@article{ref1,
title="Peer rejection, aggressive or withdrawn behavior, and psychological maladjustment from ages 5 to 12: an examination of four predictive models",
journal="Child development",
year="2006",
author="Ladd, Gary W.",
volume="77",
number="4",
pages="822-846",
abstract="Findings yielded a comprehensive portrait of the predictive relations among children's aggressive or withdrawn behaviors, peer rejection, and psychological maladjustment across the 5-12 age period. Examination of peer rejection in different variable contexts and across repeated intervals throughout childhood revealed differences in the timing, strength, and consistency of this risk factor as a distinct (additive) predictor of externalizing versus internalizing problems. In conjunction with aggressive behavior, peer rejection proved to be a stronger additive predictor of externalizing problems during early rather than later childhood. Relative to withdrawn behavior, rejection's efficacy as a distinct predictor of internalizing problems was significant early in childhood and increased progressively thereafter. These additive path models fit the data better than did disorder-driven or transactional models.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0009-3920",
doi="10.1111/j.1467-8624.2006.00905.x",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8624.2006.00905.x"
}