Response decision processes and externalizing behavior problems in adolescents.
Abstract
Externalizing behavior problems of 124 adolescents were assessed across Grades 7-11.
In Grade 9, participants were also assessed across social-cognitive domains after
imagining themselves as the object of provocations portrayed in six videotaped vignettes.
Participants responded to vignette-based questions representing multiple processes
of the response decision step of social information processing. Phase 1 of our investigation
supported a two-factor model of the response evaluation process of response decision
(response valuation and outcome expectancy). Phase 2 showed significant relations
between the set of these response decision processes, as well as response selection,
measured in Grade 9 and (a) externalizing behavior in Grade 9 and (b) externalizing
behavior in Grades 10-11, even after controlling externalizing behavior in Grades
7-8. These findings suggest that on-line behavioral judgments about aggression play
a crucial role in the maintenance and growth of aggressive response tendencies in
adolescence.
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Journal articleSubject
AdolescentAdult
Child Behavior Disorders
Decision Making
Female
Follow-Up Studies
Hostility
Humans
Individuation
Internal-External Control
Male
Parent-Child Relations
Peer Group
Personality Assessment
Social Adjustment
Sociometric Techniques
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Kenneth A. Dodge
William McDougall Distinguished Professor of Public Policy Studies
Kenneth A. Dodge is the William McDougall Distinguished Professor of Public Policy
and Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience at Duke University. He is also the founding
and past director of the Center for Child and Family Policy, as well as the founder
of Family Connects International.
Dodge is a leading scholar in the development and prevention of aggressive and violent
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