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Developmental trajectories of childhood disruptive behaviors and adolescent delinquency: a six-site, cross-national study.

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Broidy, LM; Nagin, DS; Tremblay, RE; Bates, JE; Brame, B; Dodge, KA; Fergusson, D; Horwood, JL; Loeber, R; Laird, R; Lynam, DR; Moffitt, TE ...
Published in: Developmental psychology
March 2003

This study used data from 6 sites and 3 countries to examine the developmental course of physical aggression in childhood and to analyze its linkage to violent and nonviolent offending outcomes in adolescence. The results indicate that among boys there is continuity in problem behavior from childhood to adolescence and that such continuity is especially acute when early problem behavior takes the form of physical aggression. Chronic physical aggression during the elementary school years specifically increases the risk for continued physical violence as well as other nonviolent forms of delinquency during adolescence. However, this conclusion is reserved primarily for boys, because the results indicate no clear linkage between childhood physical aggression and adolescent offending among female samples despite notable similarities across male and female samples in the developmental course of physical aggression in childhood.

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Developmental psychology

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EISSN

1939-0599

ISSN

0012-1649

Publication Date

March 2003

Volume

39

Issue

2

Start / End Page

222 / 245

Related Subject Headings

  • Models, Psychological
  • Male
  • Juvenile Delinquency
  • Humans
  • Follow-Up Studies
  • Female
  • Developmental & Child Psychology
  • Child, Preschool
  • Child
  • Attention Deficit and Disruptive Behavior Disorders
 

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Broidy, L. M., Nagin, D. S., Tremblay, R. E., Bates, J. E., Brame, B., Dodge, K. A., … Vitaro, F. (2003). Developmental trajectories of childhood disruptive behaviors and adolescent delinquency: a six-site, cross-national study. Developmental Psychology, 39(2), 222–245. https://doi.org/10.1037//0012-1649.39.2.222
Broidy, Lisa M., Daniel S. Nagin, Richard E. Tremblay, John E. Bates, Bobby Brame, Kenneth A. Dodge, David Fergusson, et al. “Developmental trajectories of childhood disruptive behaviors and adolescent delinquency: a six-site, cross-national study.Developmental Psychology 39, no. 2 (March 2003): 222–45. https://doi.org/10.1037//0012-1649.39.2.222.
Broidy LM, Nagin DS, Tremblay RE, Bates JE, Brame B, Dodge KA, et al. Developmental trajectories of childhood disruptive behaviors and adolescent delinquency: a six-site, cross-national study. Developmental psychology. 2003 Mar;39(2):222–45.
Broidy, Lisa M., et al. “Developmental trajectories of childhood disruptive behaviors and adolescent delinquency: a six-site, cross-national study.Developmental Psychology, vol. 39, no. 2, Mar. 2003, pp. 222–45. Epmc, doi:10.1037//0012-1649.39.2.222.
Broidy LM, Nagin DS, Tremblay RE, Bates JE, Brame B, Dodge KA, Fergusson D, Horwood JL, Loeber R, Laird R, Lynam DR, Moffitt TE, Pettit GS, Vitaro F. Developmental trajectories of childhood disruptive behaviors and adolescent delinquency: a six-site, cross-national study. Developmental psychology. 2003 Mar;39(2):222–245.

Published In

Developmental psychology

DOI

EISSN

1939-0599

ISSN

0012-1649

Publication Date

March 2003

Volume

39

Issue

2

Start / End Page

222 / 245

Related Subject Headings

  • Models, Psychological
  • Male
  • Juvenile Delinquency
  • Humans
  • Follow-Up Studies
  • Female
  • Developmental & Child Psychology
  • Child, Preschool
  • Child
  • Attention Deficit and Disruptive Behavior Disorders