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Parents as Moderators of the Impact of School Norms and Peer Influences on Aggression in Middle School Students
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Farrell, Albert D.; Henry, David B.; Mays, Sally A.; Schoeny, Michael E. – Child Development, 2011
This study examined parenting variables as protective factors to reduce the influence of school and peer risk factors on adolescents' aggression. Five waves of data spanning 3 years were collected from 5,581 students at 37 schools who began the 6th grade in 2001 or 2002. Class-level and perceived school norms supporting aggression, delinquent peer…
Descriptors: Aggression, Parent Participation, Child Rearing, At Risk Persons
Trajectories of Boys' Physical Aggression, Opposition, and Hyperactivity on the Path to Physically Violent and Nonviolent Juvenile Delinquency.
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Nagin, Daniel; Tremblay, Richard E. – Child Development, 1999
Used semi-parametric mixture model with boys assessed repeatedly from 6 to 15 years to approximate a continuous distribution of developmental trajectories for aggression, opposition, and hyperactivity. Found that a chronic oppositional trajectory, with other trajectories held constant, led to covert delinquency only. A chronic physical aggression…
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Adolescents, Aggression, Behavior Problems
The Effects of Parental Psychopathology and Maltreatment on Child Behavior: A Test of the Dianthesis-Stress Model.
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Walker, Elaine; And Others – Child Development, 1989
Examined effects of parental psychopathology and maltreatment on behavior of 102 children with mean ages of 9.75 years. Parental psychiatric status and maltreatment interacted significantly, so that offspring of schizophrenic parents from maltreating families showed increases in externalized behavior problems over time. (RJC)
Descriptors: Aggression, Behavior Problems, Child Abuse, Child Development
Preadolescent Peer Status, Aggression, and School Adjustment as Predictors of Externalizing Problems in Adolescence.
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Kupersmidt, Janis B.; Coie, John D. – Child Development, 1990
Considered (1) the relation between peer socioeconomic status and specific negative outcomes; (2) the possibility that sociometric status serves as a marker variable for negative outcomes; (3) the possibility that rejected children experience more types of problems during adolescence than other children; and (4) which of six predictor variables…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Adolescents, Aggression, Delinquency
Disruptiveness, Friends' Characteristics, and Delinquency in Early Adolescence: A Test of Two Competing Models of Development.
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Vitaro, Frank; Tremblay, Richard E.; Kerr, Margaret; Pagani, Linda; Bukowski, William M. – Child Development, 1997
Tested the individual characteristics and deviant peer association theoretical models of friends' influence on the development of delinquency in disruptive boys. Found that moderately disruptive boys with aggressive-disturbing friends were more delinquent at age 13 than other subgroups of moderately disruptive boys. Highly disruptive and…
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Aggression, Conformity, Delinquency
Sexual Activity and Problem Behaviors among Black, Urban Adolescents.
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Ensminger, Margaret E. – Child Development, 1990
Studied sexual activity, substance use, and assault among Black children from first grade through age 17. Adolescents with multiple problems differed from others in behavior and parental supervision. Males who only engaged in sexual activity or who had no problems were similar; but females in the same categories differed in family origins. (BC)
Descriptors: Academic Failure, Adolescents, Aggression, Behavior Problems