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Preadolescent Children of Substance‐Dependent Fathers with Antisocial Personality Disorder: Psychiatric Disorders and Problem Behaviors
Author(s) -
Moss Howard B.,
Baron David A.,
Hardie Thomas L.,
Vanyukov Michael M.
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
the american journal on addictions
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.997
H-Index - 76
eISSN - 1521-0391
pISSN - 1055-0496
DOI - 10.1080/105504901750532157
Subject(s) - conduct disorder , psychology , psychopathology , antisocial personality disorder , anxiety , child psychopathology , psychiatry , clinical psychology , depression (economics) , poison control , injury prevention , medicine , environmental health , economics , macroeconomics
We compared psychiatric disorders and problem behavior scores in pre‐adolescent children of fathers with alcohol or other drug dependence and ASP (SD+/ASP+), children whose fathers had substance dependence without ASP (SD+/ASP‐), and children whose fathers were without either disorder (SD—/ASP‐). SD+/ASP+ children showed elevated rates of major depression, conduct disorder, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, oppositional defiant disorder, and separation anxiety disorder when compared to SD+/ASP—and SD—/ASP—children. SD+/ASP+ children had higher internalizing and externalizing problem behavior scores than the other two groups of children. The results suggest that SD+/ASP+ children are at significant risk for internalizing and externalizing psychopathology.