Individual in Context: The Role of Impulse Control on the Association between the Home, School, and Neighborhood Developmental Contexts and Adolescent Delinquency

Journal of Youth and Adolescence

Volumn 46, Issue 7, 2017, Pages 1488-1502

  Fine, Adam ^a   Mahler, Alissa ^a   Steinberg, Laurence ^b,c   Frick, Paul J ^d,e   Cauffman, Elizabeth ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b TEMPLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c KING ABDULAZIZ UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

^d LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e AUSTRALIAN CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Adolescence; Delinquency; Developmental contexts; Impulsivity

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENCE; ADOLESCENT; HISPANIC; HUMAN; IMPULSIVENESS; JUVENILE DELINQUENCY; NEIGHBORHOOD; RACE; RISK FACTOR; SCIENTIST; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; IMPULSE CONTROL DISORDER; INDIVIDUALITY; LEGISLATION AND JURISPRUDENCE; MALE; MINORITY GROUP; PSYCHOLOGY; SCHOOL; SOCIAL CHANGE; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT;

ADOLESCENT; DISRUPTIVE, IMPULSE CONTROL, AND CONDUCT DISORDERS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIVIDUALITY; JUVENILE DELINQUENCY; MALE; MINORITY GROUPS; RISK FACTORS; SCHOOLS; SOCIAL CHANGE; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT;

EID: 84988712411     PISSN: 00472891     EISSN: 15736601     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10964-016-0565-4     Document Type: Article

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