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Psychosocial Variables as Prospective Predictors of Violent Events among Adolescents.

Year: 1994

Type: article

Abstract: Violent events are main causes of mortality among children and include intentional (e.g., homicide) and unintentional (e.g., accidents) circumstances. This study investigated the prediction of the self-reported occurrence of 14 violent events among eighth-grade youth from psychosocial variables measured in these same youth in seventh grade. Psychosocial variables ineluded tobacco and alcohol use, demographic variables, interpersonal variables such as family conflict, and intrapersonal variables such as risk taking. An iterative procedure, involving selection of a set of predictors and a test of the correlation of the set of predictors to the set of events, provided support for an extension of problem behavior theory to violent events.

Source: Scholarship @ Claremont (The Claremont Colleges)

Authors: Alan W. Stacy, Steve Sussman, Clyde W. Dent, Dee Burton, Brian R. Flay

Language: English

Topic: Crime Patterns and Interventions

Subfield: Sociology and Political Science

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

SDGs: Good health and well-being, Peace, justice, and strong institutions

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W284057411

FWCI: 6.866

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Cited by: 11

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