Boys are more likely to dislay higher levels of oppositional behavior during normative development than girls. These gender gaps close as individuals mature. 

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- Noncompliance/ defiant behavior 
- Antisocial/ delinquent behavior (age dependent)
- Agressive
- Argumentative/ irritable
- Callous-unemotional traits
- Externalizing and/or internalizing behavior
- Attentional difficulties
- Impulsivity
- Vindictiveness



General Behaviors Associated with ODD


Matthys, & Lochman, J. E. (2017). Oppositional defiant disorder and conduct disorder in childhood (Second edition.). Wiley Blackwell.


Oppositional defiant disorder and conduct disorder in childhood 

- Proactive or reactive:
- Physical
- Emotional 
- Verbal


Variations of Aggression

Noncompliance occurs when the individual displays an adverse response to a given command outside the appropriate range of time.

Operationalizing Noncompliance 

Responding to a direct request by changing one’s behavior

Compliance

Gender and Oppositional Behavior 

The callous-unemotional (CU) factor can be described as impulsivity, deviance, and inflated self-importance. CU factor can also be described as a lack of concern for others’ feelings, disregard for responsibilities, insincerity, lacking guilt, lying, and shallow behavior. 

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