Four groups of 20 adolescent boys were formed on the basis of self-report ratings of antisocial behavior and teachers' ratings of classroom misbehavior. Significant differences on Eysenck's psychoticism scale were obtained between both high vs low antisocial behavior groups and well behaved vs badly behaved teacher-rated groups. The interaction was not significant.
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