Magda Stouthamer‐Loeber
Biographic Data
| ID | 5129765 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Magda Stouthamer‐Loeber |
| GIVEN NAMES | Magda |
| FAMILY NAME | Stouthamer‐Loeber |
| SIGNATURE | LOEBER M S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Pittsburgh |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 545 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1984 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Do as you’re told! Facets of agreeableness and early adult outcomes for inner-city boys
Violence and Serious Theft: Development and Prediction from Childhood to Adulthood
Part I: Introduction and Methods. Introduction and Key Questions. The Pittsburgh Youth Study: Its Design, Data Collection, and Early Key Findings. Measurement Instruments and Constructs. Part II: Epidemiology of Violence, Serious Theft, Substance Use, Drug Dealing and Gang Membership. The Age-Crime Curve in Reported Offending. Comparing Arrests and Convictions with Reported Offending. Substance Use, Drug Dealing, Gang Membership, and Gun Carrying…
Longitudinal evidence that psychopathy scores in early adolescence predict adult psychopathy.
This study examined the relation between psychopathy assessed at age 13 by using the mother-reported Childhood Psychopathy Scale (D. R. Lynam, 1997) and psychopathy assessed at age 24 by using the interviewer-rated Psychopathy Checklist: Screening Version (PCL:SV; S. D. Hart, D. N. Cox, & R. D. Hare, 1995). Data from over 250 participants of the middle sample of the Pittsburgh Youth Study were used to examine this relation; approximately 9% of th…
The reactive–proactive aggression questionnaire: Differential correlates of reactive and proactive aggression in adolescent boys
This study reports the development of the Reactive–Proactive Aggression Questionnaire (RPQ), and the differential correlates of these two forms of aggression. Antisocial, psychosocial and personality measures were obtained at ages 7 and 16 years in schoolboys, while the RPQ was administered to 334 of the boys at age 16 years. Confirmatory factor analysis indicated a significant fit for a two‐factor proactive–reactive model that replicated from on…
Developmental Shifts in Parent and Peer Influences on Boys' Beliefs About Delinquent Behavior
This paper examines the relative shifts in parent and peer influences on the development of boys' beliefs regarding delinquency from early to middle adolescence. The paper also explores the influence that beliefs about delinquency have on subsequent changes in these social relationships. Structural equation modeling is used to analyze six annual waves of data for 481 boys from the youngest sample of the Pittsburgh Youth Study. Increased parent–ad…
La prédiction de la délinquance
The paper presents the results of a meta-analysis to analyze which predictors of delinquency in males and females are consistently evident from longitudinal studies, and how the predictors compare in their predictive efficiency. The results show that a variety of conduct problems but also conditions within the family are predictive of later delinquency in general, recidivism, or serious offenses. As a rule, composite indicators of risk factors ou…
Antisocial Behavior and Youth Gang Membership: Selection and Socialization
We examine whether gang membership is associated with higher levels of delinquency because boys predisposed to delinquent activity are more likely than others to join. We use 10 years of longitudinal data from 858 participants of the Pittsburgh Youth Study to identify periods before, during and after gang membership. We build on prior research by controlling for ages and calendar time, by better accounting for gang memberships that occurred befor…
Risk and promotive effects in the explanation of persistent serious delinquency in boys.
Participants were studied over ages 13-19 years for the oldest sample and 7-13 years for the youngest sample.Risk and promotive effects were studied in 6 domains: child behavior, child attitudes, school and leisure activities, peer behaviors, family functioning, and demographics.Regression models improved when promotive effects were included with risk effects in predicting persistent serious delinquency.Disadvantaged neighborhoods, compared with …
Dublin and its vicinity in 1797
This paper presents an hitherto unnoticed travel journal, describing Dublin and its vicinity in the summer and autumn of 1797. Its anonymous author, P.S., had a keen eye for architecture and describes many public buildings in the metropolis, such as the newly built Custom House and the Four Courts. In and outside of the city, he gives an account of private mansions, such as Leinster House, Charlemont House, Castletown House, Carton, and Lord Char…
The concentration of offenders in families, and family criminality in the prediction of boys' delinquency
Patterns and correlates of agreement between parent, teacher, and male adolescent ratings of externalizing and internalizing problems.
