Fearlessness, stimulation-seeking, and large body size at age 3 years as early predispositions to childhood aggression at age 11 years

Archives of General Psychiatry

Volumn 55, Issue 8, 1998, Pages 745-751

  Raine, Adrian ^a   Reynolds, Chandra ^a   Venables, Peter H ^b   Mednick, Sarnoff A ^a   Farrington, David P ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGGRESSION; ANTISOCIAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; BODY SIZE; CHILD; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MAURITIUS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PSYCHOGENESIS; SCHOOL CHILD;

AGE FACTORS; AGGRESSION; ANTISOCIAL PERSONALITY DISORDER; BODY CONSTITUTION; BODY HEIGHT; BODY WEIGHT; CHILD; CHILD BEHAVIOR DISORDERS; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CRITICAL PERIOD (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MAURITIUS; TEMPERAMENT;

EID: 0031927652     PISSN: 0003990X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archpsyc.55.8.745     Document Type: Article

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