Richard E Tremblay
Biographic Data
| ID | 1409191 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Richard E Tremblay |
| GIVEN NAMES | Richard E |
| FAMILY NAME | Tremblay |
| SIGNATURE | TREMBLAY R E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Université de Montréal |
| ORCID | 0009-0006-6621-8696 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 131 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 648 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 130 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1978 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 12 |
Association Between Early Onset of Gambling Participation and Substance Use in Preadolescents and Age-17 Frequency and Characteristics of Addictive Behaviors
This study examined the specific and potential joint contribution of early onset of gambling participation (GP) and substance use (SU) in preadolescence to the frequency and characteristics of both behaviors in late adolescence, while controlling for confounders. Participants ( N = 1,270; 51.2% boys) were part of a Canadian birth cohort. Age 10–12 years self-reports of GP and SU over the past year (collected 2007–2009) were used to identify pread…
Adolescents and Social Media: Longitudinal Links Between Motivations for Using Social Media and Subsequent Internalizing Symptoms
Profiles of children’s social behaviors and peer victimization in early elementary school: Sex differences and stability over time
Research suggests that younger children engage in fewer peer victimization roles compared to their older peers (e.g., aggressor, victim, defender). Still, the development of these roles throughout early elementary school remains unclear. Additionally, aggression and social behaviors evolve differently in boys and girls, yet sex differences in these roles are not well understood. This study examined children's profiles of involvement in physical a…
Preadolescent individual, familial, and social risk factors associated with longitudinal patterns of adolescent alcohol, cannabis, and other illicit drug use in a population-representative cohort
The aim of this exploratory study was to identify developmental patterns of adolescent concurrent alcohol, cannabis, and other illicit drug use and their preadolescent individual, familial, and social risk factors in a population-representative cohort from the province of Quebec, Canada ( N = 1,593; 48.4% male). Age 12-17 years self-reports of alcohol, cannabis, and other illicit drug use were collected. Latent growth modeling was used to analyze…
Childhood behavior problems and adverse economic outcomes: A 30‐year population‐based study of intergenerational income mobility
BACKGROUND: The objectives of this study were to (a) assess the associations between early behavioral problems and intergenerational income mobility (i.e., the degree to which income status is transmitted from one generation to the next), (b) verify whether these associations are moderated by child sex, and (c) explore indirect effects of early behavioral problems on income mobility via high school graduation. METHODS: Data were drawn from the Qu…
Mechanisms and pathways linking kindergarten behavior problems with mid-life employment earnings for males from low-income neighborhoods
Childhood behavior problems are associated with reduced labor market participation and lower earnings in adulthood, but little is known about the pathways and mechanisms that explain these associations. Drawing on a 33-year prospective birth cohort of White males from low-income backgrounds (n = 1040), we conducted a path analysis linking participants' teacher-rated behavior problems at age 6 years—that is, inattention, hyperactivity, aggression-…
Does early child negative emotionality moderate the association between maternal stimulation and academic readiness and achievement
We investigated whether child temperament (negative emotionality, 5 months) moderated the association between maternal stimulation (5 months–21⁄2 years) and academic readiness and achievement (vocabulary, mathematics, and reading). We applied structural equation modeling to the data from the Quebec Longitudinal Study of Child Development (N = 1121–1448; mostly Whites; 47% girls). Compared to children with low negative emotionality, those with hig…
Association between developmental patterns of single and concurrent externalizing behaviors and internalizing problems over the preschool years
The present study investigated whether distinct developmental patterns of externalizing behaviors (EBs: hyperactivity-impulsivity, noncompliance, physical aggression) based on parent reports were repeatedly and differentially associated with separate dimensions of internalizing problems such as general anxiety, separation anxiety, and depressive symptoms across the early, middle, and late preschool years in a population birth cohort ( N = 2,057, …
Psychometric properties of the Social Behavior Questionnaire (SBQ) in a longitudinal population-based sample
We assessed the psychometric properties of the Social Behavior Questionnaire (SBQ), a 30-item questionnaire evaluating social (e.g., disruptive behaviors, bullying) and emotional problems (e.g., anxiety, depression) among children aged 3.5–12 years. Children ( n = 1,950, 50.21% boys) were drawn from the Quebec Longitudinal Study of Child Development. Mothers reported the frequency with which children presented social and emotional behaviors from …
Polygenic risk score and peer victimisation independently predict depressive symptoms in adolescence: Results from the Quebec Longitudinal Study of Children Development
