Folia Medica Indonesiana
ISSN 0303-7932
Vol. 39 / No. 3 / Published : 2003-07
Order : 8, and page :179 - 187
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Original Article :
The family background of conduct disorder on aggressive and runaway children
Author :
- Endang Warsiki Ghozali*1
- Department of Psychiatry Airlangga University School of Medicine Dr Soetomo Teaching Hospital, Surabaya
Abstract :
A number of 50 children, consisting of 25 children diagnosed as conduct disorder with aggression to people and 30 children diagnosed as conduct disorder with serious violations of rules (runaway from home overnight), were studied (according to DSM IV). The age of these children was between 6 and 18 years. All of them were boys. All of these children had normal intelligence. We got these patients from an institution for delinquent children in Surabaya and Dr. Soetomo Hospital in Surabaya (Indonesia). We used guided interview for the children and their parents. The parents of runaway children mostly exhibited overt rejection attitude to their children but most fathers of aggressive children showed overt rejection attitude and many mothers showed compensatory overprotection (p < 0.001). Unhappy marriage of the parents were mostly occurred to both types of conduct disorder of aggressive and runaway children. The cause of parental separation was not significant for runaway and aggressive children. We conclude that the pathological relationship between the parents and the child is the important cause of conduct disorder in both children.
Keyword :
conduct disorder, aggression, runaway, overt rejection,
References :
Bakwin H et al,(1972) Behavior Disorder in Children, 4th Ed London : WB Saunders Company
Cavan RA et al,(1975) Juvenile delinquency Philadelphia, New York : J B Lippincott Company
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