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On The Development Of Self-Control And Deviance From Preschool To Middle Adolescence, Alexander T. Vazsonyi, Gabriela Ksinan Jiskrova
On The Development Of Self-Control And Deviance From Preschool To Middle Adolescence, Alexander T. Vazsonyi, Gabriela Ksinan Jiskrova
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Purpose
The study tested whether developmental changes in self-control stabilize by late childhood (age 10) or continue into early and middle adolescence. Second, it tested the bidirectional, longitudinal relationship between self-control and deviance over an 11-year period.
Methods
Children (N = 1159) from the longitudinal NICHD Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development (SECCYD) were assessed six times, ages 4.5 to 15 years. Latent growth models tested self-control and deviance trajectories, using competing growth functions to capture change over time. The longitudinal, bidirectional self-control-deviance links were examined in a cross-lagged latent model.
Results
Findings showed that children's self-control …