Pathways to deviance: developmental trajectories of externalizing problems in dutch youth
Year: 1997
Type: dissertation
Abstract: Externalizing behaviors are the most common and persistent forms of childhood problem\nbehaviors (Campbell, 1995) and are both concurrently and prospectively related to impaired\nfunctioning in many domains (Rutter, Giller, & Hagell, 1998). Studies indicated that children\nand adolescents with conduct problems are at increased risk for various types of\npsychopathology in adulthood (Bardone, Moffitt, Caspi, Dickson, & Silva, 1996; Farrington,\n1999; Fergusson, Lynskey, & Horwood, 1996; Keenan, Loeber, & Green, 1999; Moffitt,\nCaspi, Harrington, & Milne, 2002; Zoccolillo, 1993), delinquency (Broidy et al., 2003;\nFergusson & Horwood, 2002), and impaired social functioning (Achenbach, Howell,\nMcConaughy, & Stanger, 1998; Chassin, Pitts, & DeLucia, 1999). At the same time\nexternalizing behaviors change so much in expression and frequency over the course of\ndevelopment that studies at any single time-point in development will provide only limited\ninformation or misrepresent the phenomenon (Kraemer, Yesavage, Taylor, & Kupfer, 2000).\nTherefore there is a growing consensus that externalizing behavior must be studied from a\ndevelopmental perspective (Costello & Angold, 2000).
Author: Ilja L. Bongers
Language: English
Subfield: Clinical Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2102701683