Prospective test of the developmental propensity model of antisocial behavior: from childhood and adolescence into early adulthood.

ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND:The developmental propensity model of antisocial behavior posits that several dispositional characteristics of children transact with the environment to influence the likelihood of learning antisocial behavior across development. Specifically, greater dispositional negative emotionality, greater daring, and lower prosociality-operationally, the inverse of callousness- and lower cognitive abilities are each predicted to increase risk for developing antisocial behavior. METHODS:Prospective tests of key predictions derived from the model were conducted in a high-risk sample of 499 twins who were assessed on dispositions at 10-17 years of age and assessed for antisocial personality disorder (APD) symptoms at 22-31 years of age. Predictions were tested separately for parent and youth

SUBMITTER: Lahey BB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5975120 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature