Conduct problems in Russian adolescents: the role of personality and parental rearing

The purpose of the present study was 1) to assess the predictive value of c onduct problems prior to the age of 12 for the severity of antisocial behav iour during; adolescence, and 2) to investigate the relationships between p ersonality traits/parental rearing and childhood conduct problems/teenage a ntisocial behaviour. A group of 193 delinquents was assessed by means of th e Antisocial Behavior Checklist (ABC), the Retrospective Childhood Problems (RETROPROB), the Temperament and Character Inventory (TCI) and the EMBU qu estionnaire on parental rearing. The extreme groups of delinquents as defin ed by childhood conduct problems, differed significantly on the experience of a rejecting father and a self-directed character. Furthermore, some spec ific predictive patterns for current antisocial behaviour by childhood cond uct disorder and both personality dimensions and parental rearing factors e merged. The findings are discussed in the light of the interactive nature o f relations between personality and parental rearing in the development of antisocial behaviour among adolescents.