Developmental trajectories of childhood disruptive behaviors and adolescent delinquency: A six-site, cross-national study.

Broidy, Lisa M., Nagin, Daniel S., Tremblay, Richard E., Bates, John E., Brame, Bobby, Dodge, Kenneth A., Fergusson, David, Horwood, John L. +6 more·2003·Developmental Psychology
DOI 10.1037//0012-1649.39.2.222

Abstract

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.

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