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Self‐Perceptions of Adolescents With and Without Mood Disorder: Content and Structure
Author(s) -
Evans David W.,
Brody Leslie,
Noam Gil G.
Publication year - 1995
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.1469-7610.1995.tb01667.x
Subject(s) - psychology , perception , mood , clinical psychology , developmental psychology , perspective (graphical) , artificial intelligence , neuroscience , computer science
This study compared the self‐perceptions of three groups of adolescents: one group with conduct disorder, a second group comorbid with both mood and conduct disorder, and a third group of normal controls. Results indicated that the three groups differed on several domains of self‐perception, with each group reporting perceived strengths and weaknesses. Second‐order principal component analyses revealed differences across groups in the structure of their self‐perceptions. Finally, regression analyses indicated that self‐perceptions share variance with a mixture of internalizing and externalizing symptoms. Results are discussed from a clinical‐developmental perspective.