conduct problems, may moderate the influence of a number of contextual factors (e.g., parenting, deviant peer influence) on an adolescent's adjustment. The current study sought to replicate past research showing that formal processing through the juvenile justice system increases recidivism and tested the novel hypothesis…

  • The associations of maternal warmth and hostility with prosocial and antisocial outcomes in justice-involved adolescents

    Erin P Vaughan, Paul J Frick et al.ARTICLEDevelopmental Psychology2021Cited by: 4

    Parental warmth and hostility are two key dimensions of parenting for child development, but the differential effects of these parenting dimensions on child prosocial and antisocial development has not been adequately investigated. The current study hypothesized that parental warmth would be uniquely related to child callous-unemotional traits and prosocial behavior, whereas parental hostility would be uniquely related to child delinquency and ag…

  • Estimating and predicting the course of callous-unemotional traits in first-time adolescent offenders

    James V Ray, Paul J Frick et al.ARTICLEDevelopmental Psychology2019References: 7

    The stability of callous-unemotional (CU) traits and both individual and contextual factors that influence this stability have been studied in community adolescent samples but not to great extent in adolescents who have been arrested. We estimated the developmental changes in CU traits measured over the course of 36 months (6-month intervals) following the first arrest of male adolescents ( N = 1,216). Using latent growth curve modeling and the m…

  • Callous–unemotional traits predict self-reported offending in adolescent boys

    James V Ray, Paul J Frick et al.ARTICLEDevelopmental Psychology2017Cited by: 10References: 10

    Research has only recently begun to examine how callous-unemotional (CU) traits interact with contextual factors to predict delinquent behavior. The current study attempts to explain the well-established link between CU traits and offending by testing the potential mediating and moderating roles of 2 critical contextual factors: peer delinquency and the quality of the parent-adolescent relationship among a sample of 1,216 male juvenile offenders.…

  • Annual Research Review

    Open AccessPaul J Frick, James V Ray et al.ARTICLEJournal of Child Psychology and…2014

    Recent research has suggested that the presence of significant levels of callous‐unemotional ( CU ) traits designates a clinically important and etiologically distinct subgroup of children and adolescents with serious conduct problems. Based on this research, CU traits have been included in the most recent revision of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders – 5th Edition ( DSM ‐5; American Psychiatric Association, 2013) – as a s…

  • Can callous-unemotional traits enhance the understanding, diagnosis, and treatment of serious conduct problems in children and adolescents? A comprehensive review

    Paul J Frick, James V Ray et al.ARTICLEPsychological Bulletin2014

    This article provides a comprehensive review of the research on the use of callous and unemotional (CU) traits for designating an important subgroup of children and adolescents with severe conduct problems. It focuses on the etiological significance of recognizing this subgroup of youths with severe conduct problems, its implications for diagnostic classification, and the treatment implications of this research. The review highlights limitations …

  • The road forward for research on callous-unemotional traits

    Paul J Frick, James V Ray et al.ARTICLEPsychological Bulletin2014

    Lahey (2014) provides a thoughtful and scholarly discussion of our review of the research on the potential utility of callous-unemotional (CU) traits for designating a distinct subgroup of children and adolescents with severe conduct problems. In this reply, we attempt to clarify several issues raised in Lahey's commentary. Specifically, by focusing largely on only 1 part of the research review (i.e., implications for evaluating the new specifier…

  • P1-187 Access to alcohol outlets and harmful alcohol consumption

    Anne Kavanagh, Mark Kelly et al.ARTICLEJournal of Epidemiology and…2011

    Introduction While developed countries have either introduced, or are considering, legislation to restrict the number of alcohol outlets, there is little evidence to support this strategy except in the USA. Methods Multilevel study of 2334 adults aged 18 to 75 years from 49 census collector districts (the smallest spatial unit in Australia at the time of survey) in Melbourne, Australia. Alcohol outlet density was defined as the number of outlets …