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20 Youth Violence & Juv. Just. 3 (2022)

handle is hein.journals/yvja20 and id is 1 raw text is: Article Youth Violence and Juvenile Justice 2022, Vol. 20(I) 3-21 Maturation as a Prom oter of ©TheAuthor(s) 2021 Chan e i Fea ure ofArticle reuse guidelines: Change in Features of ' --'-- sagepub.com/journals-permissions DOI: 10.1177/15412040211030978 journals sagepub com/home/yvj Adolescence and @SAGE Emerging Adulthood Evan C. McCuish' and Kelsey Gushue' Abstract The relationship between psychopathy and negative behavioral, social, and health outcomes has lead to calls to identify factors that promote change in features of psychopathy. Given that maturation has important implications for changes in personality more broadly, it also may be informative of changes in specific personality traits associated with psychopathy. Rocque's integrated maturation theory was used in the current study to guide the measurement of psychosocial, adult social role, and identity maturation domains among boys and girls from the Pathways to Desistance Study (n 1,354). Based on cross-lagged dynamic panel models, within-individual change in temperance (psychosocial maturation), work orientation and consideration of others (adult social role maturation), and moral disengagement (identity maturation) predicted within-individual change in features of psychopathy measured using the Youth Psychopathic Traits Inventory. Maturation may influence features of psychopathy directly or indirectly through changes in a person's social environment. Understanding why features of psychopathy change is an important step for developing person- oriented intervention strategies. Keywords adult social roles, identity, longitudinal data analysis, psychopathy, psychosocial maturation Psychopathy is defined by deficits in interpersonal (e.g., manipulative, deceitful), affective (e.g., callous-unemotional [CU] traits, lack of remorse), and behavioral (e.g., impulsivity, sensation- seeking) domains of functioning (Andershed et al., 2002). Persons with strong features of psycho- pathy are at-risk of various negative outcomes, including criminal behavior, poor physical health, unemployment, low educational attainment, additional mental health problems (e.g., anxiety, mood, and substance use disorders), victimization, and an overall poorer quality of life (Beaver et al., 2014; ' School of Criminology, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada Corresponding Author: Evan C. McCuish, School of Criminology, Simon Fraser University, 8888 University Drive, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada, V5A IS6. Email: evan_mccuish@sfu.ca