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Title: Personality heterogeneity in adolescents with disruptive behavior disorders
Citation Type: Journal Article
Publication Year: 2019
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ISSN: 0092-6566
DOI: 10.1016/J.JRP.2019.103851
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Abstract: We first confirmed adolescents diagnosed with disruptive behavior disorders (oppositional defiant, conduct disorder; n = 158) had lower constraint and higher negative emotionality, and greater psychiatric comorbidity and psychosocial dysfunction, relative to adolescents without (n = 755), in a population-based sample enriched for externalizing psychopathology (mean age = 17.90 years; 52% female). We then explored whether different personality types, defined by patterns of personality identified via latent profile analysis, were differently associated with clinical features in adolescents with a disruptive behavior disorder diagnosis. Four distinct personality types (“disinhibited,” “high distress,” “low distress,” “positive”) were meaningfully different from one another. Results highlight personality heterogeneity as a means of identifying individuals at greatest risk for the most deleterious forms of externalizing psychopathology.
Url: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0092656619300777
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Authors: Wilson, Sylia; Hopwood, Christopher J.; McGue, Matthew; Iacono, William G
Periodical (Full): Journal of Research in Personality
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Volume: 82
Pages: 103851
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