Growth mixture modelling in developmental psychology: Overview and demonstration of heterogeneity in developmental trajectories of adolescent antisocial behaviour

Infant and Child Development

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 609-621

  Connell, Arin M ^a   Frye, Alice A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS BOSTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Antisocial; Arrest; Conduct problems; Developmental subtyping; Latent growth mixture model

Indexed keywords

EID: 33846145696     PISSN: 15227227     EISSN: 15227219     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/icd.481     Document Type: Article

References (19)

1. Bauer, D., & Curran, P. (2003). Distributional assumptions of growth mixture models: Implications for overextraction of latent trajectory classes. Psychological Methods, 8, 338-363.
2. Biglan, A., Brennan, P., Foster, S., & Holder, D. (2004). Helping adolescents at risk: Prevention of multiple problem behaviors. New York: Guilford.
3. Bry, B. (1982). Reducing the incidence of adolescent problems through preventive interventions: One- and five-year follow-up. American Journal of Community Psychology, 10, 265-276.
4. Compas, B., Oppedisano, G., Connor, J., Gerhardt, C., Hinden, B., Achenbach, T., Hammen, C. (1997). Gender differences in depressive symptoms in adolescence: Comparison of national samples of clinically referred and nonreferred youths. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 65, 617-626.
5. Connell, A., Dishion, T., & Deater-Deckard, K. (2006). Variable- and person-centred approaches to the analysis of early adolescent substance use: Linking peer, family, and intervention effects with developmental trajectories. Merrill-Palmer Quarterly, Special issue on variable- and person-centred analysis, 52, 421-448.
6. Dishion, T., & Kavanagh, K. (2003). Intervening in adolescent problem behaviour: A family-centered approach. New York, NY: Guilford Press.
7. Farrington, D., Barnes, G., & Lambert, S. (1996). The concentration of offending in families. Legal & Criminological Psychology, 1, 47-63.
8. Irvine, A., Biglan, A., Smolkowski, K., & Ary, D. (1999). The value of the Parenting Scale for measuring the discipline practices of parents of middle school children. Behaviour Research & Therapy, 37, 127-142.
9. Jeffries, N. (2003). A note on 'Testing the number of components in a normal mixture.' Biometrika, 90, 991-994.
10. Jo, B. (2002). Statistical power in randomized intervention studies with noncompliance. Psychological Methods, 7, 178-193.
11. Moffitt, T. (1993). Adolescence-limited and life-course-persistent antisocial behaviour: A developmental taxonomy. Psychological Review, 100, 674-701.
12. Muthen, B. (2001). Latent variable mixture modeling. In G. A. Marcoulides, & R. E. Schumacker (Eds.), New developments and techniques in structural equation modeling (pp. 1-33). Mahaw, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
13. Muthen, B. (2002). Beyond SEM: General latent variable modeling. Behaviormetrika, 29, 81-117.
14. Muthen, B. (2004). Latent variable analysis: Growth mixture modeling and related techniques for longitudinal data. In D. Kaplan (Ed.), Handbook of quantitative methodology for the social sciences (pp. 345-368). Newbury Park, CA: Sage Publications.
15. Muthen, B. (2005, September). Latent class growth analysis, growth mixture analysis, and hybrids: Comments related to Nagin. Paper presented to Prevention Science & Methodology Group.
16. Muthen, B., & Muthen, L. (2000). Integrating person-centred and variable-centred analysis: Growth mixture modeling with latent trajectory classes. Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research, 24, 882-891.
17. Muthen, L., & Muthen, B. (2004). Mplus user's guide (3rd ed.). Los Angeles: Muthen & Muthen.
18. Nagin, D. (1999). Analyzing developmental trajectories: A semiparametric, group-based approach. Psychological Methods, 4, 139-157.
19. Nagin, D. (2005). Group-based modeling of development. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.