CONDUCT DISORDER AND PERSONALITY

A sample of children with a diagnosis of conduct disorder and a sample of children from a tendon comprehensive school were investigated. Thr ee questionnaires were administered to assess personality, impulsivene ss and anxiety. Of the personality measures contained within the Junio r Eysenck Personality Questionnaire only Psychoticism was found to sig nificantly differentiate the conduct disorder and normal control sampl es. The Impulsiveness scale of the I, also differentiated the two samp les. There were no significant differences between the two samples in their scores on the anxiety scale of the ''What I Think and Feel''. Th e findings are discussed in relation to theories of personality propos ed by Eysenck and Eysenck (1969), Gray (1987) and Quay (1988). (C) 199 8 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.