Child-rearing attitudes and bullying damage experiences that affect symptoms of conduct disorder

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to quantitatively examine the influence of child-rearing attitudes and bullying damage experience on the number of symptoms of conduct disorder(CD) using multivariate analysis. In this study a self-reported cross-sectional survey of children detained at Juvenile Classification Homes was conducted all over Japan. Valid responses were N＝1,339, age M＝16.87, SD＝1.61, boys N＝1,153, girls N＝186. A hierarchical multiple regression analysis was performed with the total score of 15 symptomatic items of CD as the dependent variable. The following factors were introduced in the multiple regression model: gender, age, age at first-onset of delinquency, callous-unemotional trait, attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder(ADHD), the autism-spectrum quotient, the interpersonal reactivity index(IRI), the error proneness Questionnair, child-rearing attitudes and bullying damage. Other risk factors for CD were added to the independent variables to consider spurious correlations. Taking into account the influence of various independent variables, the results of the analysis suggested that parent-child discord, physical abuse, neglect and bullying damage were risk factors for CD. The neglect were risk factors when inattention of ADHD or the Perspective Taking of IRI were high. The Fantasy of IRI were decrease that relationship physical abuse and CD.