This article addresses 5 misconceptions and controversies concerning the development of
aggression and violence:(a) the misconception that high stability coefficients of aggression …

Accessible summary• Aggressive behavior is the observable manifestation of aggression
and is associated with transitions across different developmental periods as well as a variety …

More than two decades after EE Werner and RS Smith (1982), N. Garmezy (1983), and M.
Rutter (1987) published their research on protective mechanisms and processes that are …

Objectives. Physical aggression in children is a major public health problem. Not only is
childhood physical aggression a precursor of the physical and mental health problems that …

A semi‐parametric mixture model was used with a sample of 1,037 boys assessed
repeatedly from 6 to 15 years of age to approximate a continuous distribution of …

Research on human aggression has been a flourishing industry in the 20th century. As the
attention shifted from an instinctual paradigm to a drive paradigm and a social learning …

A positive school climate is an important component of successful and effective schools and
thus is often an aim of schoolwide initiatives. Climate has traditionally been conceptualized …

Using cross-domain latent growth modeling, we examined trajectories of externalizing and
internalizing problems in disadvantaged boys followed from ages 2 to 6 years (N= 303). On …

The objectives of the study were to model the developmental trajectories of physical
aggression (PA) from toddlerhood to pre-adolescence and to identify risk factors that …

The present study applied a semiparametric mixture model to a sample of 284 low-income
boys to model developmental trajectories of overt conduct problems from ages 2 to 8. As in …