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Response decision processes and externalizing behavior problems in adolescents.

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Fontaine, RG; Burks, VS; Dodge, KA
Published in: Development and Psychopathology
January 2002

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.

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Development and Psychopathology

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EISSN

1469-2198

ISSN

0954-5794

Publication Date

January 2002

Volume

14

Issue

1

Start / End Page

107 / 122

Related Subject Headings

  • Sociometric Techniques
  • Social Adjustment
  • Personality Assessment
  • Peer Group
  • Parent-Child Relations
  • Male
  • Internal-External Control
  • Individuation
  • Humans
  • Hostility
 

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Fontaine, R. G., Burks, V. S., & Dodge, K. A. (2002). Response decision processes and externalizing behavior problems in adolescents. Development and Psychopathology, 14(1), 107–122. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0954579402001062
Fontaine, Reid Griffith, Virginia Salzer Burks, and Kenneth A. Dodge. “Response decision processes and externalizing behavior problems in adolescents.Development and Psychopathology 14, no. 1 (January 2002): 107–22. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0954579402001062.
Fontaine RG, Burks VS, Dodge KA. Response decision processes and externalizing behavior problems in adolescents. Development and Psychopathology. 2002 Jan;14(1):107–22.
Fontaine, Reid Griffith, et al. “Response decision processes and externalizing behavior problems in adolescents.Development and Psychopathology, vol. 14, no. 1, Jan. 2002, pp. 107–22. Epmc, doi:10.1017/s0954579402001062.
Fontaine RG, Burks VS, Dodge KA. Response decision processes and externalizing behavior problems in adolescents. Development and Psychopathology. 2002 Jan;14(1):107–122.
Journal cover image

Published In

Development and Psychopathology

DOI

EISSN

1469-2198

ISSN

0954-5794

Publication Date

January 2002

Volume

14

Issue

1

Start / End Page

107 / 122

Related Subject Headings

  • Sociometric Techniques
  • Social Adjustment
  • Personality Assessment
  • Peer Group
  • Parent-Child Relations
  • Male
  • Internal-External Control
  • Individuation
  • Humans
  • Hostility