The authors examined how well 394 triads of male youths, caregivers, and teachers agreed about youth problems reported on the Achenbach checklists. Dyadic agreement was measured through difference scores (subtracting the raw score of youth self-report from the caregiver's or teacher's score for shared items), q correlations between pairs of raters across items, and D2 (generalized distance between item profiles) for both externalizing and interna…
Antisocial Behavior and Mental Health Problems: Explanatory Factors in Childhood and Adolescence
Epidemiological surveys have provided key information about the prevalence and degree of seriousness at different ages of a wide array of problem behaviors such as delinquency, substance use, early sexual involvement, and mental health disorders. Knowledge of the extent of these problems and changes in their course over time is important. In its absence, interventions and health planning in general can be difficult. Understanding which risk and p…
Development of juvenile aggression and violence: Some common misconceptions and controversies
Delay of Gratification, Psychopathology, and Personality: Is Low Self‐Control Specific to Externaiizing Problems
We assessed the delay of gratification behavior of 428 twelve and thirteen‐year‐old boys, half of whom were known to manifest symptoms of behavioral disturbance. Consistent with the hypothesis that low self‐control is a risk factor specific to externalizing (aggressive and delinquent) disorders, boys who showed signs of externalizing disorders tended to seek immediate gratification in a laboratory task more often than both nondisordered boys and …
Self‐reported Delinquency and a Combined Delinquency Seriousness Scale Based on Boys, Mothers, and Teachers: Concurrent and Predictive Validity for African‐americans and Caucasians
The Pittsburgh Youth Study is a prospective longitudinal survey of three samples of Pittsburgh boys (each containing about 500 boys) initially studied in first, fourth, and seventh grades. The first two data collection waves yielded self‐reported delinquency and combined delinquency seriousness scores (the combined scores based on information from boy, mother, and teacher) for the middle sample (up to an average age of 10.7 years) and oldest samp…
Resilient, overcontrolled, and undercontrolled boys: Three replicable personality types
Three replicable personality types were identified in a sample of 300 adolescent boys and shown to generalize across African Americans and Caucasians. The types had conceptually coherent relations with the Big Five dimensions, ego resiliency, and ego control, and converged with three of the types identified by J. Block (1971). The behavioral implications of the types were explored using several independent data sources. Resilients were intelligen…
Data Collection and Management: A Practical Guide
Introduction Planning and Budget Hiring Training of Interviewers Participant Acquisition and Retention Supervision of Interviewers Data Management Quality Control and Research Ethics
The "Little Five": Exploring the Nomological Network of the Five-Factor Model of Personality in Adolescent Boys
Oliver P. John, Avshalom Caspi, Richard W. Robins, Terrie E. Moffitt, Magda Stouthamer-Loeber, The "Little Five": Exploring the Nomological Network of the Five-Factor Model of Personality in Adolescent Boys, Child Development, Vol. 65, No. 1 (Feb., 1994), pp. 160-178
Measuring impulsivity and examining its relationship to delinquency
Internalizing Problems and Their Relation to the Development of Disruptive Behaviors in Adolescence
The study focused on the intersection between internalizing and disruptive behavior problems. Subjects were 890 inner-city boys who were enrolled in the fourth and seventh grades of public schools. The boys were followed up with six assessments over the course of 3 years. Based on earlier research, three developmental pathways toward serious disruptive behavior were considered: an overt pathway, a covert pathway, and an authority conflict pathway…
Are Some People Crime‐prone? Replications of the Personality‐crime Relationship Across Countries, Genders, Races, and Methods
We examined the relation between personality traits and crime in two studies. In New Zealand we studied 18‐year‐old males and females from an entire birth cohort. In Pittsburgh we studied an ethnically diverse group of 12‐ and 13‐year‐old boys. In both studies we gathered multiple and independent measures of personality and delinquent involvement. The personality correlates of delinquency were robust in different nations, in different age cohorts…
Explaining the relation between IQ and delinquency: Class, race, test motivation, school failure, or self-control?
