John E Lochman
Biographic Data
| ID | 213216 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John E Lochman |
| GIVEN NAMES | John E |
| FAMILY NAME | Lochman |
| SIGNATURE | LOCHMAN J E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Alabama |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8703-040X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 51 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 154 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 51 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1980 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
“Thankful to Have Extra Hands!”: Teacher and Counselor Perceptions of External Clinicians' Delivery of Coping Power
Coping Power is a school‐based treatment for students at risk for aggressive behaviors. Coping Power includes weekly small group lessons delivered during the school day for an entire school year. The feasibility of Coping Power to be implemented and sustained by existing school staff is not well‐known because most of the Coping Power studies to date have had external facilitators (from outside of the school). Therefore, in examining educator perc…
Randomized controlled trial of the early adolescent coping power program: Effects on emotional and behavioral problems in middle schoolers
Investigation of a novel internet-based aggression prevention program for children
Beyond Jacobson and Truax: Estimation of Clinical Significance Trajectories in the Coping Power Intervention Using Measurement Error-Corrected Multilevel Modeling
Kindergarten conduct problems are associated with monetized outcomes in adolescence and adulthood
BACKGROUND: Across several sites in the United States, we examined whether kindergarten conduct problems among mostly population-representative samples of children were associated with increased criminal and related (criminal + lost offender productivity + victim; described as criminal + victim hereafter) costs across adolescence and adulthood, as well as government and medical services costs in adulthood. METHODS: Participants (N = 1,339) were f…
Leveraging Data Science to Advance Implementation Science: The Case of School Mental Health
Data science (DS) is the formalized discipline of managing the full lifecycle of data across areas of scientific inquiry. Although the field of DS has existed for almost 50 years, the evolution of the tools, frameworks, and processing power needed to provide meaningful advancements have only recently come to fruition. DS has been integrated into multiple industries and disciplines to optimize outcomes, increase efficiency, and maximize human and …
Using a Cross-Classified Multilevel Mediation Model (CC-M3) with Longitudinal Data Having Changes in Cluster Membership
Cluster memberships associated with the mediation effect are often changed due to the temporal distance between the cause-and-effect variables in longitudinal data. Nevertheless, current practices in multilevel mediation analysis mostly assume a purely hierarchical data structure. A Monte Carlo simulation study is conducted to examine the consequence of ignoring the changes in cluster memberships in multilevel mediation analysis. Results show tha…
Applying an ecosocial framework to address racial disparities in suicide risk among black youth
Suicide in Black youth is a major public health crisis. Given that racism is a core aspect of the lived experience of Black students in educational settings, efforts to reduce racial disparities in suicide risk must identify and address sources of racism in school contexts and facilitate culturally relevant coping strategies. This article highlights patterns associated with the emergence of risk in Black children and adolescents, applies the Ecos…
The effectiveness of training rural mental health clinicians to treat disruptive behavior disorders
Diagnostic classification of irritability and oppositionality in youth: A global field study comparing ICD‐11 with ICD‐10 and DSM‐5
BACKGROUND: Severe irritability has become an important topic in child and adolescent mental health. Based on the available evidence and on public health considerations, WHO classified chronic irritability within oppositional defiant disorder (ODD) in ICD-11, a solution markedly different from DSM-5's (i.e. the new childhood mood diagnosis, disruptive mood dysregulation disorder [DMDD]) and from ICD-10's (i.e. ODD as one of several conduct disord…
One Year Follow Up Efficacy of the Coping Power Universal and Its Relations with Teachers’ Occupational Stress
The coping power universal (CPU) is an evidence-based universal prevention program delivered by teachers, and completely integrated into the school agenda. Previous studies have shown its positive effects, though little is known about its longer-term effects, and no previous study has explored whether teachers' occupational stress could influence the CPU efficacy. The current study aimed to explore the 1 year follow up of the CPU on students' ext…
Using Crime Data to Assess Longitudinal Relationships Between Community Violent Crime and Aggressive Behavior Among At-Risk Youth
The goal of this study was to assess longitudinal, predictive relationships between community violent crime and reactive and proactive aggression. Community violent crime data were gathered from local law enforcement agencies and combined with an existing dataset of at-risk youth. Aggression was assessed by parents using the Reactive and Proactive Aggression Questionnaire (RPQ). Data were examined over four time points. Autoregressive cross-lagge…
Coping Power Universal for middle school students: The first efficacy study
INTRODUCTION: The present study examined the efficacy of the universal prevention version of the Coping Power Program in reducing behavioral and emotional problems and in promoting prosocial behaviors in middle-school classrooms. METHODS: The study used a randomized control study design; and the sample included 839 middle-school Italian youths (411 males), attending 40 middle-school classrooms. The students were in seventh or eighth grade, and th…
Autonomic functioning in reactive versus proactive aggression: The influential role of inconsistent parenting
Research has consistently supported autonomic nervous system (ANS) functioning as a predictor of aggressive behavior in youth. Several studies have further examined how the functioning of the sympathetic (SNS) and parasympathetic (PNS) branches of the ANS interact with environmental factors to predict behavioral outcomes. One factor that has yet to be studied in this context however, is parenting practices. Given that many interventions for exter…
Social and Emotional Skills Training for Children: The Fast Track Friendship Group Manual
Coping Power Adapted as Universal Prevention Program: Mid Term Effects on Children’s Behavioral Difficulties and Academic Grades
Session 9: Discipline and Punishment—Part I
Chapter 9 introduces the topic of discipline and punishment. It discuses the concepts of punishment, rules for good punishment, time-out, and the steps for time-outs for noncompliance, and behavior rules violations.
