| Title: |
Predicting Family Poverty and Other Disadvantaged Conditions for Child Rearing from Childhood Aggression and Social Withdrawal: A 30-Year Longitudinal Study |
| Language: |
English |
| Authors: |
Serbin, Lisa A.; Temcheff, Caroline E.; Cooperman, Jessica M.; Stack, Dale M.; Ledingham, Jane; Schwartzman, Alex E. |
| Source: |
International Journal of Behavioral Development. Mar 2011 35(2):97-106. |
| Availability: |
SAGE Publications. 2455 Teller Road, Thousand Oaks, CA 91320. Tel: 800-818-7243; Tel: 805-499-9774; Fax: 800-583-2665; e-mail: journals@sagepub.com; Web site: http://sagepub.com |
| Peer Reviewed: |
Y |
| Page Count: |
10 |
| Publication Date: |
2011 |
| Document Type: |
Journal Articles; Reports - Research |
| Descriptors: |
Behavior Patterns; Poverty; Mothers; Structural Equation Models; Early Parenthood; Family Environment; Gender Differences; Fathers; Family Income; Disadvantaged Youth; Aggression; Foreign Countries; Antisocial Behavior; Longitudinal Studies; Low Income Groups; Dropouts; High School Students; Family Structure; Child Rearing; Predictor Variables; Academic Achievement; Age Differences; Parent Participation |
| Geographic Terms: |
Canada |
| DOI: |
10.1177/0165025410372008 |
| ISSN: |
0165-0254 |
| Abstract: |
This 30-year longitudinal study examined pathways from problematic childhood behavior patterns to future disadvantaged conditions for family environment and child rearing in adulthood. Participants were mothers (n = 328) and fathers (n = 222) with lower income backgrounds participating in the ongoing Concordia Longitudinal Risk Project. Structural Equation Modeling was used to examine pathways from childhood aggression and social withdrawal to future high school drop-out, early parenthood, parental absence, and family poverty after the participants became parents. Childhood aggression directly predicted early parenthood and parental absence in both mothers' and fathers' models, and high school drop-out for the fathers (for the mothers, this path was indirect via achievement in primary school). Childhood aggression predicted family poverty indirectly, with some gender differences in significant pathways. (Contains 3 figures, 1 table, and 1 note.) |
| Abstractor: |
As Provided |
| Number of References: |
48 |
| Entry Date: |
2011 |
| Accession Number: |
EJ918056 |
| Database: |
ERIC |