@article{ref1,
title="Co-developmental trajectories of aggression and rule-breaking from middle childhood to early adolescence: individual and environmental predictors",
journal="European child and adolescent psychiatry",
year="2023",
author="Cheng, Jianing and Scott Huebner, E. and Tian, Lili",
volume="ePub",
number="ePub",
pages="ePub-ePub",
abstract="This study examined the heterogeneous co-developmental trajectories of aggression and rule-breaking from middle childhood to early adolescence, as well as how these identified, distinct trajectories related to individual and environmental predictors. A total of 1944 Chinese elementary school students in grade 4 (45.5% girls, Mage = 10.06, SD = 0.57) completed measures on five occasions across two and a half years, using six-month intervals. <br><br>FINDINGS included: (a) Parallel process latent class growth modeling revealed four distinct co-developmental trajectory groups of aggression and rule-breaking: congruent-low (84.0%); moderate-decreasing aggression and high-decreasing rule-breaking (3.8%); moderate-increasing aggression (5.9%); and moderate-increasing rule-breaking (6.3%); (b) Multivariate logistic regression analyses revealed that children belonging to the high risk groups were more likely to experience multiple individual and environmental difficulties. Implications for prevention of aggression and rule-breaking were discussed.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1018-8827",
doi="10.1007/s00787-023-02171-2",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00787-023-02171-2"
}