@article{ref1,
title="Overt categorical aggression in referred children and adolescents",
journal="Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry",
year="1998",
author="Connor, Daniel F. and Melloni, R. H. and Harrison, R. J.",
volume="37",
number="1",
pages="66-73",
abstract="OBJECTIVE: To investigate descriptive and predictive correlates of aggression in children and adolescents who exhibit a high frequency of daily physical assault after admission to a structured residential treatment program and to examine correlations between subcategories of overt categorical aggression (OCA) in the same population. METHOD: Fifty-one admissions to a residential treatment program were assessed for frequency of physical assault after admission; analyses were corrected for length of stay. Patients with a high frequency of daily assault were compared with patients with a low frequency of daily assault on variables assessing demographics, history, family, concurrent behavior, treatment, and outcome. RESULTS: A high prevalence of OCA was found in this sample. Variables assessing history and concurrent behavior were significantly associated and predictive of subjects exhibiting a high frequency of daily physical assault after admission. Physical assault was significantly correlated with verbal aggression, property destruction, and self-injurious behavior. CONCLUSIONS: These findings support the distinctiveness of OCA as a separate subtype of aggression encompassing four subcategories. Further research on treatment, outcome, and associated comorbidity of OCA is warranted.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0890-8567",
doi="10.1097/00004583-199801000-00019",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/00004583-199801000-00019"
}