Juvenile firesetting: a unique syndrome or an advanced level of antisocial behavior?
Behav Res Ther
; 29(2): 125-8, 1991.
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ABSTRACT
The current study examined whether juvenile firesetting represents a unique syndrome or an advanced level of antisocial behavior. Thirty-six incarcerated juvenile delinquents, all of whom met criteria for a diagnosis of Conduct Disorder, served as subjects and were categorized into one of three groups firesetters, non-firesetters but comparable to firesetters in number of conduct disorder symptoms, and non-firesetters who displayed fewer conduct disorder symptoms than the other two groups. Caregivers completed the Child Behavior Checklist on the youth to provide information about the severity and range of psychopathology. The results indicated that firesetters and non-firesetters who had a comparable number of symptoms did not differ from one another on the CBCL subscales of adolescent psychopathology but both differed from the group with fewer symptoms. These results suggest that firesetting does represent an advanced level of antisocial behavior, but that firesetting is not a unique syndrome, at least not in terms of caretakers' perceptions of the youths' problematic behavior. Implications for treatment of firesetters are presented.
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Colección:
01-internacional
Banco de datos:
MEDLINE
Asunto principal:
Piromanía
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Trastorno de Personalidad Antisocial
Tipo de estudio:
Etiology_studies
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Risk_factors_studies
Límite:
Adolescent
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Child
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Humans
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Male
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Behav Res Ther
Año:
1991
Tipo del documento:
Article