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Witvliet, Miranda; van Lier, Pol A. C.; Cuijpers, Pim; Koot, Hans M. – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 2009
In this study, the authors used a randomized controlled trial to explore the link between having positive peer relations and externalizing outcomes in 758 children followed from kindergarten to the end of 2nd grade. Children were randomly assigned to the Good Behavior Game (GBG), a universal classroom-based preventive intervention, or a control…
Descriptors: Behavior Development, Intervention, Peer Relationship, Kindergarten
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Schonberg, Michael A.; Shaw, Daniel S. – Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 2007
The joint trajectory analysis version of Nagin's ("Group-based modeling of development." Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2005) semiparametric, group-based approach for modeling trajectories was used to assess how boy's trajectories of conduct problems (CP) and neighborhood SES covaried from ages 5 to 12. Participants were…
Descriptors: Economically Disadvantaged, Risk, Neighborhoods, Males
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Fite, Paula J.; Colder, Craig R.; Lochman, John E.; Wells, Karen C. – Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, 2006
The current study examined the mutual influence of parenting and boys' externalizing behavior from 4th to 8th grade, how these relationships change as children develop, and the stability of parenting and child behavior in a sample of 122 boys. Child behavior predicted poor parental monitoring at 6th and 7th grade and inconsistent discipline at all…
Descriptors: Child Rearing, Behavior Problems, Males, Parent Child Relationship
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Schaeffer, Cindy M.; Petras, Hanno; Ialongo, Nicholas; Poduska, Jeanne; Kellam, Sheppard – Developmental Psychology, 2003
The present study used general growth mixture modeling to identify pathways of antisocial behavior development within an epidemiological sample of urban, primarily African American boys. Teacher-rated aggression, measured longitudinally from 1st to 7th grade, was used to define growth trajectories. Three high-risk trajectories (chronic high,…
Descriptors: Males, Aggression, African American Children, Urban Youth