Citation

Broidy LM, Nagin DS, Tremblay RE, Bates JE, Brame B, Dodge KA, Fergusson D, Horwood JL, Loeber R, Laird R, Lynam DR, Moffitt TE, Pettit GS, Vitaro F. Dev. Psychol. 2003; 39(2): 222-245.

Affiliation

Department of Sociology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque 87131, USA. lbroidy@unm.edu

Comment In:

Dev Psychol 2003;39(2):372-8

Copyright

(Copyright © 2003, American Psychological Association)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

12661883

PMCID

PMC2753823

Abstract

This study used data from 6 sites and 3 countries to examine the developmental course of physical aggression in childhood and to analyze its linkage to violent and nonviolent offending outcomes in adolescence. The results indicate that among boys there is continuity in problem behavior from childhood to adolescence and that such continuity is especially acute when early problem behavior takes the form of physical aggression. Chronic physical aggression during the elementary school years specifically increases the risk for continued physical violence as well as other nonviolent forms of delinquency during adolescence. However, this conclusion is reserved primarily for boys, because the results indicate no clear linkage between childhood physical aggression and adolescent offending among female samples despite notable similarities across male and female samples in the developmental course of physical aggression in childhood.

Language: en