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Social competence, externalizing, and internalizing behavioral adjustment from early childhood through early adolescence: Developmental cascades

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 October 2010

Marc H. Bornstein ,
Chun-Shin Hahn  and
O. Maurice Haynes
Marc H. Bornstein*
Affiliation:
Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health
Chun-Shin Hahn
Affiliation:
Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health
O. Maurice Haynes
Affiliation:
Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health
*
Address correspondence and reprint requests to: Marc H. Bornstein, Child and Family Research, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, Suite 8030, 6705 Rockledge Drive, Bethesda, MD 20892-7971; E-mail: marc_h_bornstein@nih.gov.
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Abstract

This study used a three-wave longitudinal design to investigate developmental cascades among social competence and externalizing and internalizing behavioral adjustment in a normative sample of 117 children seen at 4, 10, and 14 years. Children, mothers, and teachers provided data. A series of nested path analysis models was used to determine the most parsimonious and plausible cascades across the three constructs over and above their covariation at each age and stability across age. Children with lower social competence at age 4 years exhibited more externalizing and internalizing behaviors at age 10 years and more externalizing behaviors at age 14 years. Children with lower social competence at age 4 years also exhibited more internalizing behaviors at age 10 years and more internalizing behaviors at age 14 years. Children who exhibited more internalizing behaviors at age 4 years exhibited more internalizing behaviors at age 10 years and more externalizing behaviors at age 14 years. These cascades among social competence and behavioral adjustment obtained independent of child intelligence and maternal education and social desirability of responding.

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Development and Psychopathology , Volume 22 , Issue 4: Developmental Cascades: Part 2 , November 2010 , pp. 717 - 735
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