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Separation and Comorbidity of Hyperactivity and Conduct Disturbance in Chinese Schoolboys
Author(s) -
Leung Patrick W. L.,
Luk S. L.,
Ho T. P.,
Taylor E.,
BaconShone J.,
Mak F. Lieh
Publication year - 1996
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.1469-7610.1996.tb01480.x
Subject(s) - rutter , psychology , psychosocial , developmental psychology , clinical psychology , cognition , comorbidity , psychiatry
In a two‐stage community study of 3069 Chinese schoolboys in Hong Kong, those entering stage 2 were classified by scores on Rutter's teacher and parent questionnaires into: (1) a mixed hyperactive/conduct‐disturbed (HA‐CD) group; (2) a pure hyperactive (HA) group; (3) a pure conduct‐disturbed (CD) group; and (4) a normal control group. The four groups of children were compared on a series of psychosocial, cognitive and neurodevelopmental measures. This was followed by a regression analysis to examine the specificity of the differential patterns of associations between HA and CD. There was a mix of negative and positive findings defying a simple, definitive conclusion. However, the positive findings that did emerge supported a growing body of recent literature which favoured a separation of HA from CD and their cross‐cultural validity: the former was associated with neurodevelopmental impairments, the latter with family disharmony. The mixed condition, HA–CD, was a hybrid of its two constituent conditions, displaying the attributes of both.