Associations Between Clinic-Referred Boys and Their Fathers on Childhood Inattention-Overactivity and Aggression Dimensions |
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| Authors: | Jan Loney Carl E. Paternite Joseph E. Schwartz Mary Ann Roberts |
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| Affiliation: | (1) Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science, State University of New York, Stony Brook, Stony Brook, New York, 11794-8790;(2) Miami University, Oxford, Ohio;(3) State University of New York, Stony Brook, Stony Brook, New York, 11794;(4) University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa |
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| Abstract: | The question asked in this study of 70 clinically referred 6- to 12-year-old boys with behavior problems was whether or not childhood inattention-overactivity and aggression are transmitted specifically from biological fathers to sons. Fathers' self-reported childhood inattention-overactivity on a retrospectively valid measure was exclusively associated with parents' ratings of their sons' current attention problems on the Mothers' Operational Measure for Sub-grouping (MOMS), the Revised Child Behavior Checklist (RCBCL), and an approximated DSM-IV inattention dimension. Fathers' self-reported childhood aggression was not associated with ratings of their sons' aggression on the MOMS or DADS (a parallel instrument for fathers), nor on DSM-III oppositional or conduct disorder dimensions, but it was exclusively associated with RCBCL ratings of sons' aggressive and delinquent behavior. None of the nonspecific correlations (father inattention-overactivity with son aggression or father aggression with son inattention-overactivity) was significant. |
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| Keywords: | Inattention-overactivity aggression family transmission differential validity retrospective validity |
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