Title
The association between aggressive and non-aggressive antisocial problems as measured with the Achenbach System of Empirically Based Assessment: A study of 27,861 parent-adolescent dyads from 25 societies
Date Issued
01 October 2015
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Burt S.A.
Rescorla L.A.
Achenbach T.M.
Ivanova M.Y.
Almqvist F.
Begovac I.
Bilenberg N.
Bird H.
Chahed M.
Dobrean A.
Döpfner M.
Erol N.
Hannesdottir H.
Kanbayashi Y.
Lambert M.C.
Leung P.W.L.
Minaei A.
Novik T.S.
Oh K.J.
Petot D.
Petot J.M.
Rudan V.
Sawyer M.
Simsek Z.
Steinhausen H.C.
van der Ende J.
Weintraub S.
Metzke C.W.
Wolanczyk T.
Zhang E.Y.
Zukauskiene R.
Verhulst F.C.
Publisher(s)
Elsevier B.V.
Abstract
Aggression (e.g., assaulting others, bullying, oppositionality; AGG) and non-aggressive rule-breaking (e.g., lying, stealing, vandalism; RB) appear to constitute meaningfully distinct dimensions of antisocial behavior. Despite these differences, it is equally clear that AGG and RB are moderately-to-strongly intercorrelated with one another. To date, however, we have little insight into the sampling and methodologic characteristics that might moderate the association between AGG and RB. The current study sought to evaluate several such moderators (i.e., age, sex, informant, and society) in a sample of 27,861 parent-adolescent dyads from 25 societies. AGG and RB were assessed with the well-known Child Behavior Checklist and Youth Self-Report (Achenbach & Rescorla, 2001). Results revealed small effects of informant and adolescent sex, such that the association between AGG and RB was stronger for parents' reports than for adolescents' self-reports, and for boys than for girls. The association also varied by society. Unexpectedly, the specific operationalization of 'aggression' emerged as a particularly strong moderator, such that the association was stronger for a general measure of AGG than for a more focused measure of physical aggression per se. Such findings inform our understanding of similarities and differences between aggressive and non-aggressive antisocial problems.
Start page
86
End page
92
Volume
85
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Psicología (incluye relaciones hombre-máquina)
Psiquiatría
Subjects
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-84946179832
Source
Personality and Individual Differences
ISSN of the container
01918869
Sources of information:
Directorio de Producción Científica
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