Normative developmental trajectories of aggressive behaviors in African American, American Indian, Asian American, Caucasian, and Hispanic children and early adolescents

Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology

Volumn 35, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1047-1062

  Vazsonyi, Alexander T ^a   Keiley, Margaret K ^a  

^a AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aggressive behavior; Developmental trajectories; Ethnicity; Race; SEM; Two part latent growth models

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGGRESSIVENESS; AMERICAN INDIAN; ARTICLE; ASIAN AMERICAN; BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE; ELEMENTARY STUDENT; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; ETHNICITY; EUROPEAN AMERICAN; FEMALE; HISPANIC; HUMAN; LATENT PERIOD; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE SCHOOL STUDENT; PREPUBERTY; PROBABILITY; SCHOOL CHILD; SOCIALIZATION; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT BEHAVIOR; AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGGRESSION; ARIZONA; ASIAN AMERICANS; CHILD; CHILD BEHAVIOR DISORDERS; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; ETHNIC GROUPS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FACULTY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; INDIANS, NORTH AMERICAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PREVALENCE; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 34748889897     PISSN: 00910627     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10802-007-9154-z     Document Type: Article

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