Initiation, Escalation and Desistance in Juvenile Offending and Their Correlates
Pittsburgh Youth Study, Rolf Loeber, Magda Stouthamer-Loeber, Welmoet Van Kammen, David P. Farrington, Initiation, Escalation and Desistance in Juvenile Offending and Their Correlates, The Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology (1973-), Vol. 82, No. 1, Symposium on the Causes and Correlates of Juvenile Delinquency (Spring, 1991), pp. 36-82
Substance use and its relationship to conduct problems and delinquency in young boys
Family Factors as Correlates and Predictors of Juvenile Conduct Problems and Delinquency
A meta-analysis was performed of concurrent and longitudinal studies on the relation of family factors to juvenile conduct problems and delinquency. Analyses of longitudinal data show that socialization variables, such as lack of parental supervision, parental rejection, and parent-child involvement, are among the most powerful predictors of juvenile conduct problems and delinquency. Medium-strength predictors include background variables such as…
The reactive–proactive aggression questionnaire: Differential correlates of reactive and proactive aggression in adolescent boys
This study reports the development of the Reactive–Proactive Aggression Questionnaire (RPQ), and the differential correlates of these two forms of aggression. Antisocial, psychosocial and personality measures were obtained at ages 7 and 16 years in schoolboys, while the RPQ was administered to 334 of the boys at age 16 years. Confirmatory factor analysis indicated a significant fit for a two‐factor proactive–reactive model that replicated from on…
Development of juvenile aggression and violence: Some common misconceptions and controversies
Family Factors as Correlates and Predictors of Juvenile Conduct Problems and Delinquency
A meta-analysis was performed of concurrent and longitudinal studies on the relation of family factors to juvenile conduct problems and delinquency. Analyses of longitudinal data show that socialization variables, such as lack of parental supervision, parental rejection, and parent-child involvement, are among the most powerful predictors of juvenile conduct problems and delinquency. Medium-strength predictors include background variables such as…
Are Some People Crime‐prone? Replications of the Personality‐crime Relationship Across Countries, Genders, Races, and Methods
We examined the relation between personality traits and crime in two studies. In New Zealand we studied 18‐year‐old males and females from an entire birth cohort. In Pittsburgh we studied an ethnically diverse group of 12‐ and 13‐year‐old boys. In both studies we gathered multiple and independent measures of personality and delinquent involvement. The personality correlates of delinquency were robust in different nations, in different age cohorts…
Self‐reported Delinquency and a Combined Delinquency Seriousness Scale Based on Boys, Mothers, and Teachers: Concurrent and Predictive Validity for African‐americans and Caucasians
The Pittsburgh Youth Study is a prospective longitudinal survey of three samples of Pittsburgh boys (each containing about 500 boys) initially studied in first, fourth, and seventh grades. The first two data collection waves yielded self‐reported delinquency and combined delinquency seriousness scores (the combined scores based on information from boy, mother, and teacher) for the middle sample (up to an average age of 10.7 years) and oldest samp…
Antisocial Behavior and Youth Gang Membership: Selection and Socialization
We examine whether gang membership is associated with higher levels of delinquency because boys predisposed to delinquent activity are more likely than others to join. We use 10 years of longitudinal data from 858 participants of the Pittsburgh Youth Study to identify periods before, during and after gang membership. We build on prior research by controlling for ages and calendar time, by better accounting for gang memberships that occurred befor…
Resilient, overcontrolled, and undercontrolled boys: Three replicable personality types
Three replicable personality types were identified in a sample of 300 adolescent boys and shown to generalize across African Americans and Caucasians. The types had conceptually coherent relations with the Big Five dimensions, ego resiliency, and ego control, and converged with three of the types identified by J. Block (1971). The behavioral implications of the types were explored using several independent data sources. Resilients were intelligen…
Developmental Shifts in Parent and Peer Influences on Boys' Beliefs About Delinquent Behavior
This paper examines the relative shifts in parent and peer influences on the development of boys' beliefs regarding delinquency from early to middle adolescence. The paper also explores the influence that beliefs about delinquency have on subsequent changes in these social relationships. Structural equation modeling is used to analyze six annual waves of data for 481 boys from the youngest sample of the Pittsburgh Youth Study. Increased parent–ad…
Substance use and its relationship to conduct problems and delinquency in young boys
La prédiction de la délinquance
The paper presents the results of a meta-analysis to analyze which predictors of delinquency in males and females are consistently evident from longitudinal studies, and how the predictors compare in their predictive efficiency. The results show that a variety of conduct problems but also conditions within the family are predictive of later delinquency in general, recidivism, or serious offenses. As a rule, composite indicators of risk factors ou…
Internalizing Problems and Their Relation to the Development of Disruptive Behaviors in Adolescence
The study focused on the intersection between internalizing and disruptive behavior problems. Subjects were 890 inner-city boys who were enrolled in the fourth and seventh grades of public schools. The boys were followed up with six assessments over the course of 3 years. Based on earlier research, three developmental pathways toward serious disruptive behavior were considered: an overt pathway, a covert pathway, and an authority conflict pathway…
Do as you’re told! Facets of agreeableness and early adult outcomes for inner-city boys
The Correlation of Family Management Practices and Delinquency
Family-management skills of parents of seventh- and tenth-grade boys were related to each of 2 criterion measures of delinquency: police contacts and self-reported delinquency. The measures of family-management skills were monitoring, discipline, problem solving, and reinforcement. The measures of parent monitoring and discipline were shown to correlate significantly with both criterion measures. The monitoring score accounted for the most varian…
Family Factors as Correlates and Predictors of Juvenile Conduct Problems and Delinquency
A meta-analysis was performed of concurrent and longitudinal studies on the relation of family factors to juvenile conduct problems and delinquency. Analyses of longitudinal data show that socialization variables, such as lack of parental supervision, parental rejection, and parent-child involvement, are among the most powerful predictors of juvenile conduct problems and delinquency. Medium-strength predictors include background variables such as…
Initiation, Escalation and Desistance in Juvenile Offending and Their Correlates
Pittsburgh Youth Study, Rolf Loeber, Magda Stouthamer-Loeber, Welmoet Van Kammen, David P. Farrington, Initiation, Escalation and Desistance in Juvenile Offending and Their Correlates, The Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology (1973-), Vol. 82, No. 1, Symposium on the Causes and Correlates of Juvenile Delinquency (Spring, 1991), pp. 36-82
Substance use and its relationship to conduct problems and delinquency in young boys
Explaining the relation between IQ and delinquency: Class, race, test motivation, school failure, or self-control?
