title: Protective factors related to antisocial behavior trajectories.
abstract: A group of 115 fifth- and sixth-grade Latino students were surveyed at the beginning and the end of the school year before their transition to middle or junior-high school about their engagement in antisocial behaviors and about individual, social, and behavioral protective factors. The best predictors of decreases in antisocial behavior for these students, above and beyond variance for initial ratings and gender, were student perceptions of social support, parent supervision, and classroom participation. The importance of keeping students engaged in school academic work as a protection against antisocial behavior is emphasized as well as the need to help students gain skills necessary to access support for this academic work.
authors.affiliation: School of Public Policy and Social Research, University of California, Santa Barbara 90095-1656, USA.
authors.forename: Gale M
authors.initials: GM
authors.lastname: Morrison
authors.forename: Laurel
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Robertson
authors.forename: Beth
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Laurie
authors.forename: Jennifer
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Kelly
mesh_terms: D000987:Antisocial Personality Disorder / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000208:ethnology; D002648:Child; D006630:Hispanic or Latino / Q000523:psychology; D006801:Humans; D011340:Problem Solving