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Unstructured Youth Recreation Centre Participation and Antisocial Behaviour Development: Selection Influences and the Moderating Role of Antisocial Peers
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Mahoney, Joseph L.; Stattin, Hakan; Lord, Heather – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2004
This study involves a two-year longitudinal investigation of adolescent participation in unstructured youth recreation centres and the development of antisocial behaviour. Participants were 1163 adolescents who represented 92% of all eighth-grade students in the town of Orebro, Sweden, during the fall of 1999. Antisocial young people and those…
Descriptors: School Activities, Antisocial Behavior, Adolescents, Social Environment
ADHD Symptoms and Peer Relations of Children in a Community Sample: Examining Associated Problems, Self-Perceptions, and Gender Differences
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Diamantopoulou, Sofia; Henricsson, Lisbeth; Rydell, Ann-Margret – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2005
This study examined children's peer relations in relation to gender, symptoms of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), associated behaviour problems, prosociality, and self-perceptions, in a community sample. Six hundred and thirty-five 12-year-old children (314 girls) provided peer nominations and rated feelings of loneliness and…
Descriptors: Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Gender Differences, Psychological Patterns, Symptoms (Individual Disorders)