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ERIC Number: EJ734304
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2005-Nov
Pages: 13
Abstractor: Author
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: ISSN-0022-0663
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Kindergarten Disruptive Behaviors, Protective Factors, and Educational Achievement by Early Adulthood
Vitaro, Frank; Brendgen, Mara; Larose, Simon; Trembaly, Richard E.
Journal of Educational Psychology, v97 n4 p617-629 Nov 2005
This study examined whether 2 aspects of disruptive behaviors (i.e., hyperactivity-inattention and aggressiveness-opposition) observed in kindergarten predict noncompletion of high school by early adulthood. Also investigated was whether other personal characteristics such as anxiety or prosociality as well as parent child-rearing attitudes and teacher management style exert a compensatory or protective role with respect to these predictive links. A community sample of 4,330 children participated in this study. Results showed that hyperactivity-inattention made a stronger contribution to predicting noncompletion of high school than did aggressiveness-opposition. However, prosociality and 2 parental child-rearing aspects (i.e., pleasure and discipline) played a compensatory role in this process. Theoretical and preventive implications of these results are stressed in the discussion.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Kindergarten
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Language: English
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