Actitudes hacia la violencia, impulsividad, estilos parentales y conducta externalizada en adolescentes: Comparación entre una muestra de población general y una muestra clínica

Abstract

Externalizing Behavior Disorders are one of the most common mental health problems among adolescents, and they have a severe impact on family, school, and social settings. The purpose of this study was to compare adolescents from the general population without an externalizing behavior diagnosis with adolescents from a clinical sample in a series of variables identified as predictors of externalizing behavior. The study included adolescents aged between 12-15 years from the Region of Murcia. A cross-sectional, descriptive, analytical design was used with a sample of 327 adolescents, who were distributed as follows: (a) Clinical Group, made up of 59 participants, and (b) General Group, made up of 268 adolescents.The results of this study indicate that externalizing behavior is mainly relat-ed to Impulsivity, although modulated by factors related to the adolescent's family and cultural socialization. The adolescents of the clinical sample de-scribed the parental styles they received as more authoritarian and less inductive than those of the adolescents from the general population.