BACKGROUND: Peer victimisation has been associated with depressive symptoms during adolescence, however not all peer victimised adolescents will exhibit such symptoms. This study tested whether having a genetic predisposition to developing depression increased the risk of experiencing depressive symptoms in peer victimised youth. To date, no study has explored such gene-environment interaction using a polygenic risk score for depression (PRS-depr…
Experiencing food insecurity in childhood: Influences on eating habits and body weight in young adulthood
Objective: To examine how food insecurity in childhood up to adolescence relates to eating habits and weight status in young adulthood. Design: A longitudinal study design was used to derive trajectories of household food insecurity from age 4·5 to 13 years. Multivariable linear and logistical regression analyses were performed to model associations between being at high risk of food insecurity from age 4·5 to 13 years and both dietary and weight…
Sports Attitudes in Childhood and Income in Adulthood
Research shows that sports participation in youth is associated with earnings in adulthood. However, studies have often relied on self-reported earnings and on single indicators of sports participation. Using large-scale data linked to administrative records, we investigate: (a) whether sports attitudes at age 13 are uniquely related to income at ages 30–36 and (b) whether educational attainment and mental health in early adulthood mediate this a…
Childhood Overeating and Disordered Eating From Early Adolescence to Young Adulthood: A Longitudinal Study on the Mediating Role of BMI, Victimization and Desire for Thinness
Parental affective personality and children's self‐reported internalising and externalising behaviour
Past research has demonstrated associations between parental personality traits and children's behaviour. However, fathers have been largely excluded from this research, and mothers often rate both their own personality and their child's behaviour, contributing to shared method variance. This study contributes to the literature by examining associations between parental biologically based affective personality traits, analysed separately for moth…
Academic Achievement in Grades 1 to 6: Association with Child, Parental and Socio-Familial Characteristics 5 Months After Birth
Early risk factors associated with preschool developmental patterns of single and co-occurrent disruptive behaviors in a population sample
The present study investigated prenatal and early postnatal risk factors associated with developmental patterns of disruptive behaviors (DBs; e.g., hyperactivity-impulsivity, noncompliance, physical aggression) from ages 1.5 to 5 years in a population birth cohort ( N = 2,057; 50.7% boys). Six high-trajectory classes obtained by latent growth modeling were used as longitudinal indicators of single-DB and co-occurrent DBs. Children following low o…
From preschool language skills to writing in adolescence: Evidence of genetic continuity
Given the importance of writing for academic achievement, this study aimed to understand how early oral language contributes to later writing skills. The first objective was to determine if preschool language skills were associated with high school writing, and if so, whether they contributed directly or indirectly through school age language. The second aim was to explore the extent to which genetic and environmental factors explained these pote…
Pathways of association between disordered eating in adolescence and mental health outcomes in young adulthood during the Covid-19 pandemic
Covid-19 preventive interventions for high-risk pregnant women and preschool children: A rehearsal for the baby boomers’ old-age pandemic
The Science of Violent Behavior Development and Prevention: Contributions of the Second World War Generation
This book describes the lives of 12 people born in Europe and North America during the Second World War. They became leading scholars on the development and prevention of violent human behavior. From the first to the last page, the book introduces contrasting life-stories and shows how their paths crossed to create a relatively unified body of knowledge on how human violence develops and possible prevention methods. The authors describe the simil…
Identifying environmental pathways between irritability during childhood and suicidal ideation and attempt in adolescence: Findings from a 20‐year population‐based study
BACKGROUND: Irritable children are at increased risk of suicidal ideation and suicide attempt, but the underlying environmental mechanisms accounting for these associations are largely unknown. We aimed to investigate the mediating role of peer victimization and harsh parenting in the association between childhood irritability and adolescent suicidal ideation and attempt. METHOD: N = 1,483 participants from the Québec Longitudinal Study of Child …
Polygenic scores differentially predict developmental trajectories of subtypes of social withdrawal in childhood
BACKGROUND: Children who consistently withdraw from social situations face increased risk for later socioemotional difficulties. Twin studies indicate that genetic factors substantially account for the persistence of social withdrawal over time. However, the molecular genetic etiology of chronic courses of social wariness and preference for solitude, two dimensions of social withdrawal, remains undocumented. The objectives of the present study we…
Developmental profiles of childhood attention‐deficit/hyperactivity disorder and irritability: Association with adolescent mental health, functional impairment, and suicidal outcomes