Session 10: Discipline and Punishment—Part II
Chapter 10 further discusses discipline and punishment, and focuses on privilege removal as a punishment. Steps for privilege removal for noncompliance and behavior rules violations are outlined, as well as the assignment of work chores as a punishment. The chapter also explores total reward shutdown, and discipline for major misbehavior.
Risky sexual behavior and substance use among adolescents: A meta-analysis
Real‐time hostile attribution measurement and aggression in children
Hostile attributions are an important predictor of aggression in children, but few studies have measured hostile attributions as they occur in real-time. The current study uses an interactive video racing game to measure hostile attributions while children played against a presumed peer. A sample of 75 children, ages 10-13, used nonverbal and verbal procedures to respond to ambiguous provocation by their opponent. Hostile attributions were signif…
Parenting Influences on the Social Goals of Aggressive Children
Although research has examined how parenting may influence children's social information processing, little research has examined how these factors may influence children's social goals. The current study examined how both parent- and child-reports of parenting behaviors were associated with regressed change in children's reported social goals over a one-year time period. Participants were 116 children (58.8% male), identified as being highly agg…
School Outcomes of Aggressive‐Disruptive Children: Prediction From Kindergarten Risk Factors and Impact of the Fast Track Prevention Program
A multi-gate screening process identified 891 children with aggressive-disruptive behavior problems at school entry. Fast Track provided a multi-component preventive intervention in the context of a randomized-controlled design. In addition to psychosocial support and skill training for parents and children, the intervention included intensive reading tutoring in first grade, behavioral management consultation with teachers, and the provision of …
Racially diverse classrooms: Effects of classroom racial composition on interracial peer relationships
The purpose of this study was to examine the interactive effects that a child's race and the racial composition of a classroom have on a variety of sociometric measures. Sociometric nominations were collected from 872 fifth-grade students (48% male, 48% Black) who were in classrooms that ranged from nearly all Black to nearly all White students. Hierarchical Linear Modeling analyses indicated that the race of the child, the race of the rater, and…
The Influence of Neighborhood Characteristics and Parenting Practices on Academic Problems and Aggression Outcomes Among Moderately to Highly Aggressive Children
The current study utilized a longitudinal design to examine the effects of neighborhood and parenting on 120 at‐risk children's academic and aggressive outcomes, concurrently and at two later timepoints during the transition to middle school. Random effects regression models were estimated to examine whether neighborhood characteristics and harsh parenting predicted change in these problems from 4 th to 6 th grade. Results indicated that academic…
The Role of Religiosity in African American Preadolescent Aggression
This study examined the role of parent and preadolescent religiosity in aggression among African American preadolescents with moderate to high aggression. Hierarchical regression analyses were used to determine (a) which aspects of parent and preadolescent religiosity (i.e., church attendance, private religious activities, and intrinsic religiosity) accounted for the most variance in preadolescent aggression and (b) the potential moderating role …
Predicting developmental outcomes at school entry using a multiple-risk model: Four American communities
The contributions of different risk factors in predicting children's psychological and academic outcomes at the end of 1st grade were examined. Using a regression model, levels of ecobehavioral risk were assessed in the following order: specific demographics, broad demographics, family psychosocial status, mother's depressive symptoms, and neighborhood quality. Participants were 337 families from 4 American communities. Predictor variables were a…
The importance of narcissism in predicting proactive and reactive aggression in moderately to highly aggressive children
The present study examined the importance of psychopathy‐linked narcissism in predicting proactive and reactive aggression and conduct problems in a group of 160 moderately to highly aggressive children (mean age of 10 years, 9 months). Children's self‐report of self‐esteem and parent and teacher report of dimensions of psychopathy [narcissism, callous–unemotional (CU) traits, and impulsivity], proactive and reactive aggression, and conduct probl…
Risky sexual behavior and substance use among adolescents: A meta-analysis
If It's Offered, Will They Come? Influences on Parents' Participation in a Community‐Based Conduct Problems Prevention Program
This study examined influences on the rate and quality of parent participation in the Fast Track Program, a multi‐system, longitudinal preventive intervention for children who are at risk for conduct problems. A theoretical model of the relations among family coordinator characteristics, parent characteristics, the therapeutic engagement between family coordinator and parent, and rate and quality of parent participation was the basis for this stu…
