PREVALENCE OF MULTIPLY CONTROLLED PROBLEM BEHAVIOR

• Published in: Journal of applied behavior analysis Vol. 44; no. 3; pp. 593 - 597
• Main Authors: Beavers, Gracie A., Iwata, Brian A.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford, UK Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01.09.2011; Society for the Experimental Analysis of Behavior; The Society for the Experimental Analysis of Behavior
• Subjects: Adult and adolescent clinical studies; Applied behavior analysis; Behavior; Behavior Patterns; Behavior Problems; Behavioral Science Research; Biological and medical sciences; Child; Child Behavior Disorders - classification; Child Behavior Disorders - epidemiology; Databases, Bibliographic - statistics & numerical data; Evaluation Problems; Female; functional analysis; Functional Behavioral Assessment; Humans; Literature Reviews; Male; Measurement; Measurement Techniques; Medical sciences; Miscellaneous; multiple control; multiple response topographies; Negative Reinforcement; Prevalence; Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry; Psychometrics; Psychopathology. Psychiatry; Reinforcement; Reinforcement (Psychology); Research Reports; Self Destructive Behavior; Studies; Teenagers; Topography; Human; Prevalence; Reinforcement; multiple response topographies; Functional analysis; multiple control; Epidemiology; Behavioral disorder; functional analysis
• ISSN: 0021-8855; 1938-3703; 1938-3703
• DOI: 10.1901/jaba.2011.44-593

We examined articles in the Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis in which results of functional analyses indicated that problem behavior was maintained by multiple sources of reinforcement. Data for 88 (16.9%) of 521 subjects reported in 168 studies met the criteria for multiple control. Data for 11 subjects (2.1%) involved a single response topography, whereas data for 77 subjects involved multiple, collapsed response topographies (14.8% of the total [521 cases] or 87.5% of the multiple control cases), suggesting that when multiple control is observed, it often may be a by‐product of response aggregation during assessment.