@article{ref1,
title="Early Adolescent Risk Behavior Outcomes of Childhood Externalizing Behavioral Trajectories",
journal="Journal of early adolescence",
year="2011",
author="Thompson, Richard and Jiyoung Kim Tabone,  and Litrownik, Alan J. and Briggs, Ernestine C. and Hussey, Jon M. and English, Diana J. and Dubowitz, Howard",
volume="31",
number="2",
pages="234-257",
abstract="Little is known about the early childhood indicators of adolescent risk. The link between trajectories of externalizing behavioral problems and early adolescent risk behavior was examined in a longitudinal sample of 875 child participants in the LONGSCAN studies. Five trajectory groups of children defined by externalizing behavior problems were identified: Low, Low-Medium, Moderate, Increasing-High, and High. After controlling for demographics and maltreatment, violent/delinquent behavior was significantly predicted by membership in the Moderate and Increasing-High problem behavior groups. Substance use in early adolescence was significantly predicted by membership in the High behavior problem group. These findings suggest that there is a great deal of continuity between patterns of externalizing behavior in childhood and risk-taking in early adolescence. Understanding the course of externalizing behavior in childhood can help identify children at particular risk for more serious behavioral problems in early adolescence.<p />",
language="",
issn="0272-4316",
doi="10.1177/0272431609361203",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0272431609361203"
}