The Adult Criminal as Juvenile

Stott, D. H.; Wilson, David

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“…Moreover, the scale's validity has been supported through a series of retrospective, concurrent, and predictive criterion studies (McDemott, 1981a;Stott, 1978Stott, , 1979Stott and Wilson, 1977;Wilson, 1974).…”

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Generality Of Disordered Behavior Across Populations Of Normal And Deviant School Children: Factorial Relations Analyses

McDermott¹

1982

Multivariate Behavioral Research

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Section: Instrumentationmentioning

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Generality Of Disordered Behavior Across Populations Of Normal And Deviant School Children: Factorial Relations Analyses

McDermott¹

1982

Multivariate Behavioral Research

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“…The clinical utility of the BSAG has been demonstrated through a number of retrospective, concurrent and predictive validity studies (Stott, 1978(Stott, , 1979Stott & Wilson, 1977). Moreover, the factorial integrity of the overall adjustment scales and unique contributions of the core syndromes have been supported through factor analytic studies involving kindergarten level children (McDermott & Watkins, 1981), 10-year-olds (Wilson, 1973), and a combined cohort of significantly maladjusted children and adolescents (McDermott, 1981).…”

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The manifestation of problem behaviour in ten age groups of Canadian school children.

McDermott¹

1981

Canadian Journal of Behavioural Science / Revue canadienne des

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The revised Bristol Social Adjustment Guides (BSAG) are used widely in clinical and research settings for initial recognition and classification of disturbed child behaviour. Conventional applications of the BSAG are based upon the premise that dimensions of manifest problem behaviour have generality across the age groups represented in the normative population and that the scale's various behavioural syndromes reflect distinct types of maladjustment. To test these assumptions, the BSAG'S standardization sample of 2,463 randomly selected Canadian school children was partitioned into 10 subsets of one-year age intervals from 5 to 14 years. For each independent subset, children's scores on the BSAG'S six core syndromes and two associated groupings of malbehaviour were subjected to principal components factor analysis with varimax rotation of selected factors. A similar two-factor model emerged at every age level with one factor denning a dimension of general overreaction and the other a dimension of general underreaction. The findings support the practice of using the BSAG'S composite over-and underreactive adjustment scales as primary indicators of maladjustment, and, furthermore, illuminate the cross-age patterns of continuous and varying specificity of the scale's component behavioural syndromes.Recent advances in the application of empirical classification procedures (Edelbrock & Achenbach, 1980;McDermott, 1980) have provided systems for reliable observation and analysis of children's social and behavioural disturbance. These systems rely upon information obtained through standardized rating scales completed by contextually-knowledgeable and unobtrusive observers such as parents and classroom teachers. One of the more popular rating scales, the Bristol Social Adjustment Guides (BSAG), has gained international interest, due largely to its behaviourally-oriented item content, criterion validity, and recent refinement and restandardization with 2,527 Canadian school children. The BSAG goes further than many other instruments in claiming to measure types of problem behaviour beyond the traditional acting-out vs. withdrawn dichotomy described by Peterson (1961) and Rutter (1967) and, moreover, holds the generality of behavioural disturbance to be fairly constant throughout elementary school years. This study is undertaken to test the verity of such claims.The revised BSAG is composed of 110 brief verbal terms and phrases which teachers may employ to describe children's ongoing behaviour problems in the The author wishes to thank Dr. Denis H. Stott, emeritus professor and former department head in psychology at the University of Guelph, Ontario, for kindly making the revised Bristol Social

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“…Magnusson et al (1983) found that at age 26, 87% of all persons in their sample who oommitted four or more offenses had been given aggressiveness soores of five or higher (on a soale from one to eight) in their early sohool years. (1978, MoCord and MoCord (1959), Petersilia et ale (1978), Peterson, Braiker, and Polich (1980), Robins and Wish (1977), Rojek and Erickson (1982), Shannon (1982), Sinolair and Clarke (1982), Stott and Wilson (1977), and Wolfgang et ale (1987). found that 75% of her sample were arrested between ages 31 and 43, and 49% had at least three arrests as adults.…”

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Cross-National Research in Self-Reported Crime and Delinquency

Klein¹

1989

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The Adult Criminal as Juvenile

Cited by 21 publications

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Generality Of Disordered Behavior Across Populations Of Normal And Deviant School Children: Factorial Relations Analyses

Generality Of Disordered Behavior Across Populations Of Normal And Deviant School Children: Factorial Relations Analyses

The manifestation of problem behaviour in ten age groups of Canadian school children.

Cross-National Research in Self-Reported Crime and Delinquency

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