Comparison Of The Social Information Process Features Between The Hyperactivity Disorder Children And The Conduct Disorder Children

Hyperactivity Disorder is one of the most popular behavior disorders among youngsters and has high rates of comorbidity with Conduct Disorder. Some study showed that Hyperactivity Disorder and Conduct Disorder have the same external behaviors, etiology and social cognition features. However, what causes these two behavior disorders have the high rates of comorbidity is unknown.According to that the oppositional defiant aggressive conduct disorder is the main subtypes in child-hood and the aggressive behaviors are the main symptoms of the hyperactivity-impulsivity children, this thesis tried to answer three questions based on the social information processing model raised by Dodge.1. Explore the social information process features of Hyperactivity Disorder children and Conduct Disorder children by testing the implicit social cognition, aggressive behavior, hostile attribution style and positive-expectation for the behavior results.2. Explore the psychological mechanism which caused the high rates of comorbidity by comparing the social information processing features of Hyperactivity Disorder children and Conduct Disorder children.3. Explore what effect the implicit social cognition, aggressive behavior, hostile attribution style and positive-expectation for the behavior results set on the cause of aggressive behaviors.By using experiment methods, this thesis synthesized implicit social cognition research and survey of aggressive behavior, hostile attribution style and positive expectation for the behavior results, taking 15 Hyperactivity Disorder children, 17 Conduct Disorder children as the objects and 18 normal children as the contrasts, in order to inquire whether there have some common or different features in the social information processing course between these two behavior disorders. The results were as followed:4. Hyperactivity Disorder children and Conduct Disorder children had the some similar features of implicit social cognition, preferring to the altruistic words.5. Hyperactivity Disorder children and Conduct Disorder children had same social information processing styles.6. Altruistic words preference, hostile attribution and positive expectation for the behavior results had remarkable correlation with the aggressive behaviors.