Aggressive behaviours and ADHD symptoms in childhood

Duration: 8 mins DOI: 10.13056/acamh.19467

Description

In this Video Abstract Dr. Aja Murray & Dr. Lydia Speyer discuss their JCPP paper ‘A symptom level perspective on reactive and proactive aggressive behaviours and ADHD symptoms in childhood’. Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is one of the most prevalent childhood disorders, affecting around 3.4% of children worldwide. A common and impairing correlate of ADHD is aggressive behaviour. ADHD symptoms and aggression are both heterogeneous and it has been speculated that certain symptoms of ADHD might be more important in aggressive behaviours of different types than others. This study uses a symptom-level analysis to investigate the concurrent and temporal links between ADHD symptoms and aggressive behaviours.

Learning Objectives

1. Investigate whether specific ADHD symptoms are particularly strongly connected to specific aggressive behaviours longitudinally.
2. Explore the relations between proactive aggressive behaviours and ADHD symptoms.