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)
