title: Developmental Relations Between ADHD Symptoms and Reactive Versus Proactive Aggression Across Childhood and Adolescence.
abstract: Objective:Past research has provided some preliminary evidence that ADHD and reactive aggression have overlapping neurocognitive bases. Based on this, we tested the hypothesis that ADHD symptoms are closely coupled in developmental terms with reactive aggression, more so than with proactive aggression with which it has been postulated to be only indirectly linked.Method:We used latent growth curve analysis to estimate the developmental relations between ADHD symptoms and subtypes of aggressive behavior in a normative sample of 1,571 youth (761 female, 810 male) measured from ages 7 to 15.Results:Individual ADHD trajectories were significantly and substantially correlated with individual trajectories in both aggressive subtypes; however, consistent with our hypothesis, the relation with reactive aggression was significantly stronger.Conclusion:Our study provides some of the first evidence for a differential relation between ADHD symptoms and aggression subtypes not only cross-sectionally but also in terms of their longitudinal developmental trajectories.
authors: University of Cambridge, UK.
authors: Aja Louise
authors: AL
authors: Murray
authors: University of Cambridge, UK.
authors: Ingrid
authors: I
authors: Obsuth
authors: University of Exeter Medical School, UK.
authors: Jan
authors: J
authors: Zirk-Sadowski
authors: Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETH), Switzerland.
authors: Denis
authors: D
authors: Ribeaud
authors: University of Cambridge, UK.
authors: Manuel
authors: M
authors: Eisner
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000294:Adolescent Behavior; D000374:Aggression; D001289:Attention Deficit Disorder with Hyperactivity / Q000453:epidemiology; D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male
keywords: attention deficit; hyperactivity; proactive aggression; reactive aggression