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PSYCHIATRIC DISORDER IN THE PARENTS OF HYPERACTIVE BOYS AND THOSE WITH CONDUCT DISORDER
Author(s) -
Stewart Mark A.,
Susan deBlois C.,
Cummings Claudette
Publication year - 1980
Publication title -
journal of child psychology and psychiatry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.652
H-Index - 211
eISSN - 1469-7610
pISSN - 0021-9630
DOI - 10.1111/j.1469-7610.1980.tb00033.x
Subject(s) - psychology , antisocial personality disorder , hysteria , personality , conduct disorder , psychiatry , association (psychology) , clinical psychology , psychiatric diagnosis , developmental psychology , injury prevention , poison control , medicine , schizophrenia (object oriented programming) , psychotherapist , social psychology , environmental health
SUMMARY Psychiatric diagnoses were made on parents of 126 boys attending a child psychiatric clink with information from structured interviews. Antisocial personality and alcoholism were commoner in natural fathers of aggressive, antisocial boys than in fathers of the remaining boys but the prevalence of these disorders did not distinguish fathers of hyperactive boys from fathers of those who were not hyperactive. The failure to find any association between parental disorder and hyperactivity argues against the specificity of the relationships between hyperactivity in children and alcoholism, antisocial personality and hysteria in their relatives which were discovered in earlier family studies.