RT Article
T1 Developmental Trajectories of Aggressive and Non-Aggressive Conduct Problems
JF Journal of quantitative criminology
VO 16
IS 2
SP 199
OP 221
A1 Maughan, Barbara 1946-
A2 Pickles, Andrew
A2 Rowe, Richard
A2 Costello, E. Jane
A2 Angold, Adrian
LA English
YR 2000
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1764279530
AB Modeling the heterogeneous trajectories along which antisocial behaviordevelops in childhood and adolescence may contribute in important waysto understanding antecedents of offending in adult life. This paperexamines the development of aggressive and non-aggressive conduct problemsin the Great Smoky Mountains Study of Youth, a longitudinal study in thesoutheastern United States. Aggressive and non-aggressive conduct problemsof clinical severity, police contact and arrest, and family andenvironmental correlates were assessed in four annual interviews for789 boys and 630 girls aged 9–13 at first interview. The bestfitting latent class model identified three developmental trajectories:stable low problem levels, stable high problem levels, and declining levelsof conduct problems, for both aggressive and non-aggressive behaviors. Boyswere over-represented in the stable high trajectory class on the aggressivetrajectory, but sex differences in non-aggressive trajectories were lessmarked. The overlap between aggressive and non-aggressive trajectory classeswas quite limited. Both classifications showed strong associations withrisks of police contact and arrest in early adolescence, and with measuresof family adversity. The results are discussed in relation to developmentalmodels of conduct disorder and delinquency.
K1 Latent Class Model
K1 Trajectory Class
K1 Conduct Disorder
K1 Developmental Trajectory
K1 Conduct Problem
DO 10.1023/A:1007516622688