Cross-informant agreement about bullying and victimization among eight-year-olds: Whose information best predicts psychiatric caseness 10-15 years later?

Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 15-22

  Rønning, John A ^a,b   Sourander, Andre ^a,c   Kumpulainen, Kirsti ^d   Tamminen, Tuula ^e   Niemelä, Solja ^c   Moilanen, Irma ^f   Helenius, Hans ^g   Piha, Jorma ^c   Almqvist, Fredrik ^h  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF NORTH NORWAY   (Norway)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

^e TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

^f UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

^g TURKU UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^h UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

Bullying; Cross informant agreement; Prediction; Psychopathology; Victimization

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; AGGRESSION; CHILD; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CRIME VICTIMS; FACULTY; FINLAND; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PARENTS; PSYCHOPATHOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 59349099779     PISSN: 09337954     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00127-008-0395-0     Document Type: Article

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