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Chunk #32 — RESULTS — What Life-Course-Persistent Aggression Predicts

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Continuity of aggression from childhood to early adulthood as a predictor of life outcomes: implications for the adolescent-limited and life-course-persistent models.
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Table IV reports the average scores of each trajectory group on the age 48 outcome measures of interest. It is very clear from these data that the life-course-persistent high aggressives had consistently poorer outcomes at age 48 compared with life-course-persistent low aggressives and the other groups. For example, 7% of the life-course-persistent aggressives were arrested between ages 30 and 48, whereas no one in any of the other groups was arrested during that time. The life-course-persistent aggressives also had about twice as many moving traffic violations as the nonaggressives and they scored significantly higher on general aggression and aggression toward their spouses. Forty-nine percent of them had been divorced compared with 18–22% in the other groups. They were significantly more likely to report “problems with alcohol” than the low aggressives and scored as significantly more depressed. They reported significantly worse health, and they displayed significantly lower verbal achievement, educational attainment, and occupational prestige at age 48 compared with the life-course-persistent low aggressives. Finally, they attended religious services significantly less than the low aggressives.