Mireault Gina, Rooney Siri, Kouwenhoven Kristen, Hannan Carolyn
Behavioral Sciences Department, Johnson State College, 337 College Hill, Johnson, VT 05656, USA.
Child Psychiatry Hum Dev. 2008 Dec;39(4):519-27. doi: 10.1007/s10578-008-0106-9. Epub 2008 Jun 6.
Studies have repeatedly shown that oppositional behavior is linked to anxiety in clinical samples of children. This study explored whether these variables were similarly related in nonclinical samples of elementary and middle school students (N = 302). Despite greater self-reported oppositional behavior among boys in these samples, anxiety outweighed gender as a predictor of oppositional behavior. These findings suggest that the relationship between anxiety and oppositional behavior is not exclusive to clinical samples and that oppositional behavior that is clinical or developmental has common underlying variables across childhood.
研究反复表明，在儿童临床样本中，对立行为与焦虑有关。本研究探讨了在小学生和中学生的非临床样本（N = 302）中，这些变量是否也有类似的关联。尽管这些样本中男孩自我报告的对立行为更多，但作为对立行为的预测因素，焦虑比性别更具影响力。这些发现表明，焦虑与对立行为之间的关系并非临床样本所特有，而且无论是临床的还是发育性的对立行为，在整个童年期都有共同的潜在变量。
