Problem coping skills, psychosocial adversities and mental health problems in children and adolescents as predictors of criminal outcomes in young adulthood

European Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 283-293

  Aebi, Marcel ^a   Giger, Joël ^a   Plattner, Belinda ^a   Metzke, Christa Winkler ^a   Steinhausen, Hans Christoph ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b AALBORG UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Adolescence; Adult crime; Alcohol use; Coping; Externalizing behaviour problems

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ALCOHOL ABUSE; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILD PSYCHIATRY; CHILD PSYCHOLOGY; COPING BEHAVIOR; CRIME; CRIMINAL BEHAVIOR; DELINQUENCY; DRUG ABUSE; FAMILY STRESS; FEMALE; HUMAN; JUVENILE DELINQUENCY; LIFE EVENTS SCALE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL HEALTH; MENTAL STRESS; OFFENDER; PREDICTION; PROBLEM SOLVING; RURAL AREA; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SUBSTANCE USE; SWITZERLAND; URBAN AREA; ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADOLESCENT BEHAVIOR; CONTROL; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; ETHNIC GROUP; MENTAL DISORDERS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PREVALENCE; PSYCHOLOGY; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK FACTOR; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; SUBSTANCE-RELATED DISORDERS; YOUNG ADULT;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT BEHAVIOR; ALCOHOL DRINKING; CHILD; CRIME; CRIMINALS; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERNAL-EXTERNAL CONTROL; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MENTAL HEALTH; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK FACTORS; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SUBSTANCE-RELATED DISORDERS; SWITZERLAND; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84901322933     PISSN: 10188827     EISSN: 1435165X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00787-013-0458-y     Document Type: Article

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