Sex Differences in the Genetic and Environmental Influences on Self-Reported Non-aggressive and Aggressive Conduct Disorder Symptoms in Early and Middle Adolescence.

Abstract excerpt

Decades of research into the etiology of conduct disorder (CD) has yet to yield a consensus on the existence of sex differences in underlying genetic and environmental influences. This may be partly due to the failure of many previous studies to make a distinction between non-aggressive and aggressive CD symptoms or test for potential developmental changes in sex differences in the etiology of conduct problems....

Topics

• Adolescent
• Aggression
• Child
• Conduct Disorder
• Female
• Gene-Environment Interaction
• Humans
• Male
• Phenotype
• Self Report
• Sex Characteristics