The goal of the first model was to evaluate the stability of social competence, internalizing and externalizing problems across the four developmental periods. The path analysis supports substantial stability across all of the investigated domains. Children with high externalizing, internalizing, and social competence at T1 were predicted to show similarly high levels in these domains at subsequent time points up to late adolescence. Similarly, early adolescence (i.e., Time 3 [T3]) CAD symptoms significantly predicted positive symptoms in late adolescence at Wave 4.
