Irritable oppositional defiance and callous unemotional traits: is the association partially explained by peer victimization?

ABSTRACT:

Background

Irritability is a subdimension of ODD, which predicts mainly to internalizing disorders, and to a lesser extent, conduct problems and callous-unemotional traits. Given that youth with similar dispositions as the irritable types - as well as youth high in callous-unemotional (CU) traits - have both been reported to experience high levels of victimization by peers, the authors examined an extension of the failure model (Patterson & Capaldi, 1990): that irritability increases peer victimization, which, in turn, predicts both CU and internalizing symptoms.

Sample

Using data from 5,923 mother-child pairs participating in The Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children, the authors tested the outcomes of internalizing difficulties and callous-unemotional traits (bas

SUBMITTER: Barker ED 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3619049 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature