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EJ423461 PS518070

 

Title: Preadolescent Peer Status, Aggression, and School Adjustment as Predictors of Externalizing Problems in Adolescence.
Author(s): Kupersmidt, Janis B.; Coie, John D.
Source: Child Development, v61 n5 p1350-62 Oct 1990
Publication Date: 1990
ISSN: 0009-3920
Language: English
Document Type: Journal articles (080); Reports--Research (143)
Journal Announcement: CIJJUL1991

Considered (1) the relation between peer socioeconomic status and specific negative outcomes; (2) the possibility that sociometric status serves as a marker variable for negative outcomes; (3) the possibility that rejected children experience more types of problems during adolescence than other children; and (4) which of six predictor variables best predicts delinquency, early school withdrawal, and adjustment problems. (RH)

Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment); Adolescents; *Aggression; *Delinquency; Dropouts; *Peer Acceptance; *Preadolescents; *Predictor Variables; Racial Differences; Rejection
(Psychology); Student Adjustment; *Withdrawal (Education)