Family, school, and behavioral antecedents to early adolescent involvement with antisocial peers.

Dishion, Thomas J.; Patterson, Gerald R.; Stoolmiller, Mike; Skinner, Martie L.

doi:10.1037/0012-1649.27.1.172

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“…Low levels of parental behavioral control have been associated with child and adolescent externalizing symptoms, including conduct disorder, drug use, and delinquency (e.g., Chilcoat, Beslau, & Anthony, 1996;Dishion, Patterson, Stoolmiller, & Skinner, 1991;Gray & Steinberg, 1999), whereas high levels of behavioral control have acted as buffers against child and adolescent disruptive behaviors (e.g., Pettit, Laird, Dodge, Bates, & Criss, 2001). From a theoretical perspective, the link between higher levels of behavioral control and lower levels of child externalizing behaviors has been ascribed to the fact that parents who exert firm and consistent limits foster self-regulation and compliance in their children and adolescents; alternatively, lax control and inconsistent monitoring deprive children of valuable learning experiences necessary for the development of emotional and behavioral control (Hart, Newell, & Olsen, 2003).…”

Section: Individual Parenting Behaviorsmentioning

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Parenting and child externalizing behaviors: Are the associations specific or diffuse?

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Colletti

Rakow

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Aggression and Violent Behavior

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Building upon the link between inadequate parenting and child noncompliance, aggression, and oppositionality, behavioral parent training has been identified as a well-established treatment for externalizing problems in children. Much less empirical attention has been devoted to examining whether inadequate parenting and, in turn, behavioral parent training programs, have specific effects on child externalizing problems or more diffuse effects on both internalizing and externalizing problems. As an initial attempt to examine the specificity of parenting and childhood externalizing problems, this review examines prior research on the association of three parenting behaviors (parental warmth, hostility, and control) with child externalizing versus internalizing problems. Notably, findings revealed relatively little evidence for the specificity of parenting and child externalizing behaviors in the general parenting literature or in the family context of parent depression. Clinical implications and directions for future research are discussed.

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Section: Individual Parenting Behaviorsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Parenting and child externalizing behaviors: Are the associations specific or diffuse?

McKee

Colletti

Rakow

et al. 2008

Aggression and Violent Behavior

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119

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“…Indeed, there is considerable evidence that early academic failure is predictive of later internalizing and externalizing problems (Cole et al 1996;Dishion et al 1991;Patterson et al 1998). Adequate performance in school is a salient developmental task of childhood and adolescence (Masten and Curtis 2000) and academic difficulties can interfere with functioning in other domains (Masten et al 2005).…”

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Friendships with Peers Who are Low or High in Aggression as Moderators of the Link between Peer Victimization and Declines in Academic Functioning

Schwartz

Gorman

Dodge

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J Abnorm Child Psychol

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This paper reports two prospective investigations of the role of friendship in the relation between peer victimization and grade point averages (GPA). Study 1 included 199 children (105 boys, 94 girls; mean age of 9.1 years) and Study 2 included 310 children (151 boys, 159 girls; mean age of 8.5 years). These children were followed for two school years. In both projects, we assessed aggression, victimization, and friendship with a peer nomination inventory, and we obtained children's GPAs from a review of school records. Peer victimization was associated with academic declines only when children had either a high number of friends who were above the classroom mean on aggression or a low number of friends who were below the classroom mean on aggression. These results highlight the importance of aggression levels among friends for the academic adjustment of victimized children. KeywordsPeer relationships; Academic functioning; Friendship; Peer victimization There is growing evidence that children who experience frequent mistreatment by peers are at risk for deficient academic performance and other related forms of school maladjustment. Children who are persistently targeted for bullying may develop negative attitudes toward school and, as a result, disengage from the academic environment (Kochenderfer and Ladd 1996a, b). Victimization by peers can also lead to feelings of loneliness and depression that interfere with concentration and focus in the classroom (Juvonen et al. 2000;Schwartz et al. 2005). In addition, peer victimization has been linked to the emergence of disruptive behavior disorders and other impairments in self-regulation (Schwartz et al. 1998) that can detract from classroom performance (Wentzel 1991). Not surprisingly, a number of researchers have reported modest associations between victimization in the peer group and poor achievement NIH-PA Author ManuscriptNIH-PA Author Manuscript NIH-PA Author Manuscript (Buhs and Ladd 2001;Juvonen et al. 2000) although the availability of relevant longitudinal data is currently limited.The negative impact of peer group victimization on academic functioning is important to consider because school maladjustment can portend dysfunction later in life. Indeed, there is considerable evidence that early academic failure is predictive of later internalizing and externalizing problems (Cole et al. 1996;Dishion et al. 1991;Patterson et al. 1998). Adequate performance in school is a salient developmental task of childhood and adolescence (Masten and Curtis 2000) and academic difficulties can interfere with functioning in other domains (Masten et al. 2005).The existing findings have provided some insight into the pathways through which victimization in the peer group might influence academic outcomes. However, research in this area has relied primarily on main-effect models of risk. Such models incorporate the assumption that there is a linear relation between exposure to victimization by peers and academic functioning difficulties. Victimization in the peer gr...

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“…For example, poor parental monitoring increases youth's opportunity to associate with delinquent peers. Not surprisingly, poor parental monitoring and ineffective, inconsistent discipline are related to concurrent and later delinquency and violent behavior (Capaldi & Patterson, 1996;Dishion, Patterson, Stoolmiller, & Skinner, 1991;Elliott, Huizinga, & Ageton, 1985;Gorman-Smith, Tolan, Zelli, & Huesmann, 1996;Patterson, Reid, & Dishion, 1992). These outcomes, in turn, have been associated with increased risk for community violence exposure (Centers & Weist, 1998;Lauritsen et al, 1992).…”

Section: Moderating Effects Of Peers and Familymentioning

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Risk Factors for Community Violence Exposure in Adolescence

Lambert

Ialongo

Boyd

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American Journal of Community Psychology

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Community violence is recognized a significant public health problem. However, only a paucity of research has examined risk factors for community violence exposure across domains relevant to adolescents or using longitudinal data. This study examined youth aggressive behavior in relation to community violence exposure among a community epidemiologically defined sample of 582 (45% female) urban adolescents. Internalizing behaviors, deviant peer affiliation, and parental monitoring were examined as moderators of the association between aggressive behavior and exposure to community violence. For males with aggressive behavior problems and deviant peer affiliation or low parental monitoring, co-occurring anxiety symptoms protected against subsequent witnessing community violence. In contrast, males with aggressive behavior problems and co-occurring depressive symptoms were at increased risk for witnessing community violence. Implications of the findings for preventive interventions and future research are discussed.KEY WORDS: community violence exposure; deviant peer affiliation; aggression; adolescence.Youth exposure to community violence as witnesses or victims is a significant public health problem with negative consequences for several aspects of youth adjustment. Community violence exposure in youth has been associated with difficulties in emotional, behavioral, and adaptive functioning including depression, anxiety, posttraumatic stress disorder, aggression, poor academic functioning and achievement, and health problems (Cooley-Quille,

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Family, school, and behavioral antecedents to early adolescent involvement with antisocial peers.

Cited by 857 publications

References 34 publications

Parenting and child externalizing behaviors: Are the associations specific or diffuse?

Parenting and child externalizing behaviors: Are the associations specific or diffuse?

Friendships with Peers Who are Low or High in Aggression as Moderators of the Link between Peer Victimization and Declines in Academic Functioning

Risk Factors for Community Violence Exposure in Adolescence

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