BACKGROUND: Irritability is frequently comorbid with ADHD. Although irritability alone has been linked to deleterious mental health and adaptive issues, the joint developmental course of ADHD and irritability symptoms during childhood as well as its association with later mental health and suicidal outcomes is not fully understood. We aimed to describe the developmental trajectories of childhood ADHD and irritability symptoms and to quantify thei…
Behavior in childhood is associated with romantic partnering patterns in adulthood
BACKGROUND: Most people will partner at some point during their lives. Yet little is known about the association between childhood behavior and patterns of long-term romantic partnering in adulthood. METHODS: In this population-based cohort study, behavioral ratings were prospectively obtained from teachers when children (n = 2,960) were aged 10-12 years - for inattention, hyperactivity, aggression-opposition, anxiety, and prosociality - and link…
Alcohol, Marijuana and Other Illicit Drugs Use Throughout Adolescence: Co-occurring Courses and Preadolescent Risk-Factors
Developmental trajectories of childhood disruptive behaviors and adolescent delinquency: A six-site, cross-national study
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 aggr…
Developmental Trajectory Groups: Fact or a Useful Statistical Fiction
A rapidly growing literature in criminology and psychology uses a group‐based methodology to identify and analyze developmental trajectories. Some confusion has arisen about the interpretation of this novel statistical model and with it some degree of cautionary commentary. We begin with a discussion of the role of trajectory groups as a statistical device for approximating population differences in developmental trajectories. We then discuss thr…
Trajectories of Prosocial Behavior and Physical Aggression in Middle Childhood: Links to Adolescent School Dropout and Physical Violence
Trajectories of prosocial behavior and physical aggression between 6 and 12 years of age were identified for a sample ( N =1,025) of males. The trajectories were then used to predict school dropout and physical violence at age 17. Using a group‐based semi‐parametric method, two trajectories of prosociality (low and moderate declining) and three trajectories of physical aggression (low, moderate, and high declining) were obtained. Only a small min…
Transactional analysis of the reciprocal links between peer experiences and academic achievement from middle childhood to early adolescence
This study tested a transactional model of reciprocal influences regarding students' peer experiences (peer acceptance, peer rejection, and friends' academic achievement) and students' academic achievement from middle childhood to early adolescence. This longitudinal model was tested on 452 students (198 girls), mostly Caucasian and French speaking, who were assessed yearly from Grades 2 through 7. Structural equation models revealed that, for bo…
Gender differences in physical aggression: A prospective population-based survey of children before and after 2 years of age
There has been much controversy over the past decades on the origins of gender differences in children's aggressive behavior. A widely held view is that gender differences emerge sometime after 2 years of age and increase in magnitude thereafter because of gender-differentiated socialization practices. The objective of this study was to test for (a) gender differences in the prevalence of physical aggression in the general population of 17-month-…
What Has Been Learned from Group-Based Trajectory Modeling? Examples from Physical Aggression and Other Problem Behaviors
The focus of this article is group-based trajectory modeling. Its purpose is threefold. The first is to clarify the proper statistical interpretation of a trajectory group. The second is to summarize some key findings on the developmental course of aggression and other problem behaviors that have emerged from the application of group-based trajectory models and that in the authors' judgment are important to the fields of developmental criminology…
Trajectories and predictors of indirect aggression: Results from a nationally representative longitudinal study of Canadian children aged 2–10
The purposes of this study were to model the development of indirect aggression among a nationally representative sample of 1,401 Canadian children aged 4 at T2, 6 at T3, 8 at T4 and 10 at T5, and to examine predictors of trajectory group membership from T1 (age 2) child, familial, and parenting variables. Using a semi‐parametric group‐based modeling approach, two distinct trajectories were identified: “increasing users” comprising of 35% of the …
Combining group-based trajectory modeling and propensity score matching for causal inferences in nonexperimental longitudinal data
A central theme of research on human development and psychopathology is whether a therapeutic intervention or a turning-point event, such as a family break-up, alters the trajectory of the behavior under study. This article describes and applies a method for using observational longitudinal data to make more transparent causal inferences about the impact of such events on developmental trajectories. The method combines 2 distinct lines of researc…
Disentangling the Weight of School Dropout Predictors: A Test on Two Longitudinal Samples
Physical aggression and expressive vocabulary in 19-month-old twins
The Road to Gang Membership: Characteristics of Male Gang and Nongang Members from Ages 10 to 14
