La conducta antisocial en la infancia. Evaluación de la prevalencia y datos preliminares para un estudio longitudinal

Résumé

Beaking in mind the importance of the problem of antisocial behaviour in childhood, not only as a desorder at that stage, but also as a risk factor for psychological disturbance and social maladjustment at adulthood. We have carried out this research with 363 boys and girls from 7 to 13 years old, belonging to 13 public schools of Salamanca and the province; Our global target was to detect the cases of antisocial behaviour and their future follow-up. Withing the context of this research we provide the date of the first part referred to the prevalence of the desorder in the whole group studied, as well as, to the indentification of some psychological variables which might be associated in the cases estimated. The results obtained show that 15,15% of the subjects of the group studied have got a pro-blem of antisocial behaviour. This prevalence is higher in the group of boys (9,64%) than in that of the girls (5,50%). In the some way, the differences between the average of the number of antisocial and delictive behaviour is highest in the group of boys, but it doesn’t reach statistical significance. The percentage of cases is superior for subjects who show school failure.