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Peer relationships and prosocial behaviour differences across disruptive behaviours

Peer relationships and prosocial behaviour differences across disruptive behaviours
Peer relationships and prosocial behaviour differences across disruptive behaviours
It is unclear if impairments in social functioning and peer relationships significantly differ across common developmental conditions such as attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), oppositional defiant disorder (ODD), conduct disorder (CD), and associated callous–unemotional traits (CU traits). The current study explored sex differences and symptoms of parent- and teacher-reported psychopathology on peer relationships and prosocial behaviour in a sample of 147 referred children and adolescents (aged 5–17 years; 120 m). The results showed that increases in parent-reported ADHD Inattentive symptoms and teacher-reported ADHD Hyperactive–Impulsive symptoms, CD, ODD, and CU traits were significantly associated with peer relationship problems across sex. At the same time, teacher-reported symptoms of ODD and both parent- and teacher-reported CU traits were related to difficulties with prosocial behaviour, for both boys and girls, with sex explaining additional variance. Overall, our findings show a differential association of the most common disruptive behaviours to deficits in peer relationships and prosocial behaviour. Moreover, they highlight that different perspectives of behaviour from parents and teachers should be taken into account when assessing social outcomes in disruptive behaviours. Given the questionable separation of conduct problem-related constructs, our findings not only point out the different contribution of those aspects in explaining peer relationships and prosocial behaviour, but furthermore the variance from different informants about those aspects of conduct problems.
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Milledge, Sara V.
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Milledge, Sara V., Cortese, Samuele, Thompson, Margaret, Mcewan, Fiona, Rolt, Michael, Meyer, Brenda, Sonuga-Barke, Edmund and Eisenbarth, Hedwig (2018) Peer relationships and prosocial behaviour differences across disruptive behaviours. European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry. (doi:10.1007/s00787-018-1249-2).

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Abstract

It is unclear if impairments in social functioning and peer relationships significantly differ across common developmental conditions such as attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), oppositional defiant disorder (ODD), conduct disorder (CD), and associated callous–unemotional traits (CU traits). The current study explored sex differences and symptoms of parent- and teacher-reported psychopathology on peer relationships and prosocial behaviour in a sample of 147 referred children and adolescents (aged 5–17 years; 120 m). The results showed that increases in parent-reported ADHD Inattentive symptoms and teacher-reported ADHD Hyperactive–Impulsive symptoms, CD, ODD, and CU traits were significantly associated with peer relationship problems across sex. At the same time, teacher-reported symptoms of ODD and both parent- and teacher-reported CU traits were related to difficulties with prosocial behaviour, for both boys and girls, with sex explaining additional variance. Overall, our findings show a differential association of the most common disruptive behaviours to deficits in peer relationships and prosocial behaviour. Moreover, they highlight that different perspectives of behaviour from parents and teachers should be taken into account when assessing social outcomes in disruptive behaviours. Given the questionable separation of conduct problem-related constructs, our findings not only point out the different contribution of those aspects in explaining peer relationships and prosocial behaviour, but furthermore the variance from different informants about those aspects of conduct problems.

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Accepted/In Press date: 27 October 2018
e-pub ahead of print date: 1 November 2018

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Local EPrints ID: 426026
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/426026
ISSN: 1018-8827
PURE UUID: d28e27a7-e3d7-4027-8202-003a490e9092
ORCID for Samuele Cortese: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0001-5877-8075
ORCID for Hedwig Eisenbarth: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-0521-2630

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Date deposited: 09 Nov 2018 17:30
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Author: Sara V. Milledge
Author: Samuele Cortese ORCID iD
Author: Fiona Mcewan
Author: Michael Rolt
Author: Brenda Meyer
Author: Edmund Sonuga-Barke
Author: Hedwig Eisenbarth ORCID iD

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