Personality differences in children and adolescents with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, conduct disorder, and controls

Article Abstract:

Differences in personality profiles are examined between children who differed in their co-morbidity of externalizing disorders that include attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and conduct disorder (CD). The extreme personality profile might represent a liability toward the occurrence of ADHD and CD with more extreme profiles contributing to the occurrence of both disorders among boys and girls.

Diagnosis, Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder, Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, Personality in children, Childhood personality

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Major depression and conduct disorder in youth: associations with parental psychopathology and parent-child conflict

Article Abstract:

A sample drawn from a population of twins and their families diagnosed with conduct disorder (CD) and major depression (MDD) was taken to study parent-child conflict and psychopathology in their parents. It showed CD and MDD in adolescents appeared to be related to mother also having a history of MDD but appeared unrelated to the father without or with a history of antisocial behavior.

United States, Parent and child, Parent-child relations, Major depressive disorder

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Empathy in boys with disruptive behavior disorders

Article Abstract:

Empathy in 8 to 12 years clinically referred boys with disruptive behavior disorders (DBD) and age-matched normal controls was examined. The situational factors may be involved in DBD boys' reduced responsiveness to another person's sadness.

Netherlands, Psychological aspects, Health aspects, Children, Child behavior, Empathy, Child behaviour

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