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T H Ollendick

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PubMed1975

Probability learning in retarded children with differing histories of success and failure in shcool.

The effects of school-induced success and failure experiences on the probability-learning performances of retarded children were investigated. In previous laboratory research, the hypotheses has been suggested that failure experiences would lead to greater maximization, less patterning, and less shifting of responses than success experiences. Fifteen retarded children exposed to repeated failure in the classroom, 15 retarded children exposed to a relatively high level of success in special-education classes, and 15 nonretarded children served as subjects. All subjects were matched for MA. The hypothesis suggesting that the laboratory findings generalized to the classroom was confirmed. In addition, it was found that locus of control and need for achievement were significant correlates of probability-learning performance. However, only locus of control differentiated the subject groups.

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Does anxiety mitigate the behavioral expression of severe conduct disorder in delinquent youths?

The purpose of this article is to examine the purported attenuating effects of comorbid anxiety on conduct disturbance in a sample of youths exhibiting severe Conduct Disorder (CD). Further, we examined the differential expression of CD and comorbid anxiety in male and female youths. Seventy-nine incarcerated youths between the ages of 12 and 19 were interviewed using the Diagnostic Interview Schedule for Children. Youths were identified who exhibited CD and CD plus an anxiety disorder. In contrast to previous findings with younger, less seriously disturbed male subjects, no overall differences were found between CD anxious and CD nonanxious youths in terms of age of first offense and overall number and severity of delinquent acts. Moreover, no differences were found between males and females, and gender did not moderate the effects of comorbidity anxiety on outcome measures. Findings suggest purported mitigating effects of anxiety on conduct disturbance may be attenuated in severe forms of CD and support the notion that comorbidity across internalizing and externalizing domains of child and adolescent psychopathology may differentially impact clinical presentation of disordered behavior depending on the severity of externalizing behavioral disturbance.

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