This study used data from 6 sites and 3 countries to examine the developmental course of
physical aggression in childhood and to analyze its linkage to violent and nonviolent offending …

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 developmental …

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 …

Microdialysis experiments in rodents indicate that ethanol promotes dopamine release
predominantly in the nucleus accumbens, a phenomenon that is implicated in the reinforcing …

Methods: Data from a large longitudinal study of boys who were between kindergarten and
age 13 years were used to (1) test whether Gray's and Cloninger's personality dimensions …

This article presents a group-based method to jointly estimate developmental trajectories of
2 distinct but theoretically related measurement series. The method will aid the analysis of …

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 will …

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 distinguish …

Policy discussions to ameliorate socioeconomic (SES) inequalities are increasingly focused
on investments in early childhood. Yet such interventions are costly to implement, and clear …

This paper reviews publications on developmental trajectories of disruptive behaviour (DB)
problems (aggression, opposition‐defiance, rule breaking, and stealing‐vandalism) over the …