Abstract
Numerous studies have examined the structure of the childhood externalizing disorder symptoms of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), Oppositional Defiant Disorder (ODD), and Conduct Disorder (CD), both separately as well as simultaneously. The present study expanded on previous findings by implementing a multi-level hierarchical approach to investigating the component structure of ADHD, ODD, and CD criteria in 487 14-year-old boys from the Minnesota Twin Family Study (MTFS). We found support for a hierarchical conceptualization of externalizing behavior criteria in early adolescent boys by specifying how one-, two-, three-, four-, five- and six-factor models of externalizing criteria can be integrated. These results suggest that it may be more beneficial to conceptualize different levels of this hierarchy as relevant to different issues in case conceptualization and research design, from the broad level of an overall externalizing spectrum, to the level of finer-grained subtypes within specific disorders.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 411-421 |
Number of pages | 11 |
Journal | Psychiatry Research |
Volume | 188 |
Issue number | 3 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Aug 15 2011 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:Data collection was supported by NIH grant R01-DA013240-09 . Serena Bezdjian was supported by NIDA training grant T32-DA07313 . Steve Malone was supported in part by NIH grant K01-AA01561 .
Keywords
- ADHD
- CD
- Hierarchical modeling
- ODD
- Principle components