The "Little Five": Exploring the Nomological Network of the Five-Factor Model of Personality in Adolescent Boys
Oliver P. John, Avshalom Caspi, Richard W. Robins, Terrie E. Moffitt, Magda Stouthamer-Loeber, The "Little Five": Exploring the Nomological Network of the Five-Factor Model of Personality in Adolescent Boys, Child Development, Vol. 65, No. 1 (Feb., 1994), pp. 160-178
Measuring impulsivity and examining its relationship to delinquency
Internalizing Problems and Their Relation to the Development of Disruptive Behaviors in Adolescence
The study focused on the intersection between internalizing and disruptive behavior problems. Subjects were 890 inner-city boys who were enrolled in the fourth and seventh grades of public schools. The boys were followed up with six assessments over the course of 3 years. Based on earlier research, three developmental pathways toward serious disruptive behavior were considered: an overt pathway, a covert pathway, and an authority conflict pathway…
Are Some People Crime‐prone? Replications of the Personality‐crime Relationship Across Countries, Genders, Races, and Methods
We examined the relation between personality traits and crime in two studies. In New Zealand we studied 18‐year‐old males and females from an entire birth cohort. In Pittsburgh we studied an ethnically diverse group of 12‐ and 13‐year‐old boys. In both studies we gathered multiple and independent measures of personality and delinquent involvement. The personality correlates of delinquency were robust in different nations, in different age cohorts…
Data Collection and Management: A Practical Guide
Introduction Planning and Budget Hiring Training of Interviewers Participant Acquisition and Retention Supervision of Interviewers Data Management Quality Control and Research Ethics
Delay of Gratification, Psychopathology, and Personality: Is Low Self‐Control Specific to Externaiizing Problems
We assessed the delay of gratification behavior of 428 twelve and thirteen‐year‐old boys, half of whom were known to manifest symptoms of behavioral disturbance. Consistent with the hypothesis that low self‐control is a risk factor specific to externalizing (aggressive and delinquent) disorders, boys who showed signs of externalizing disorders tended to seek immediate gratification in a laboratory task more often than both nondisordered boys and …
Self‐reported Delinquency and a Combined Delinquency Seriousness Scale Based on Boys, Mothers, and Teachers: Concurrent and Predictive Validity for African‐americans and Caucasians
The Pittsburgh Youth Study is a prospective longitudinal survey of three samples of Pittsburgh boys (each containing about 500 boys) initially studied in first, fourth, and seventh grades. The first two data collection waves yielded self‐reported delinquency and combined delinquency seriousness scores (the combined scores based on information from boy, mother, and teacher) for the middle sample (up to an average age of 10.7 years) and oldest samp…
Resilient, overcontrolled, and undercontrolled boys: Three replicable personality types
Three replicable personality types were identified in a sample of 300 adolescent boys and shown to generalize across African Americans and Caucasians. The types had conceptually coherent relations with the Big Five dimensions, ego resiliency, and ego control, and converged with three of the types identified by J. Block (1971). The behavioral implications of the types were explored using several independent data sources. Resilients were intelligen…
Antisocial Behavior and Mental Health Problems: Explanatory Factors in Childhood and Adolescence
Epidemiological surveys have provided key information about the prevalence and degree of seriousness at different ages of a wide array of problem behaviors such as delinquency, substance use, early sexual involvement, and mental health disorders. Knowledge of the extent of these problems and changes in their course over time is important. In its absence, interventions and health planning in general can be difficult. Understanding which risk and p…
Development of juvenile aggression and violence: Some common misconceptions and controversies
Patterns and correlates of agreement between parent, teacher, and male adolescent ratings of externalizing and internalizing problems.
