Reading Problems and Antisocial Behaviour: Developmental Trends in Comorbidity

Samples of poor and normal readers were followed through adolescence and into early adulthood to assess continuities in the comorbidity between reading difficulties and disruptive behaviour problems. Reading‐disabled boys showed high rates of inattentive‐ness in middle childhood, but no excess of te...

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Published in:Journal of child psychology and psychiatry 1996-05, Vol.37 (4), p.405-418
Main Authors: Maughan, Barbara, Pickles, Andrew, Hagell, Ann, Rutter, Michael, Yule, William
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adolescent
Adult
Adult and adolescent clinical studies
Aggression - psychology
Antisocial behaviour
Antisocial Personality Disorder - diagnosis
Antisocial Personality Disorder - epidemiology
Antisocial Personality Disorder - psychology
Behavior
Biological and medical sciences
Child
Child development
Child psychology
Comorbidity
Crime - psychology
Crime - statistics & numerical data
Developmental approach
Dyslexia - diagnosis
Dyslexia - epidemiology
Dyslexia - psychology
follow-up
Follow-Up Studies
Humans
Intelligence
Juvenile Delinquency - psychology
Juvenile Delinquency - statistics & numerical data
Learning disabilities
London - epidemiology
Medical sciences
Personality Assessment
Personality Development
Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry
Psychopathology. Psychiatry
Reading
Reading disabled children
Reading problems
Social behavior disorders. Criminal behavior. Delinquency
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Summary:Samples of poor and normal readers were followed through adolescence and into early adulthood to assess continuities in the comorbidity between reading difficulties and disruptive behaviour problems. Reading‐disabled boys showed high rates of inattentive‐ness in middle childhood, but no excess of teacher‐rated behaviour problems at age 14 and no elevated rates of aggression, antisocial personality disorder or officially recorded offending in early adulthood. Increased risks of juvenile offending among specifically retarded‐reading boys seemed associated with poor school attendance, rather than reading difficulties per se, Reading problems were associated with some increases in disruptive behaviour in their teens in girls.
ISSN:0021-9630
1469-7610
DOI:10.1111/j.1469-7610.1996.tb01421.x