Automatic versus reflective social problem solving in relation to children's sociometric status
Children's automatic and reflective social problem-solving skills were compared by requiring them to generate solutions to hypothetical social problems immediately after hearing them or after being required to wait 20 s before answering. The implications of the findings for aggressive and rejected children's social problem-solving deficiencies are discussed
The Relation Between Chosen Role Models and the Self-Esteem of Men and Women
Implementing a Comprehensive Program for the Prevention of Conduct Problems in Rural Communities: The Fast Track Experience
Childhood conduct problems are predictive of a number of serious long‐term difficulties (e.g., school failure, delinquent behavior, and mental health problems), making the design of effective prevention programs a priority. The Fast Track Program is a demonstration project currently underway in four demographically diverse areas of the United States, testing the feasibility and effectiveness of a comprehensive, multicomponent prevention program t…
Risk Factors for Adolescent Pregnancy Reports Among African American Males
This study examined childhood and adolescent risk factors for males' reports of getting someone pregnant during adolescence. These questions were examined in an urban sample of 335 African American males involved in a prospective, longitudinal study. Childhood aggression significantly predicted reported pregnancies during adolescence. Boys who were stably aggressive across 3rd through 5th grades were at particularly high risk for reporting gettin…
Ethnic Identity in African American and European American Preadolescents: Relation to Self-Worth, Social Goals, and Aggression
The current study tested models to determine the extent to which self-worth and social goals mediate the influence of ethnic identity on aggression among aggressive European and African American preadolescents. Ethnic identity emerged as important for both groups, but in different ways. Different patterns of influence of ethnic identity and of mediation were found for the European and African American preadolescents. Ethnic identity was found to …
Real‐time hostile attribution measurement and aggression in children
Hostile attributions are an important predictor of aggression in children, but few studies have measured hostile attributions as they occur in real-time. The current study uses an interactive video racing game to measure hostile attributions while children played against a presumed peer. A sample of 75 children, ages 10-13, used nonverbal and verbal procedures to respond to ambiguous provocation by their opponent. Hostile attributions were signif…
School Outcomes of Aggressive‐Disruptive Children: Prediction From Kindergarten Risk Factors and Impact of the Fast Track Prevention Program
A multi-gate screening process identified 891 children with aggressive-disruptive behavior problems at school entry. Fast Track provided a multi-component preventive intervention in the context of a randomized-controlled design. In addition to psychosocial support and skill training for parents and children, the intervention included intensive reading tutoring in first grade, behavioral management consultation with teachers, and the provision of …
Experimentally manipulated change in children's proactive and reactive aggressive behavior
The current study assessed the effectiveness of two behavior manipulations created to differentially lower aggressive responses in a laboratory task. It was hypothesized that the reactive anger manipulation would have the greatest effect for reactive aggressive behavior and the instrumental manipulation would significantly affect proactive aggressive behavior and slightly affect the reactive behavior. Fifty participants played pinball in competit…
The distinction between beliefs legitimizing aggression and deviant processing of social cues: Testing measurement validity and the hypothesis that biased processing mediates the effects of beliefs on…
In 2 studies the authors examined knowledge and social information-processing mechanisms as 2 distinct sources of influence on child aggression. Data were collected from 387 boys and girls of diverse ethnicity in 3 successive years. In Study 1, confirmatory factor analyses demonstrated the discriminant validity of the knowledge construct of aggression beliefs and the processing constructs of hostile intent attributions, accessing of aggressive re…
Nonverbal communication of couples in conflict
Autonomic functioning in reactive versus proactive aggression: The influential role of inconsistent parenting
Research has consistently supported autonomic nervous system (ANS) functioning as a predictor of aggressive behavior in youth. Several studies have further examined how the functioning of the sympathetic (SNS) and parasympathetic (PNS) branches of the ANS interact with environmental factors to predict behavioral outcomes. One factor that has yet to be studied in this context however, is parenting practices. Given that many interventions for exter…
The Difficulty of Maintaining Positive Intervention Effects: A Look at Disruptive Behavior, Deviant Peer Relations, and Social Skills During the Middle School Years
