Behar D, Stewart M A
J Child Psychol Psychiatry. 1984 Jan;25(1):119-24. doi: 10.1111/j.1469-7610.1984.tb01723.x.
Past studies have shown that aggressive conduct disorder is more common in boys and in families of low socioeconomic status, and that affected children are usually seen in child psychiatry clinics before the age of 10. In this work we aimed to find how socioeconomic status, sex and age at admission influence the clinical picture of this disorder. We divided a series of 58 affected children into two groups on each of the three factors and compared the groups on 175 variables. We found little evidence that the children's difficulties varied with social class, sex or age. This apparent constancy of the clinical picture reinforces the idea that aggressive conduct disorder is a valid, though broadly defined, psychiatric syndrome.
以往的研究表明，攻击性品行障碍在男孩以及社会经济地位较低的家庭中更为常见，而且受影响的儿童通常在10岁之前就会在儿童精神病诊所就诊。在这项研究中，我们旨在探究社会经济地位、性别和入院年龄如何影响这种障碍的临床表现。我们根据这三个因素中的每一个，将58名受影响的儿童分为两组，并在175个变量上对两组进行比较。我们几乎没有发现证据表明儿童的困难因社会阶层、性别或年龄而异。这种临床表现的明显稳定性强化了这样一种观点，即攻击性品行障碍是一种有效的精神综合征，尽管定义较为宽泛。
