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Child, Family, and Community Protective Factors in the Development of Children's Early Conduct Problems
Author(s) -
VanderbiltAdriance Ella,
Shaw Daniel S.,
Brennan Lauretta M.,
Dishion Thomas J.,
Gardner Frances,
Wilson Melvin N.
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
family relations
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.772
H-Index - 87
eISSN - 1741-3729
pISSN - 0197-6664
DOI - 10.1111/fare.12105
Subject(s) - aggression , developmental psychology , psychology , intervention (counseling) , psychological resilience , conduct disorder , multivariate analysis , protective factor , clinical psychology , demography , medicine , social psychology , psychiatry , sociology
This study utilized a resilience model to investigate child, family, and community protective factors in toddlerhood as they relate to low levels of conduct problems at age 5 in a sample of low‐income children at risk for early disruptive problem behavior. Child, family, and community factors were associated with lower levels of conduct problems at age 5. Child, family, and community protective factors also distinguished between children who remained below versus above a clinical threshold for aggressive problems between age 2 and 5. Finally, each domain of protective factors made small but significant unique contributions to lower aggression at age 5. These results emphasize the importance of multivariate analysis of the ecology of development predicting child outcome and suggest potential areas for intervention with children at high risk for conduct problems.