Social anxiety but not callous-unemotional traits predicts shame coping in conduct disorder (opens in new tab)

IntroductionConduct disorders are characterized by emotional dysregulation. Both callous-unemotional traits and social anxiety are heightened in conduct disorder patients and are associated with different mechanisms of emotion regulation. Previous evidence has proposed that secondary emotions, such as shame, might also be affected in conduct disorder and that callous-unemotional traits and social anxiety might be related to shame as well as to shame coping. Therefore, the current study invest...