The authors examined how well 394 triads of male youths, caregivers, and teachers agreed about youth problems reported on the Achenbach checklists. Dyadic agreement was measured through difference scores (subtracting the raw score of youth self-report from the caregiver's or teacher's score for shared items), q correlations between pairs of raters across items, and D2 (generalized distance between item profiles) for both externalizing and interna…
The concentration of offenders in families, and family criminality in the prediction of boys' delinquency
Risk and promotive effects in the explanation of persistent serious delinquency in boys.
Participants were studied over ages 13-19 years for the oldest sample and 7-13 years for the youngest sample.Risk and promotive effects were studied in 6 domains: child behavior, child attitudes, school and leisure activities, peer behaviors, family functioning, and demographics.Regression models improved when promotive effects were included with risk effects in predicting persistent serious delinquency.Disadvantaged neighborhoods, compared with …
Dublin and its vicinity in 1797
This paper presents an hitherto unnoticed travel journal, describing Dublin and its vicinity in the summer and autumn of 1797. Its anonymous author, P.S., had a keen eye for architecture and describes many public buildings in the metropolis, such as the newly built Custom House and the Four Courts. In and outside of the city, he gives an account of private mansions, such as Leinster House, Charlemont House, Castletown House, Carton, and Lord Char…
Antisocial Behavior and Youth Gang Membership: Selection and Socialization
We examine whether gang membership is associated with higher levels of delinquency because boys predisposed to delinquent activity are more likely than others to join. We use 10 years of longitudinal data from 858 participants of the Pittsburgh Youth Study to identify periods before, during and after gang membership. We build on prior research by controlling for ages and calendar time, by better accounting for gang memberships that occurred befor…
Developmental Shifts in Parent and Peer Influences on Boys' Beliefs About Delinquent Behavior
This paper examines the relative shifts in parent and peer influences on the development of boys' beliefs regarding delinquency from early to middle adolescence. The paper also explores the influence that beliefs about delinquency have on subsequent changes in these social relationships. Structural equation modeling is used to analyze six annual waves of data for 481 boys from the youngest sample of the Pittsburgh Youth Study. Increased parent–ad…
La prédiction de la délinquance
The paper presents the results of a meta-analysis to analyze which predictors of delinquency in males and females are consistently evident from longitudinal studies, and how the predictors compare in their predictive efficiency. The results show that a variety of conduct problems but also conditions within the family are predictive of later delinquency in general, recidivism, or serious offenses. As a rule, composite indicators of risk factors ou…
The reactive–proactive aggression questionnaire: Differential correlates of reactive and proactive aggression in adolescent boys
This study reports the development of the Reactive–Proactive Aggression Questionnaire (RPQ), and the differential correlates of these two forms of aggression. Antisocial, psychosocial and personality measures were obtained at ages 7 and 16 years in schoolboys, while the RPQ was administered to 334 of the boys at age 16 years. Confirmatory factor analysis indicated a significant fit for a two‐factor proactive–reactive model that replicated from on…
Longitudinal evidence that psychopathy scores in early adolescence predict adult psychopathy.
This study examined the relation between psychopathy assessed at age 13 by using the mother-reported Childhood Psychopathy Scale (D. R. Lynam, 1997) and psychopathy assessed at age 24 by using the interviewer-rated Psychopathy Checklist: Screening Version (PCL:SV; S. D. Hart, D. N. Cox, & R. D. Hare, 1995). Data from over 250 participants of the middle sample of the Pittsburgh Youth Study were used to examine this relation; approximately 9% of th…
Violence and Serious Theft: Development and Prediction from Childhood to Adulthood
Part I: Introduction and Methods. Introduction and Key Questions. The Pittsburgh Youth Study: Its Design, Data Collection, and Early Key Findings. Measurement Instruments and Constructs. Part II: Epidemiology of Violence, Serious Theft, Substance Use, Drug Dealing and Gang Membership. The Age-Crime Curve in Reported Offending. Comparing Arrests and Convictions with Reported Offending. Substance Use, Drug Dealing, Gang Membership, and Gun Carrying…
Psychology (24 works) · Developmental psychology (22 works) · Juvenile delinquency (14 works) · Social Psychology (12 works) · Clinical Psychology (11 works) · Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development (10 works) · Crime Patterns and Interventions (8 works) · Medicine (7 works) · Personality (7 works) · Poison control (7 works)