TY - JOUR PY - 1987// TI - Personality and antisocial behaviour: A long-term study JO - Personality and individual differences A1 - Lane, David A. SP - 799 EP - 806 VL - 8 IS - 6 N2 - The relationship between the personality components of psychoticism, extraversion and neuroticism, and levels of conduct disorder, delinquency and therapy responsiveness in children is investigated. A series of studies reporting short- and long-term results test Eysenck's (1970) argument that extraverts, because of their lower levels of conditionability, should feature more prominently in groups showing higher levels of conduct disorder or delinquency. The extension of that argument to include the role of psychoticism (Eysenck H.J. and Eysenck S.B.G., Psychoticism as a Dimension of Personality, Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1976) is also subjected to experimental test. Two alternative conceptions of the part played by neuroticism, either that it acts as an amplifying device (high N) or as a filter against pressure to change (low N), are considered. The results support the importance of including personality factors in the study of antisocial behaviour in children.

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LA - en SN - 0191-8869 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0191-8869(87)90133-4 ID - ref1 ER -