This paper examines the effects of the Fast Track preventive intervention on youths' functioning in three domains: disruptive behavior problems, involvement with deviant peers, and social skills during the middle school years. Eight hundred ninety-one children had been randomly assigned by sets of schools within four sites to intervention ( n = 445) or to control ( n = 446) conditions. In contrast to prior findings of the effectiveness of the Fas…
The effect of neighborhood disadvantage on proactive and reactive aggression
The current study examined the effect of neighborhood disadvantage on proactive and reactive aggression in a sample of 126 children (66% male) identified as aggressive. Sixth‐grade proactive and reactive aggression was regressed on fifth‐grade proactive and reactive aggression, neighborhood disadvantage, gender, and race. Findings suggested that neighborhood disadvantage was a significant unique predictor of proactive but not reactive aggression.…
Self‐perceived Social Acceptance and Peer Social Standing in Children with Aggressive–Disruptive Behaviors
Examining children's perceptions of their social acceptance in conjunction with others’ ratings of their peer social standing can enhance our understanding of the heterogeneity in children exhibiting disruptive behavior problems. Using a sample of 213 youth rated in the top 31 percent of their class on aggressive–disruptive behaviors, the current study examined the interaction between children's perceptions of their social acceptance and their pe…
Evaluation of dropout clients and of perceived usefulness of a parent education program
This study investigated parents' perceptions and demographic variables in relation to dropout rates and the perceived usefulness of parent education groups. Changes in parents' perceptions of themselves and their families following the groups were also assessed. Thirty-one parents volunteered to participate in the nine-session groups, which included both behavior modification and communication training components. Thirteen parents failed to compl…
Psychosocial effects of an intensive summer communication program for cleft palate children
Nonverbal communication of couples in conflict
Effects of different treatment lengths in cognitive behavioral interventions with aggressive boys
Aggression replacement training: A comprehensive intervention for aggressive youth
Automatic versus reflective social problem solving in relation to children's sociometric status
Children's automatic and reflective social problem-solving skills were compared by requiring them to generate solutions to hypothetical social problems immediately after hearing them or after being required to wait 20 s before answering. The implications of the findings for aggressive and rejected children's social problem-solving deficiencies are discussed
Predicting early adolescent disorder from childhood aggression and peer rejection.
Reactive and proactive aggression in school children and psychiatrically impaired chronically assaultive youth.
Social problem-solving skills in boys with conduct and oppositional defiant disorders
The current study compared the social problem-solving skills of a clinic-based sample of 30 boys diagnosed with conduct disorder (CD) and 25 boys diagnosed with oppositional defiant disorder (ODD). Past research has indicated that contextual factors influence children's social problem-solving; thus, three hypothetical conflict situations (i.e., child-child, teacher-child, and parent-child) and situations which differed by degree of negative inten…
Social problem‐solving skills in boys with conduct and oppositional defiant disorders
The current study compared the social problem-solving skills of a clinic-based sample of 30 boys diagnosed with conduct disorder (CD) and 25 boys diagnosed with oppositional defiant disorder (ODD). Past research has indicated that contextual factors influence children's social problem-solving; thus, three hypothetical conflict situations (i.e., child-child, teacher-child, and parent-child) and situations which differed by degree of negative inten…
Implementing a Comprehensive Program for the Prevention of Conduct Problems in Rural Communities: The Fast Track Experience
Childhood conduct problems are predictive of a number of serious long‐term difficulties (e.g., school failure, delinquent behavior, and mental health problems), making the design of effective prevention programs a priority. The Fast Track Program is a demonstration project currently underway in four demographically diverse areas of the United States, testing the feasibility and effectiveness of a comprehensive, multicomponent prevention program t…
If It's Offered, Will They Come? Influences on Parents' Participation in a Community‐Based Conduct Problems Prevention Program
This study examined influences on the rate and quality of parent participation in the Fast Track Program, a multi‐system, longitudinal preventive intervention for children who are at risk for conduct problems. A theoretical model of the relations among family coordinator characteristics, parent characteristics, the therapeutic engagement between family coordinator and parent, and rate and quality of parent participation was the basis for this stu…
The distinction between beliefs legitimizing aggression and deviant processing of social cues: Testing measurement validity and the hypothesis that biased processing mediates the effects of beliefs on…