This study examined the stability of belonging to a gang in early adolescence, the behaviour profiles, family characteristics, and friendships of nongang and gang members. The subjects in the present study were originally part of a larger sample of boys. One hundred and forty‐two boys who had a complete data set at ages 11, 12, 13, and 14 were selected for the present study. Loglinear analyses indicated that gang membership was stable from ages 1…
Risk Factor Models for Adolescent Verbal and Physical Aggression Toward Fathers
Parent and Peer Effects on Delinquency‐related Violence and Dating Violence: A Test of Two Mediational Models
Drawing on two complementary process models of violence, i.e., social cognitive theory and rejection sensitivity theory, the goal of the present study was (1) to examine the unique effects of parents and peers on boys’ violent behavior in delinquency‐related contexts and in dating relationships, (2) to assess the mediating processes underlying these links, and (3) to test whether these processes operate in the same way for delinquency‐related vio…
Early adolescence behavior problems and timing of poverty during childhood: A comparison of lifecourse models
Relations between Theory of Mind and Indirect and Physical Aggression in Kindergarten: Evidence of the Moderating Role of Prosocial Behaviors
The present study examined the association between theory of mind and indirect versus physical aggression, as well as the potential moderating role of prosocial behavior in this context. Participants were 399 twins and singletons drawn from two longitudinal studies in Canada. At five years of age, children completed a theory of mind task and a receptive vocabulary task. A year later, teachers evaluated children's indirect and physical aggression …
Nonmaternal care in infancy and emotional/behavioral difficulties at 4 years old: Moderation by family risk characteristics
The authors examined the role of familial risk and child characteristics in the association between the type of child care in infancy (maternal care [MC]) versus nonmaternal care [NMC]) and emotional/behavioral difficulties at 4 years old. Canadian families (N=1,358) with children between 1 and 12 months old were followed over 4 years. Family risks were found to moderate the association between type of child care and physical aggression. MC in in…
Friendship conflict and the development of generalized physical aggression in the early school years: A genetically informed study of potential moderators
Several authors consider high and frequent conflicts between friends during childhood as a serious risk for subsequent conduct problems such as generalized physical aggression toward others (e.g., Kupersmidt, Burchinal, & Patterson, 1995; Sebanc, 2003). Although it seems logical to assume that friendship conflict could have some negative consequences on children's behaviors, some scholars have suggested that a certain amount of conflict between f…
Risky Lifestyle as a Mediator of the Relationship Between Deviant Peer Affiliation and Dating Violence Victimization Among Adolescent Girls
Trajectories of Anxiety During Elementary-school Years and the Prediction of High School Noncompletion
The evolution of problem and social competence behaviors during toddlerhood: A prospective population‐based cohort survey
Research in developmental psychopathology has long been preoccupied with rather broad categories of behavior, but we know little about the specific behaviors that comprise these categories. The objective of this study was to: (a) estimate the prevalence of problem and social competence behaviors in the general population of children at 17 months of age, and (b) describe the continuity and discontinuity in the degree to which children exhibit thes…
Early Parent Training to Prevent Disruptive Behavior Problems and Delinquency in Children
Early forms of disruptive behaviors in children often leading to juvenile delinquency are associated with poor parenting skills. Thus early intervention programs targeting parenting skills may have an important impact on disruptive behaviors in children. The objective of this review was to assess the impact of early parenting and home visitation programs on behavior problems and delinquency in children. Selected trials were identified using elect…
Do other people's plights matter? A genetically informed twin study of the role of social context in the link between peer victimization and children's aggression and depression symptoms
Using a genetically informed design, this study examined the additive and interactive effects of genetic risk, personal peer victimization experiences, and peer victimization experienced by others on children's aggression and depression symptoms. Of major interest was whether these effects varied depending on whether or not the victimized others were children's close friends. The sample comprised 197 monozygotic and same-sex dizygotic twin pairs …
Further Reflections on Modeling and Analyzing Developmental Trajectories: A Response to Maughan and Raudenbush
In this article, the authors respond to the Raudenbush and Maughan commentaries elsewhere in this volume. Stephen Raudenbush's principal criticism of the groupbased trajectory model is that it reifies the idea that people follow a small number of immutable trajectories of behavior. This criticism reflects a fundamental misunderstanding of the statistical role of trajectory groups. Trajectory groups describe the trajectory of behavior that has act…
The role of maternal educational aspirations in mediating the risk of income source on academic failure in children from persistently poor families
Developmental Crime Prevention
