Assessing covariates of adolescent delinquency trajectories: A latent growth mixture modeling approach

Journal of Youth and Adolescence

Volumn 33, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 431-442

  Wiesner, Margit ^a   Windle, Michael ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^b Prof Psychol Director Ctr Adv Y

Author keywords

adolescence; delinquency; longitudinal; trajectories

Indexed keywords

EID: 4444223398     PISSN: 00472891     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:JOYO.0000037635.06937.13     Document Type: Article

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