Response decision processes and externalizing behavior problems in adolescents.
Published
Journal Article
Externalizing behavior problems of 124 adolescents were assessed across Grades 7-11. In Grade 9, participants were also assessed across social-cognitive domains after imagining themselves as the object of provocations portrayed in six videotaped vignettes. Participants responded to vignette-based questions representing multiple processes of the response decision step of social information processing. Phase 1 of our investigation supported a two-factor model of the response evaluation process of response decision (response valuation and outcome expectancy). Phase 2 showed significant relations between the set of these response decision processes, as well as response selection, measured in Grade 9 and (a) externalizing behavior in Grade 9 and (b) externalizing behavior in Grades 10-11, even after controlling externalizing behavior in Grades 7-8. These findings suggest that on-line behavioral judgments about aggression play a crucial role in the maintenance and growth of aggressive response tendencies in adolescence.
Full Text
Duke Authors
Cited Authors
- Fontaine, RG; Burks, VS; Dodge, KA
Published Date
- January 2002
Published In
Volume / Issue
- 14 / 1
Start / End Page
- 107 - 122
PubMed ID
- 11893088
Pubmed Central ID
- 11893088
Electronic International Standard Serial Number (EISSN)
- 1469-2198
International Standard Serial Number (ISSN)
- 0954-5794
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
- 10.1017/s0954579402001062
Language
- eng