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Citation

Whitney SD, Renner LM, Herrenkohl TI. J. Genet. Psychol. 2010; 171(2): 116-138.

Affiliation

University of Missouri, ESCP, 16 Hill Hall, Columbia, MO 65211, USA. whitneyst@missouri.edu

Copyright

(Copyright © 2010, Informa - Taylor and Francis Group)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

20486400

PMCID

PMC2950864

Abstract

How likely are children exposed to multiple risk factors to engage in delinquent behavior, to what extent do promotive factors mitigate exposure to these risk factors, and do the predictors of delinquent behavior differ by gender? To address these questions, the authors analyzed data from youths (229 boys, 187 girls) who completed the third wave of the Lehigh Longitudinal Study using Latent Profile Analysis. A unique risk and promotive class with slightly elevated rates of exposure to parental violence, mean levels of other risk factors and low levels of promotive factors was present for girls but not for boys. Additionally, for boys and girls, high-risk, low-promotive individuals were significantly more likely to engage in delinquent behavior than low-risk, high-promotive cases. Findings suggest the need to examine risk and promotive factors in combination to account for their shared influences on developmental outcomes for youth.


Language: en

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