TY - CHAP
T1 - Transactional pathways in the development of externalizing behaviors in a sample of kindergarten children with impaired self-control
AU - Vaughn, Michael G.
AU - Perron, Brian E.
AU - Beaver, Kevin M.
AU - DeLisi, Matt
AU - Wexler, Jade
N1 - Copyright:
Copyright 2014 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2011
Y1 - 2011
N2 - Problems relating to self-regulatory skills, interpersonal skills, and learning difficulties place children at increased risk for persistent externalizing behaviors. However, less is known about the antecedents of externalizing behavior in children most at-risk for antisocial behavior over the life-course. The current study used longitudinal data from 1,594 children previously shown to have severe behavioral problems selected from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Survey, Kindergarten Class (ECLS-K) to examine these developmental pathways. Structural equation modeling showed that learning problems, fine motor problems, and gross motor problems occurring at wave 1 were interrelated and variously predictive of self-control deficits and interpersonal deficits at wave 2. Both self-control and interpersonal deficits at wave 2 significantly predicted externalizing behaviors at wave 4. The findings add to an accumulating knowledge base indicating that externalizing behaviors are importantly related to learning, motor, interpersonal, and self-control deficits.
AB - Problems relating to self-regulatory skills, interpersonal skills, and learning difficulties place children at increased risk for persistent externalizing behaviors. However, less is known about the antecedents of externalizing behavior in children most at-risk for antisocial behavior over the life-course. The current study used longitudinal data from 1,594 children previously shown to have severe behavioral problems selected from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Survey, Kindergarten Class (ECLS-K) to examine these developmental pathways. Structural equation modeling showed that learning problems, fine motor problems, and gross motor problems occurring at wave 1 were interrelated and variously predictive of self-control deficits and interpersonal deficits at wave 2. Both self-control and interpersonal deficits at wave 2 significantly predicted externalizing behaviors at wave 4. The findings add to an accumulating knowledge base indicating that externalizing behaviors are importantly related to learning, motor, interpersonal, and self-control deficits.
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M3 - Chapter
AN - SCOPUS:84892065189
SN - 9781616683849
SP - 41
EP - 54
BT - Control Theory and its Applications
PB - Nova Science Publishers, Inc.
ER -