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Gender and drug differences in antisocial personality disorder
Author(s) -
Brown J. M.,
Nixon S. J.
Publication year - 1997
Publication title -
journal of clinical psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.124
H-Index - 119
eISSN - 1097-4679
pISSN - 0021-9762
DOI - 10.1002/(sici)1097-4679(199706)53:4<301::aid-jclp2>3.0.co;2-s
Subject(s) - psychology , antisocial personality disorder , personality , clinical psychology , drug , personality disorders , developmental psychology , psychiatry , injury prevention , poison control , social psychology , medical emergency , medicine
Abstract The relation between childhood behavior disorders (CBD), attentional difficulties (ADD), and antisocial personality disorder (ASP) was examined in a clinical population of alcoholics and polysubstance abusers. Polysubstance abusers reported increased CBD symptomatology, increased attentional problems, a higher rate of ASP, and a greater number of both current and lifetime ASP symptoms relative to alcoholics without polysubstance abuse. An examination of gender effects revealed significant differences on self‐reported adult attentional problems, with females endorsing a greater number of items. As a group, females exhibited the highest rate of ASP. Males showed a significant correlation between current ASP symptoms and both attention and conduct problems in early childhood. © 1997 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. J Clin Psychol 53 : 301–305, 1997.