Prevention experiments with children have targeted the development of antisocial behavior and confirm the hypothesis that early childhood factors are important precursors of delinquent behavior and that a cumulative effect model best fits the data. Experiments have aimed to prevent criminal behavior or one of three important delinquency risk factors: socially disruptive behavior, cognitive deficits, and poor parenting. Experiments with juvenile d…
Une question d’actualité: L’intégration Scolaire Dans Les Centres D’accueil : Impact Sur Les Objectifs Poursuivis Et Le Climat Social
Une question d’actualité : l’intégration scolaire dans les centres d’accueil : impact sur les objectifs poursuivis et le climat social. Un article de la revue Criminologie (Centres d’accueil du Québec : accréditation et évaluation) diffusée par la plateforme Érudit
Treatment of Hard-Core Delinquents in Residential Establishments
Journal Article TREATMENT OF HARD-CORE DELINQUENTS IN RESIDENTIAL ESTABLISHMENTS: The Ardale Case Get access R. E. TREMBLAY R. E. TREMBLAY * Associate Professor, University of Montreal Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The British Journal of Criminology, Volume 24, Issue 4, October 1984, Pages 384–393, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.bjc.a047466 Published: 01 October 1984
The Association between Early Adolescent Boys' Cognitive Development, Father Attitudes and Nonverbal Behavior
Based on Piaget's equilibration theory, father dogmatism and empathy was hypothesized to influence sons' cognitive development through non-verbal behavior in father-son interactions. Subjects were 52 pairs of fathers and their sons drawn from first-year high school students of bi-parental families. Fathers' dogmatism and empathy was assessed by questionnaire, sons' cognitive development with Piaget's permutation task using the clinical procedure,…
A Study of Factors Associated with the Stability of Hidden Delinquency
Studies on social changes and the delinquent conduct of adolescents are based on indirect information, official statistics and recollection interviews. Comparative studies, those that use the same instrument on two or more occasions on different generations of subjects, are non-existent where the delinquent conduct of adolescents is concerned. Thanks to a survey conducted in 1985 that replicated a study conducted in 1974, we were able to provide …
Disruptive boys with stable and unstable high fighting behavior patterns during junior elementary school
Human Development and Criminal Behavior: New Ways of Advancing Knowledge
Predicting Early Onset of Male Antisocial Behavior From Preschool Behavior
METHODS: Data from a large longitudinal study of boys who were between kindergarten and age 13 years were used to (1) test whether Gray's and Cloninger's personality dimensions measured in kindergarten predicted the early onset of stable, highly delinquent behavior; (2) test whether 1, 2, or 3 dimensions were needed; and (3) test the predictive value of a categorical approach. RESULTS: The impulsivity dimension was the best predictor of the early…
Developmental Crime Prevention
Prevention experiments with children have targeted the development of antisocial behavior and confirm the hypothesis that early childhood factors are important precursors of delinquent behavior and that a cumulative effect model best fits the data. Experiments have aimed to prevent criminal behavior or one of three important delinquency risk factors: socially disruptive behavior, cognitive deficits, and poor parenting. Experiments with juvenile d…
Disentangling the Weight of School Dropout Predictors: A Test on Two Longitudinal Samples
Can Childhood Behavioural Characteristics Predict Adolescent Boys' Health: A Nine-year Longitudinal Study
Nine-year longitudinal data were used to group participants in terms of the stability of the boys' disruptiveness and/or anxiety. In addition to annual assessment, 625 boys were interviewed between the ages 14 and 16 years to measure healthy and risky behaviours, as well as health outcomes. A logistic regression showed significant group effects for risky health behaviours (e.g. unsafe sex, alcohol abuse). Boys with stable disruptive characteristi…
Does Preschool Help Prevent Delinquency in Boys With a History of Perinatal Complications
We examined whether a preschool intervention program moderates the effects of perinatal complications with a sample of boys from the most disadvantaged areas of Montreal (Canada). Some boys experienced the preschool program and some did not, which allowed us to test whether the program had any effects on the boys' risk for early adolescent delinquency given their perinatal histories. We hypothesized that perinatal complications would place boys a…
Trajectories of Boys' Physical Aggression, Opposition, and Hyperactivity on the Path to Physically Violent and Nonviolent Juvenile Delinquency
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 physically violent and nonviolent juvenile delinquency up to 17 years of age. Four developmental trajectories were identified for the physical aggres…
The search for the age of ‘onset’ of physical aggression: Rousseau and Bandura revisited
Early parental separation and the psychosocial development of daughters 6-9 years old
The relationship of timing of early parental separation to psychosocial development of daughters was examined in 77 girls, 6-9 years of age over a four-year period. Disruptive behavior across contexts was prevalent in girls separated between birth and two years of age. Girls separated between three and five years of age showed more externalizing behavior problems, but only in school. Results suggest that early parental separation has more pervasi…
The development of aggressive behaviour during childhood: What have we learned in the past century?
