Pubertal Development, Spare Time Activities, and Adolescent Delinquency: Testing the Contextual Amplification Hypothesis

Journal of Youth and Adolescence

Volumn 43, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 1346-1360

  Kretschmer, Tina ^a   Oliver, Bonamy R ^b,c   Maughan, Barbara ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

^c KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

ALSPAC; Delinquency; Latent growth model; Pubertal development

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT BEHAVIOR; AGE; CHILD; CHILD PSYCHOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; JUVENILE DELINQUENCY; LEISURE; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; PSYCHOLOGY; PUBERTY; RISK FACTOR; SELF REPORT; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; UNITED KINGDOM;

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT BEHAVIOR; AGE FACTORS; CHILD; FEMALE; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; JUVENILE DELINQUENCY; LEISURE ACTIVITIES; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PSYCHOLOGY, ADOLESCENT; PUBERTY; RISK FACTORS; SELF REPORT;

EID: 84903746566     PISSN: 00472891     EISSN: 15736601     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10964-013-0074-7     Document Type: Article

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