title: Peer status and the directionality of symptomatic behavior: prime social competence predictors of outcome for vulnerable children.
abstract: Social competence data from four target groups of vulnerable children--children of schizophrenic mothers; children of neurotic mothers; clinic children with externalizing symptomology; clinic children with internalizing symptomology--and from a large control group of their public school classmates, strongly suggest that peer-rated social incompetence and presence of externalizing behavior disorders are the best predictors of which vulnerable children run the greatest risk of poor adult outcome.
mesh_terms: D000275:Adjustment Disorders / Q000235:genetics; D000374:Aggression; D002648:Child; D002653:Child Behavior Disorders / Q000150:complications*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010379:Peer Group; D012306:Risk; D012559:Schizophrenia / Q000235:genetics; D012647:Self-Assessment; D012737:Sex Factors; D012917:Social Adjustment; D012934:Social Isolation; D012938:Social Perception