Developmental trajectories of childhood disruptive behaviors and adolescent delinquency: a six-site, cross-national study.
This study used data from 6 sites and 3 countries to examine the developmental course of physical aggression in childhood and to analyze its linkage to violent and nonviolent offending outcomes in adolescence. The results indicate that among boys there is continuity in problem behavior from childhood to adolescence and that such continuity is especially acute when early problem behavior takes the form of physical aggression. Chronic physical aggression during the elementary school years specifically increases the risk for continued physical violence as well as other nonviolent forms of delinquency during adolescence. However, this conclusion is reserved primarily for boys, because the results indicate no clear linkage between childhood physical aggression and adolescent offending among female samples despite notable similarities across male and female samples in the developmental course of physical aggression in childhood.
Broidy
Lisa M
LM
Department of Sociology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque 87131, USA. lbroidy@unm.edu
Nagin
Daniel S
DS
Tremblay
Richard E
RE
Bates
John E
JE
Brame
Bobby
B
Dodge
Kenneth A
KA
Fergusson
David
D
Horwood
John L
JL
Loeber
Rolf
R
Laird
Robert
R
Lynam
Donald R
DR
Moffitt
Terrie E
TE
Pettit
Gregory S
GS
Vitaro
Frank
F
D000293:Adolescent; D019958:Attention Deficit and Disruptive Behavior Disorders / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000523:psychology*; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D007604:Juvenile Delinquency / Q000523:psychology* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D008297:Male; D008960:Models, Psychological