conduct disorder in student: the predicting role of emotion regulation, callous-unemotional traits and schema

Background: the fact that emotional dysregulation and early maladaptive schemas are considered as the defining core of conduct disorder has been validated through numerous studies. a strong association between the diagnosis of conduct disorder and callous- unemotional traits has also been found by numerous studies. objectives: this study was carried out in order to inspect the relationship between conduct disorder and emotion regulation, callous- unemotional traits, and schema in male high-school students in dezfoul, sw iran. methods: in the present descriptive correlational study, 320 male high school students were chosen in dezfoul, using the multi- stage random sampling. data collection was carried out using some instruments including the child behavior checklist (cbcl), difficulties in emotion-regulation scale (ders) inventory of callous- unemotional traits (icut) young schema questionnaire-short form. the collected data were analyzed using multivariate regression analysis and the pearson correlation coefficient. results: the results indicated a meaningfully positive correlation between emotion regulation, callous- unemotional traits and schema with conduct disorder. in addition, the results of multivariate regression analysis showed that among the above-mentioned variables studied, callous- unemotional trait was found to be the most effective predicting variable in conduct disorder (p < 0.001). conclusions: the findings of this study are in full agreement with those of previous ones, and basically show a significant associa- tion between callous- unemotional traits, emotion regulation and schema with conduct disorder.