The Personality Pattern of Hyperactive Boys: Adjustments in Internality, Self-Esteem, and Anxiety
Description:
During the past 80 years, similar descriptions of a hyperactive behavior pattern in children have appeared in medical, educational, and psychological literature. Hyperactivity has been conceptualized as a character disorder, an organic disorder, and, most recently, as a behavior disorder. In this study, hyperactivity was explained in interactional terms, using Rotter's social learning theory of personality. Little consideration has been given in research to the influence of an abnormally high a…
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Date:
December 1981
Creator:
Bolton, Ronald Eugene
Partner:
UNT Libraries