A developmental test of the general deviance syndrome with adjudicated girls and boys using hierarchical confirmatory factor analysis

Criminal Behaviour and Mental Health

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 81-105

  Le Blanc, Marc ^a   Bouthillier, Christiane ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; CANADA; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; DEVELOPMENTAL TEST; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; FEMALE; GENERAL DEVIANCE SYNDROME; HIERARCHICAL CONFIRMATORY FACTOR ANALYSIS; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION; ONSET AGE; SCHOOL CHILD; SEX DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; SYNDROME DELINEATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT BEHAVIOR; AGE OF ONSET; CHILD; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CRIME; CULTURAL CHARACTERISTICS; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PSYCHOMETRICS; SYNDROME;

EID: 0242329345     PISSN: 09579664     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cbm.533     Document Type: Article

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