The three latent classes of adolescent delinquency and the risk factors for membership in each class

Aggressive Behavior

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 19-35

  Hasking, Penelope Anne ^a   Scheier, Lawrence M ^b,c   Abdallah, Arbi ben ^c  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b LARS Research Institute Inc   (United States)

^c WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Delinquency; Inhibition; Latent class analysis; Multinomial regression

Indexed keywords

ADDICTION; ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CLASSIFICATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; JUVENILE DELINQUENCY; MALE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK FACTOR; SELF REPORT; SEX DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL MODEL; VIOLENCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT BEHAVIOR; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMANS; JUVENILE DELINQUENCY; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK FACTORS; SELF REPORT; SEX FACTORS; SUBSTANCE-RELATED DISORDERS; VIOLENCE;

EID: 78650044072     PISSN: 0096140X     EISSN: 10982337     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ab.20365     Document Type: Article

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