Autonomic nervous system (ANS) activity, personality characteristics and disruptive behaviour in girls.

Disruptive behaviour in school, as defined by teachers, was examined in 44 unselected girls, aged 12-13 years, attending two private schools. Except for the psychoticism (P) scale of the Junior Eysenck Personality Inventory (JEPI), such conduct did not appear to be related to the personality characteristics as measured by the JEPI. Autonomic nervous system activity, indexed here by heart rate measures, successfully discriminated between the three behaviourally defined groups.

Refractory behaviour at school in normal adolescent males in relation to psychopathy and early experience.

Two studies of refractory behaviour in school of adolescent boys are reported. A close association between scores on the Psychopathic Deviant Scale (Pd) of the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Scale (M.M.