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. 2003 Mar;39(2):222-45.
doi: 10.1037//0012-1649.39.2.222.

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

Lisa M Broidy  1 , Daniel S Nagin, Richard E Tremblay, John E Bates, Bobby Brame, Kenneth A Dodge, David Fergusson, John L Horwood, Rolf Loeber, Robert Laird, Donald R Lynam, Terrie E Moffitt, Gregory S Pettit, Frank Vitaro
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Developmental trajectories of childhood disruptive behaviors and adolescent delinquency: a six-site, cross-national study

Lisa M Broidy et al. Dev Psychol. 2003 Mar.

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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Physical aggression trends for boys. CDP = Child Development Project.
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Bivariate and multivariate regression models.
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Montreal: Male trajectories of physical aggression. pred = predicted.
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Quebec: Male trajectories of physical aggression. pred = predicted.
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Christchurch: Male trajectories of physical aggression. pred = predicted.
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Dunedin: Male trajectories of physical aggression. pred = predicted.
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Pittsburgh: Male trajectories of physical aggression. pred = predicted.
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Child Development Project: Male trajectories of physical aggression. pred = predicted.
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Quebec: Female trajectories of physical aggression. pred = predicted.
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Christchurch: Female trajectories of physical aggression. pred = predicted.
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Dunedin: Female trajectories of physical aggression. pred = predicted.
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Child Development Project: Female trajectories of physical aggression. pred = predicted.
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