Trajectories of Boys' Physical Aggression, Opposition, and Hyperactivity on the Path to Physically Violent and Nonviolent Juvenile Delinquency

• Published in: Child development Vol. 70; no. 5; pp. 1181 - 1196
• Main Authors: Nagin, Daniel, Tremblay, Richard E.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, USA and Oxford, UK Blackwell Publishers Inc 01.09.1999; Blackwell Publishers; Blackwell; University of Chicago Press for the Society for Research in Child Development, etc; Blackwell Publishing Ltd
• Subjects: Adolescence; Adolescent; Adolescent Development; Adolescents; Adults; Aggression; Aggression - psychology; Aggressiveness; Attention Deficit Disorder with Hyperactivity - psychology; Behavior Problems; Biological and medical sciences; Boys; Child; Child clinical studies; Child Development; Childhood; Children; Delinquency; Development; Externalization; Externalizing behaviour; Human aggression; Humans; Hyperactivity; Juvenile Delinquency; Larceny; Longitudinal Studies; Male; Males; Medical sciences; Models, Psychological; Oppositional Behavior; Personality and Social Development; Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry; Psychopathology. Psychiatry; Social behavior disorders; Trajectories; Violence; Violent crimes; Human; Hyperactivity; Violence; Conduct disorder; Male; School age; Etiology; Follow up study; Juvenile delinquency; Adolescent; Risk factor; Social behavior disorder; Child; Antecedent
• ISSN: 0009-3920; 1467-8624
• DOI: 10.1111/1467-8624.00086

A semi-parametric mixture model was used with a sample of 1,037 boys assessed repeatedly from 6 to 15 years of age to approximate a continuous distribution of developmental trajectories for three externalizing behaviors. Regression models were then used to determine which trajectories best predicted...