In 2 studies the authors examined knowledge and social information-processing mechanisms as 2 distinct sources of influence on child aggression. Data were collected from 387 boys and girls of diverse ethnicity in 3 successive years. In Study 1, confirmatory factor analyses demonstrated the discriminant validity of the knowledge construct of aggression beliefs and the processing constructs of hostile intent attributions, accessing of aggressive re…
Predicting developmental outcomes at school entry using a multiple-risk model: Four American communities
The contributions of different risk factors in predicting children's psychological and academic outcomes at the end of 1st grade were examined. Using a regression model, levels of ecobehavioral risk were assessed in the following order: specific demographics, broad demographics, family psychosocial status, mother's depressive symptoms, and neighborhood quality. Participants were 337 families from 4 American communities. Predictor variables were a…
Parent and Family Skills Training in Targeted Prevention Programs for At-Risk Youth
Family-Based Approaches to Substance Abuse Prevention
Experimentally manipulated change in children's proactive and reactive aggressive behavior
The current study assessed the effectiveness of two behavior manipulations created to differentially lower aggressive responses in a laboratory task. It was hypothesized that the reactive anger manipulation would have the greatest effect for reactive aggressive behavior and the instrumental manipulation would significantly affect proactive aggressive behavior and slightly affect the reactive behavior. Fifty participants played pinball in competit…
Risk Factors for Adolescent Pregnancy Reports Among African American Males
This study examined childhood and adolescent risk factors for males' reports of getting someone pregnant during adolescence. These questions were examined in an urban sample of 335 African American males involved in a prospective, longitudinal study. Childhood aggression significantly predicted reported pregnancies during adolescence. Boys who were stably aggressive across 3rd through 5th grades were at particularly high risk for reporting gettin…
The Relation Between Chosen Role Models and the Self-Esteem of Men and Women
Self‐perceived Social Acceptance and Peer Social Standing in Children with Aggressive–Disruptive Behaviors
Examining children's perceptions of their social acceptance in conjunction with others’ ratings of their peer social standing can enhance our understanding of the heterogeneity in children exhibiting disruptive behavior problems. Using a sample of 213 youth rated in the top 31 percent of their class on aggressive–disruptive behaviors, the current study examined the interaction between children's perceptions of their social acceptance and their pe…
The importance of narcissism in predicting proactive and reactive aggression in moderately to highly aggressive children
The present study examined the importance of psychopathy‐linked narcissism in predicting proactive and reactive aggression and conduct problems in a group of 160 moderately to highly aggressive children (mean age of 10 years, 9 months). Children's self‐report of self‐esteem and parent and teacher report of dimensions of psychopathy [narcissism, callous–unemotional (CU) traits, and impulsivity], proactive and reactive aggression, and conduct probl…
Coping Power: Workbook: Parent group program: 8-copy set
Ethnic Identity in African American and European American Preadolescents: Relation to Self-Worth, Social Goals, and Aggression
The current study tested models to determine the extent to which self-worth and social goals mediate the influence of ethnic identity on aggression among aggressive European and African American preadolescents. Ethnic identity emerged as important for both groups, but in different ways. Different patterns of influence of ethnic identity and of mediation were found for the European and African American preadolescents. Ethnic identity was found to …
The Difficulty of Maintaining Positive Intervention Effects: A Look at Disruptive Behavior, Deviant Peer Relations, and Social Skills During the Middle School Years
This paper examines the effects of the Fast Track preventive intervention on youths' functioning in three domains: disruptive behavior problems, involvement with deviant peers, and social skills during the middle school years. Eight hundred ninety-one children had been randomly assigned by sets of schools within four sites to intervention ( n = 445) or to control ( n = 446) conditions. In contrast to prior findings of the effectiveness of the Fas…
The effect of neighborhood disadvantage on proactive and reactive aggression
The current study examined the effect of neighborhood disadvantage on proactive and reactive aggression in a sample of 126 children (66% male) identified as aggressive. Sixth‐grade proactive and reactive aggression was regressed on fifth‐grade proactive and reactive aggression, neighborhood disadvantage, gender, and race. Findings suggested that neighborhood disadvantage was a significant unique predictor of proactive but not reactive aggression.…
Psychology (48 works) · Developmental psychology (33 works) · Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development (29 works) · Clinical Psychology (24 works) · Medicine (23 works) · Aggression (20 works) · Bullying, Victimization, and Aggression (19 works) · Psychiatry (19 works) · Social Psychology (19 works) · Poison control (15 works)