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Wahl, Klaus; Metzner, Cornelia – Journal of Child and Family Studies, 2012
The development of aggressiveness between 5 and 17 years and some parental influences on this development were analyzed using data from Germany. International studies have shown a "camel humps" curve, i.e., a peak of aggression of children (primarily boys) between 2 and 4 years and a second peak of antisocial or aggressive behavior of…
Descriptors: Social Status, Aggression, Daughters, Parenting Styles
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Mitchell, Katherine Stamps; Booth, Alan; King, Valarie – Journal of Marriage and Family, 2009
This study examined sons' and daughters' involvement with nonresident fathers and associated outcomes (N = 4,663). Results indicated that sons and daughters reported equal involvement with nonresident fathers on most measures of father investment, although sons reported more overnight visits, sports, and movies and feeling closer to their fathers…
Descriptors: Daughters, Fathers, Adolescents, Sons
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van Meurs, Inge; Reef, Joni; Verhulst, Frank C.; van der Ende, Jan – Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 2009
The scores of 4- to 16-year-olds on a child behavior checklist made in 1983 is compared with those of their 6- to 18-year-old offsprings that were done in 2007. It is found that most forms of problem behavior in children were predicted by their parent's behavior as children and that continuity is stronger in mothers than fathers and in sons than…
Descriptors: Check Lists, Behavior Problems, Daughters, Child Behavior
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Ammerman, Robert T; And Others – Journal of Child & Adolescent Substance Abuse, 1994
This study examined parental reports of dissatisfaction with boys of fathers without a history of substance abuse and those fathers with such a history. Higher dissatisfaction ratings by both mothers and fathers and other indicators of dysfunction were found in the families in which fathers had a history of substance abuse. (LKS)
Descriptors: At Risk Persons, Behavior Problems, Delinquency, Family Characteristics
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Loukas, Alexandra; Piejak, Lisa A.; Bingham, C. Raymond; Fitzgerald, Hiram E.; Zucker, Robert A. – Family Relations, 2001
Structural equation modeling was used to test the hypothesis that parental distress would mediate relations between parental lifetime alcohol and physical health problems and child behavior problems. Results indicated that sons of parents with alcohol and physical health problems are at elevated risk for behavior problems, partly related to…
Descriptors: Alcohol Abuse, Alcoholism, At Risk Persons, Behavior Problems
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Wakschlag, Lauren S.; Gordon, Rachel A.; Lahey, Benjamin B.; Loeber, Rolf; Green, Stephanie M.; Leventhal, Bennett L. – Journal of Research on Adolescence, 2000
Studied multigenerational links between maternal history of problem behavior, mother's age at birth of first child, and child conduct disorder in boys. Found that maternal age at first birth was associated with child's conduct disorder, and maternal history of problem behavior was also associated with early maternal age at first birth and the…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Age, Attention Deficit Disorders, Behavior Disorders