Gender Differences in Children's Conduct Problems: A Multigroup Analysis of Latent Profiles Based on Temperament and Psychopathic Traits.

IF 3.2 2区心理学 Q1 PSYCHOLOGY, MULTIDISCIPLINARY

Psicothema Pub Date : 2024-01-01 DOI:10.7334/psicothema2023.44

María Álvarez-Voces, Estrella Romero

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Background: Despite the high prevalence of conduct problems in children, and their social and health impact, little is known about gender differences in their characteristics, determinants and implications. This three-year longitudinal study explored the diversity of individual trait configurations in children with conduct problems, assessing whether 1) the same profiles can be identified in boys and girls and, 2) the predictors and outcomes of these profiles are invariant across genders.

Method: A multigroup analysis of latent profiles based on temperamental and psychopathic traits was performed on a sample of 401 young children (50.87% girls) with high scores in conduct problems.

Results: Both the number of profiles and the means and variances of compositional variables were similar across genders, but the distributions were different. Four profiles were identified, and girls belonged to the least problematic group more frequently. While the predictors were invariant across genders, outcomes were not.

Conclusions: This study contributes to the literature on heterogeneity in conduct problems by identifying specific constellations of traits in both boys and girls and shows the importance of considering gender in understanding the progression of conduct problems.

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儿童行为问题的性别差异：基于气质和心理变态特征的潜意识特征的多组分析》（A Multigroup Analysis of Latent Profiles Based on Temperament and Psychopathic Traits）。

背景：尽管行为问题在儿童中的发生率很高，并对社会和健康产生了影响，但人们对其特征、决定因素和影响方面的性别差异却知之甚少。这项为期三年的纵向研究探讨了行为问题儿童个体特质配置的多样性，以评估 1) 男孩和女孩是否具有相同的特质配置；2) 这些特质配置的预测因素和结果在不同性别间是否具有不变性：方法：对 401 名行为问题得分较高的幼儿样本（50.87% 为女孩）进行了基于气质特征和精神变态特征的潜在特征的多组分析：不同性别的特征数量、组成变量的均值和方差相似，但分布不同。共发现了四种特征，其中女孩更多属于问题最少的一组。虽然不同性别的预测因素是不变的，但结果却不一样：本研究通过识别男孩和女孩的特定特征组合，为行为问题的异质性文献做出了贡献，并表明了在理解行为问题的发展过程中考虑性别因素的重要性。

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Psicothema PSYCHOLOGY, MULTIDISCIPLINARY-

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6.50

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24 weeks

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