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The Difficulty of Maintaining Positive Intervention Effects: A Look at Disruptive Behavior, Deviant Peer Relations, and Social Skills during the Middle School Years
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Lochman, John E.; Bierman, Karen L.; Coie, John D.; Dodge, Kenneth A.; Greenberg, Mark T.; McMahon, Robert J.; Pinderhughes, Ellen E. – Journal of Early Adolescence, 2010
This paper examines the effects of the Fast Track preventive intervention on youths' functioning in three domains: disruptive behavior problems, involvement with deviant peers, and social skills during the middle school years. Eight hundred ninety-one children had been randomly assigned by sets of schools within four sites to intervention (n =…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Intervention, Prevention, Antisocial Behavior
A Developmental Process Analysis of Cross-Generational Continuity in Educational Attainment
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Pettit, Gregory S.; Yu, Tianyi; Dodge, Kenneth A.; Bates, John E. – Merrill-Palmer Quarterly: Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2009
In this prospective longitudinal study (N = 585) we examined intergenerational links in level of educational attainment. Of particular interest was whether family background characteristics, parenting in early childhood and early adolescence, and school adjustment and performance in middle childhood accounted for (i.e., mediated) continuity and…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Family Characteristics, Educational Attainment, Child Rearing