Citation

Pollock VE, Briere J, Schneider L, Knop J, Mednick SA, Goodwin DW. Am. J. Psychiatry 1990; 147(10): 1290-1293.

Affiliation

Department of Psychiatry, University of Southern California School of Medicine, Los Angeles.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1990, American Psychiatric Association)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

2399994

Abstract

Hierarchical logistic regression was used to assess the independent and interactive effects of paternal alcoholism and physical child abuse on antisocial behavior in young adult men. Men with alcoholic fathers (N = 131) did not report or exhibit more antisocial behavior than comparison subjects (N = 70). Men with physical abuse histories, however, reported more aggressive and antisocial behaviors during a clinical interview and were rated by a clinical interviewer as more likely to act out aggression. Arrest records did not distinguish the groups. There was no evidence that paternal alcoholism and childhood victimization interacted to increase the risk of antisocial behavior.

Language: en