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Multiple Influences on Deviant Behaviour in Children with Epilepsy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 July 2008

Christopher Bagley
Christopher Bagley
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Department of Sociology, University of Surrey, Guildford
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Summary. A detailed parametric study has been made of data concerning epilepsy in 118 children. Thirty-nine items of behaviour disorder, and eighteen items of parental attitudes and behaviour have been subjected to separate principal components analyses. The resulting components, together with a number of neurological and environmental variables, have been correlated. A multiple regression analysis has been carried out using the chief component of behaviour disorder as a dependent variable. This exercise indicates that both social and neurological variables are correlated with aggressive behaviour, and are independent of one another. The usefulness of this kind of study for solving the problem of integrating the approaches of sociology, psychology and biology in the study of social behaviour is discussed.

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Research Article
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Journal of Biosocial Science , Volume 5 , Issue 1 , January 1973 , pp. 1 - 16
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1973

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