Research on human aggression has been a flourishing industry in the 20th century. As the attention shifted from an instinctual paradigm to a drive paradigm and a social learning paradigm, what have we learned on the development of aggressive behaviour during childhood? Are children born with an aggressive instinct or do they have to learn to aggress?This question has deep philosophical roots, but it also has important practical implications. Shou…
Influence of Deviant Friends on Delinquency: Searching for Moderator Variables
Developmental Trajectories of Physical Aggression from School Entry to Late Adolescence
The developmental perspective applied to psychopathology has led to the concept of early‐and late‐onset disorders. This study explores the application of the early‐ and late‐onset concepts of antisocial behavior to physical aggression. Are there two categories of chronically physically violent adolescents: those who are physically aggressive throughout childhood and those who start being physically aggressive during adolescence? The estimation of…
Analyzing developmental trajectories of distinct but related behaviors: A group-based method.
This article presents a group-based method to jointly estimate developmental trajectories of 2 distinct but theoretically related measurement series. The method will aid the analysis of comorbidity and heterotypic continuity. Three key outputs of the model are (a) for both measurement series, the form of the trajectory of distinctive subpopulations; (b) the probability of membership in each such trajectory group; and (c) the joint probability of …
Parental and Early Childhood Predictors of Persistent Physical Aggression in Boys From Kindergarten to High School
BACKGROUND: In a prior study, we identified 4 groups following distinct developmental courses, or trajectories, of physical aggression in 1037 boys from 6 to 15 years of age in a high-risk population sample from Montréal, Québec. Two were trajectories of high aggression, a persistently high group and a high but declining group. The other 2 trajectories were a low group and a moderate declining group. This study identified early predictors of phys…
Gambling, Delinquency, and Drug Use During Adolescence: Mutual Influences and Common Risk Factors
Preventive Intervention: Assessing its Effects on the Trajectories of Delinquency and Testing for Mediational Processes
This study assessed the impact of a prevention program on the growth of delinquency from 13 to 16 years of age and examined whether its impact operated through a chain of events compatible with many developmental models. The multicomponent prevention program targeted disruptive, low socioeconomic status boys when they were aged 7 through 9 years. A growth-curve analysis showed that the level of delinquency for the prevention group was lower at 13…
Infant visual habituation and parental psychological distress
Research is equivocal concerning the relationship between parental psychological distress and infant cognitive functioning. Four potential limitations of the literature are addressed: reliance on mothers' but not fathers' psychological distress, use of categorical measures of psychological distress, use of standardized measures of infant cognitive functioning, and failure to take into account potential gender differences. Ninety‐nine twin pairs a…
Early Parent Training to Prevent Disruptive Behavior Problems and Delinquency in Children
Early forms of disruptive behaviors in children often leading to juvenile delinquency are associated with poor parenting skills. Thus early intervention programs targeting parenting skills may have an important impact on disruptive behaviors in children. The objective of this review was to assess the impact of early parenting and home visitation programs on behavior problems and delinquency in children. Selected trials were identified using elect…
The Road to Gang Membership: Characteristics of Male Gang and Nongang Members from Ages 10 to 14
This study examined the stability of belonging to a gang in early adolescence, the behaviour profiles, family characteristics, and friendships of nongang and gang members. The subjects in the present study were originally part of a larger sample of boys. One hundred and forty‐two boys who had a complete data set at ages 11, 12, 13, and 14 were selected for the present study. Loglinear analyses indicated that gang membership was stable from ages 1…
Parent and Peer Effects on Delinquency‐related Violence and Dating Violence: A Test of Two Mediational Models
Drawing on two complementary process models of violence, i.e., social cognitive theory and rejection sensitivity theory, the goal of the present study was (1) to examine the unique effects of parents and peers on boys’ violent behavior in delinquency‐related contexts and in dating relationships, (2) to assess the mediating processes underlying these links, and (3) to test whether these processes operate in the same way for delinquency‐related vio…
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