in jail, or to be involved in fights. Women were not found to differ from men in endorsing feelings of guilt or remorse. However, women were more likely than males to run away from home and to endorse “hitting someone” and having failed financial and/or family responsibilities. One recent study observed that women committed fewer antisocial acts involving vs. not involving police (Sher et al., 2015). That study, as well as the present study, are consistent with the finding by the Epidemiological Catchment Area (ECA) survey that showed that women with ASPD had fewer ASPD symptoms than men (Regier et al., 1990; Robins and Regier, 1991). Several studies also suggest that antisocial girls have a later onset of childhood conduct problems and are less likely to engage in aggressive acts compared to their male counterparts (Kim-Cohen et al., 2005; Silverthorn and Frick, 1999) as we also demonstrated in our study. However, our study suggests that running away from home and failed financial and family responsibility may actually occur more often in women than men, thus providing some support for a sexually dimorphic symptom profile but a similar clinical course between the sexes in ASPD symptoms.
