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Hyperactive and antisocial behaviors: Comorbid or two points in the same process?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 March 2000

GERALD R. PATTERSON
Affiliation:
Oregon Social Learning Center, Eugene
DAVID S. DEGARMO
Affiliation:
Oregon Social Learning Center, Eugene
NANCY KNUTSON
Affiliation:
Oregon Social Learning Center, Eugene

Abstract

We hypothesized that hyperactivity defines the first stage and that antisocial problems define a second stage in a progression that leads eventually to early-onset delinquency. As expected, a structural equation model (SEM) showed that a latent construct for hyperactivity was significantly related to a latent construct for antisocial problems. We hypothesized that this path reflected a shared mechanism, disrupted parental discipline. A second SEM showed that the relation between hyperactivity and antisocial behavior really reflected a shared disruption in parental discipline. A third SEM showed that having antisocial parents was uniquely correlated with antisocial children but not with hyperactivity. A fourth SEM showed that early-onset delinquency was predicted by a latent construct for antisocial child; but when this was partialed out, the contribution for hyperactivity was nonsignificant.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
© 2000 Cambridge University Press

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