Describing and predicting developmental profiles of externalizing problems from childhood to adulthood.

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Authors: Petersen, Isaac T; Bates, John E; Dodge, Kenneth A; Lansford, Jennifer E; Pettit, Gregory S
Year: 2015
Journal: Development and psychopathology
PMID: 25166430
DOI: 10.1017/S0954579414000789
PMCID: PMC4344932

#	Section	Preview
60	Method — Measures — Predictors — Statistical Analysis	account for the effects of time over a long time span (23 years). We examined imputation…
61	Method — Measures — Predictors — Statistical Analysis	The risk factors were examined collectively via forward selection in HLM growth curves. We used…
62	Method — Measures — Predictors — Statistical Analysis	selection in at least half of the imputed data sets (10/20). First, we selected predictors of the…
63	Method — Measures — Predictors — Statistical Analysis	The predictions from the final model were then tested on illegal behavior, including arrests.…
64	Method — Measures — Predictors — Analysis of Missingness	The number of time points that participants had scores for externalizing problems was positively…
65	Results — Construct Validity Invariance	We examined whether externalizing problems showed construct validity invariance over time by…
66	Results — Construct Validity Invariance	Externalizing problems showed convergent validity across time from block 1 to block 2 (r = .65, p <…
67	Results — Describing Growth Curves of Externalizing	An unconditional means model with random intercepts was fit to the trajectories of externalizing…
68	Results — Describing Growth Curves of Externalizing	To account for the change in externalizing problems over time, an unconditional growth model was fit…
69	Results — Describing Growth Curves of Externalizing	Curvilinear forms of change were examined. Quadratic forms of change were significantly better…
70	Results — Describing Growth Curves of Externalizing	models without a quintic term (χ2[1] = 0.64, p = .423), so we chose the simpler quartic model for…
71	Results — Describing Growth Curves of Externalizing	For a plot of the average quartic trajectory of externalizing problems overlaid with the means of…
72	Results — Describing Growth Curves of Externalizing	After the addition of the curvilinear effects of time, the proportional reduction in intercept…
73	Results — Predicting Growth Curves of Externalizing	Although we fit a quartic model, for easier interpretability, we only examined whether risk factors…
74	Results — Predicting Growth Curves of Externalizing	After imputation, SES was residualized by regressing SES on the other risk factors at age 5 that…
75	Results — Predicting Growth Curves of Externalizing	First, forward selection was used to select predictors of the intercepts. Second, in a separate…
76	Results — Predicting Growth Curves of Externalizing	Six variables predicted individuals’ intercepts of externalizing problems. The following…
77	Results — Predicting Growth Curves of Externalizing	Nine variables predicted individuals’ slopes of externalizing problems over time. To understand…
78	Results — Predicting Growth Curves of Externalizing	was confirmed empirically by setting the intercepts to the initial rather than ending values in a…
79	Results — Predicting Growth Curves of Externalizing	One interpretation for these effects on the slopes is that the risk factors did not have enduring…

