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Joint Trajectories of Peer Cyber and Traditional Victimization in Adolescence: A Look at Risk Factors
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Viau, Sarah-Jeanne; Denault, Anne-Sophie; Dionne, Ginette; Brendgen, Mara; Geoffroy, Marie-Claude; Côté, Sylvana; Larose, Simon; Vitaro, Frank; Tremblay, Richard E.; Boivin, Michel – Journal of Early Adolescence, 2020
This study aimed to identify joint trajectories of peer cyber and traditional victimization from ages 13 to 17 and individual, family, peer, and school risk factors associated with group membership. The sample was composed of 1,194 adolescents (54.2% girls). Cyber and traditional victimization were assessed at ages 13, 15, and 17. The results…
Descriptors: Victims, Peer Relationship, Adolescents, At Risk Persons
Early Nonparental Care and Social Behavior in Elementary School: Support for a Social Group Adaptation Hypothesis
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Pingault, Jean-Baptiste; Tremblay, Richard E.; Vitaro, Frank; Japel, Christa; Boivin, Michel; Côté, Sylvana M. – Child Development, 2015
This study examined the contribution of nonparental child-care services received during the preschool years to the development of social behavior between kindergarten and the end of elementary school with a birth cohort from Québec, Canada (N = 1,544). Mothers reported on the use of child-care services, while elementary school teachers rated…
Descriptors: Child Care, Preschool Children, Kindergarten, Elementary School Students
Links between Friendship Relations and Early Adolescents' Trajectories of Depressed Mood
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Brendgen, Mara; Lamarche, Veronique; Wanner, Brigitte; Vitaro, Frank – Developmental Psychology, 2010
The present study examined to what extent different types of friendship experiences (i.e., friendlessness, having depressed friends, and having nondepressed friends) are associated with early adolescents' longitudinal trajectories of depressed mood. On the basis of a sample of 201 youths (108 girls, 93 boys), we identified 3 distinct longitudinal…
Descriptors: Early Adolescents, Friendship, Adolescents, Depression (Psychology)
Affiliation to Youth Gangs during Adolescence: The Interaction between Childhood Psychopathic Tendencies and Neighborhood Disadvantage
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Dupere, Veronique; Lacourse, Eric; Willms, J. Douglas; Vitaro, Frank; Tremblay, Richard E. – Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 2007
Because youth gangs tend to cluster in disadvantaged neighborhoods, adolescents living in such neighborhoods are more likely to encounter opportunities to join youth gangs. However, in the face of these opportunities, not all adolescents respond in the same manner. Those with preexisting psychopathic tendencies might be especially likely to join.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Probability, Adolescents, Neighborhoods
Verbal and Physical Abuse toward Mothers: The Role of Family Configuration, Environment, and Coping Strategies.
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Pagani, Linda; Larocque, Denis; Vitaro, Frank; Tremblay, Richard E. – Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 2003
Studied factors that can increase the risk of abusive behaviors toward mothers. Findings for 6,397 French-speaking Canadian adolescents show that parental divorce is associated with a greater risk of physical aggression directed toward mothers, but family environment and parental coping strategies partially mediated that relationship. (SLD)
Descriptors: Aggression, Coping, Family Environment, Family Structure
Risk Factor Models for Adolescent Verbal and Physical Aggression toward Mothers
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Pagani, Linda S.; Tremblay, Richard E.; Nagin, Daniel; Zoccolillo, Mark; Vitaro, Frank; McDuff, Pierre – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2004
Contributing to the family violence and conflict literature, we examine prospective and concurrent risk factors associated with verbal and physical aggression toward mothers by 15/16 year-old adolescent sons and daughters. Data from the Quebec Longitudinal Study of Kindergarten Children is used to examine the influence of socioeconomic factors,…
Descriptors: Family Violence, Aggression, Mothers, At Risk Persons