Another study found a similar link between instances of Conduct Disorder and youth whose parents suffer from psychological disorders (Kostic et al, 2014). ... CU-traits can thus help signal to professionals which individuals are most in need of help, and perhaps even guide the treatment administered. ... Divorce, for instance, was found to have an impact on the prevalence and development of CD and other behavioural disorders in youths and adolescents – with some 44% of subjects in one study coming from a broken home (Kostic et al, 2014). ... Studies have also demonstrated a genetic fa...

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In their comprehensive study of past data from representative samples from a wide range of Western countries, Jost et al. observe an empirical correlation between conservatism and a slew of variables both epistemic and existential in nature. ... The aforementioned correlations are in and of themselves related simply because avoiding uncertainty involves being intolerant of ambiguity since ambiguity embodies uncertainty, and together both variables encourage a process of thinking that is guided by the epistemic need of cognitive closure, or "expedient desire for firm belief on a given topi...

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