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Protective factors related to antisocial behavior trajectories
Author(s) -
Morrison Gale M.,
Robertson Laurel,
Laurie Beth,
Kelly Jennifer
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
journal of clinical psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.124
H-Index - 119
eISSN - 1097-4679
pISSN - 0021-9762
DOI - 10.1002/jclp.10022
Subject(s) - psychology , perception , developmental psychology , variance (accounting) , social psychology , accounting , business , neuroscience
A group of 115 fifth‐ and sixth‐grade Latino students were surveyed at the beginning and the end of the school year before their transition to middle or junior‐high school about their engagement in antisocial behaviors and about individual, social, and behavioral protective factors. The best predictors of decreases in antisocial behavior for these students, above and beyond variance for initial ratings and gender, were student perceptions of social support, parent supervision, and classroom participation. The importance of keeping students engaged in school academic work as a protection against antisocial behavior is emphasized as well as the need to help students gain skills necessary to access support for this academic work. © 2002 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Clin Psychol 58: 277–290, 2002.