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Contextual social-cognitive mediators and child outcome: a test of the theoretical model in the Coping Power program.

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Lochman, JE; Wells, KC
Published in: Dev Psychopathol
2002

This study tests the contextual social-cognitive model, which has served as the basis for the Coping Power program, an indicated preventive intervention with at-risk preadolescent boys at the time of transition from elementary to middle school. The contextual social-cognitive model assumes that aggressive children have distortions in their social-cognitive appraisals and deficiencies in their social problem solving skills and that their parents have deficiencies in their parenting behaviors. To test this model, boys were identified as being at risk on the basis of fourth grade and fifth grade teachers' ratings of children's aggressive and disruptive behaviors, and interventions were delivered at the end of elementary school and the beginning of middle school. The intervention effect on delinquency, substance use, and school behavior outcomes was at least partially mediated through intervention-produced changes in child and parent variables that were targets for the intervention. These analyses provided unique support for the assumptions in the contextual social-cognitive model that changes in these mediating processes, even among high-risk boys, can have a meaningful impact on later negative outcomes.

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Dev Psychopathol

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0954-5794

Publication Date

2002

Volume

14

Issue

4

Start / End Page

945 / 967

Location

United States

Related Subject Headings

  • Social Behavior Disorders
  • Psychological Theory
  • Male
  • Humans
  • Developmental & Child Psychology
  • Cognition Disorders
  • Child Behavior Disorders
  • Child
  • Aggression
  • Adaptation, Psychological
 

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Lochman, J. E., & Wells, K. C. (2002). Contextual social-cognitive mediators and child outcome: a test of the theoretical model in the Coping Power program. Dev Psychopathol, 14(4), 945–967. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0954579402004157
Lochman, John E., and Karen C. Wells. “Contextual social-cognitive mediators and child outcome: a test of the theoretical model in the Coping Power program.Dev Psychopathol 14, no. 4 (2002): 945–67. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0954579402004157.
Lochman, John E., and Karen C. Wells. “Contextual social-cognitive mediators and child outcome: a test of the theoretical model in the Coping Power program.Dev Psychopathol, vol. 14, no. 4, 2002, pp. 945–67. Pubmed, doi:10.1017/s0954579402004157.
Journal cover image

Published In

Dev Psychopathol

DOI

ISSN

0954-5794

Publication Date

2002

Volume

14

Issue

4

Start / End Page

945 / 967

Location

United States

Related Subject Headings

  • Social Behavior Disorders
  • Psychological Theory
  • Male
  • Humans
  • Developmental & Child Psychology
  • Cognition Disorders
  • Child Behavior Disorders
  • Child
  • Aggression
  • Adaptation, Psychological