Name	Type
Achenbach forms local	phenotype
Achenbach scales local	drug
actuarial model local	drug
adolescents	cohort
adulthood	cohort
Adulthood (19-27 years) local	cohort
African American	cohort
Age 27 adults local	cohort
aggression	phenotype
alcohol	phenotype
Alcohol/drug problem local	phenotype
amount of non-maternal childcare local	phenotype
amount of television watched local	phenotype
Antisocial conduct problems local	phenotype
antisocial personality disorder	phenotype
arrest	phenotype
arrests	phenotype
Attitudes toward aggression local	phenotype
behavioral disorders	phenotype
behavior problems	phenotype
CAQ local	cohort
CBCL Externalizing subscale local	phenotype
Child activities local	phenotype
Childcare local	phenotype
child characteristics	phenotype
Child Development Project local	cohort
Child misbehavior local	phenotype
children	cohort
Children (age 5) local	cohort
Children age 5 cohort local	cohort
Child sex local	phenotype
child temperament local	phenotype
child to adult ratio local	phenotype
cigarettes	phenotype
clinical level of externalizing problems local	phenotype
cohabiting with a non-marital partner local	phenotype
delinquency	phenotype
demographics	phenotype
developmental profiles local	phenotype
developmental psychopathology	phenotype
Difficult temperament	phenotype
discipline practices local	phenotype
Discipline strategies local	phenotype
divorce in adulthood local	phenotype
Driving while drunk local	phenotype
drug	drug
drug dependence	phenotype
Drug problem local	phenotype
drugs	drug
drunk driving	phenotype
Earlier Adolescence (11-14 years) local	cohort
Early Childhood (0-5 years) local	cohort
educational attainment	phenotype
enjoyable activity time local	phenotype
European ancestry	cohort
exposure to violence local	phenotype
Exposure to violence local	phenotype
externalizing behavior	phenotype
externalizing behavior trajectories local	phenotype
externalizing disorders	phenotype
externalizing profiles local	phenotype
Externalizing profiles local	phenotype
families	cohort
Family background	phenotype
family conflict	phenotype
Family History Epidemiologic interview local	cohort
family process local	phenotype
family processes	phenotype
Family socioeconomic status	phenotype
family stress local	phenotype
father caregiving local	phenotype
fathers	cohort
financial instability local	phenotype
General externalizing behavior local	phenotype
genetics	phenotype
harsh discipline	phenotype
heterotypic continuity local	phenotype
High individual stress local	phenotype
Hollingshead index of SES local	phenotype
illegal behavior local	phenotype
Illegal behavior local	phenotype
illegal behavior outcomes local	phenotype
illicit drug use	phenotype
individual divorced spouse local	phenotype
individual stress local	phenotype
Individual stress local	phenotype
injecting illegal drugs local	phenotype
Injecting illegal drugs local	phenotype
intelligence	phenotype
internalizing disorders	phenotype
interparental conflict	phenotype
job loss	phenotype
language ability	phenotype
language expression local	phenotype
language mechanics local	phenotype
later adolescence local	cohort
Later adolescence local	phenotype
Later Adolescence (15-18 years) local	cohort
Later externalizing problems local	phenotype
Later internalizing problems local	phenotype
legal problems	phenotype
Length of unemployment local	phenotype
limbic system	anatomy
low caregiving local	phenotype
low caregiving father local	phenotype
Lower language ability local	phenotype
lower peer social preference local	phenotype
Lower peer social preference local	phenotype
low father caregiving local	phenotype
Low father caregiving local	phenotype
medical complications local	phenotype
Medical complications local	phenotype
Middle Childhood (6-10 years) local	cohort
Moffitt’s subgroups local	phenotype
mood disorders	phenotype
mother rating of parental involvement local	phenotype
mothers	cohort
Name-calling local	phenotype
Netherlands	cohort
New Zealand	cohort
non-family child care local	phenotype
Non-parental childcare 1–4 years local	phenotype
Non-parental childcare 4–5 years local	phenotype
Non-parental childcare birth to 1 year local	phenotype
Parental adjustment local	phenotype
parental divorce/separation	phenotype
parental involvement	phenotype
parental involvement in earlier adolescence local	phenotype
parental involvement in later adolescence local	phenotype
parental monitoring	phenotype
parental monitoring in later adolescence local	phenotype
parental values toward aggression local	phenotype
parenting	phenotype
parents	cohort
Parents’ divorce local	phenotype
parents divorced local	phenotype
Parents’ harsh discipline local	phenotype
Parents’ spanking local	phenotype
participants	cohort
peer deviance	phenotype
Peer influences	phenotype
peer process local	phenotype
peer processes local	phenotype
peers	phenotype
physical abuse	phenotype
physical harm local	phenotype
Physical harm local	phenotype
POM scores local	phenotype
poorer language ability local	phenotype
positive parenting	phenotype
poverty	phenotype
prefrontal cortex	anatomy
pregnancy	phenotype
pregnancy complications	phenotype
protective factors local	phenotype
psychopathology	phenotype
race/ethnicity	phenotype
ratio of children to adults in the home local	phenotype
Resistance to control local	phenotype
resistant to control temperament local	phenotype
reward sensitivity	phenotype
risk factor	phenotype
Risk profiles local	phenotype
self-reports local	cohort
SES	phenotype
sex	phenotype
single mother local	phenotype
Sleep disturbance	phenotype
social information processing	phenotype
social preference	phenotype
socioeconomic status	phenotype
spanking local	phenotype
Spanking local	phenotype
stress	phenotype
stressful life events	phenotype
study cohort	cohort
subdimensions of externalizing problems local	phenotype
talk time local	phenotype
Target adult local	cohort
Target child local	cohort
teachers	cohort
Teasing others local	phenotype
teenage mother local	phenotype
Teenage pregnancy	phenotype
teenage pregnancy in early childhood local	phenotype
Television watching at age 5 local	phenotype
temperament	phenotype
Temperamental resistance to control local	phenotype
unadaptable temperament local	phenotype
Unadaptable temperament local	phenotype
unplanned pregnancy	phenotype
US children cohort local	cohort
violence during early childhood local	phenotype
Weekday television watching local	phenotype
Weekend television watching local	phenotype
youth rating of parental involvement local	phenotype

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Intergenerational continuity in parents' and adolescents' externalizing problems: The role of life events and their interaction with GABRA2.	2015	26075969

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