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Peer reviewedLi, Fuzhong; Duncan, Terry E.; Duncan, Susan C.; Acock, Alan – Structural Equation Modeling, 2001
Presents a new approach that extends conventional random coefficient growth models to incorporate a categorical latent trajectory variable representing latent classes or mixtures. Provides a didactic example of this new methodology using adolescent alcohol use data and discusses the method as a tool for mapping hypotheses of development onto…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Drinking, Individual Development, Longitudinal Studies
Direct linkBrody, Gene H.; McBride Murry, Velma; McNair, Lily; Chen, Yi-Fu; Gibbons, Frederick X.; Gerrard, Meg; Ashby Wills, Thomas – Journal of Research on Adolescence, 2005
A randomized prevention trial was conducted contrasting families who took part in the Strong African American Families Program (SAAF), a preventive intervention for rural African American mothers and their 11-year-olds, with control families. SAAF is based on a conceptual model positing that changes in intervention-targeted parenting behaviors…
Descriptors: Child Rearing, Structural Equation Models, Sexuality, Drinking
