Underlying Common Factors Of Adolescent Problem Behaviors  

Oleh:

Zhang, Lening ; Welte, John W. ; Wieczorek, William F.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Criminal Justice and Behavior vol. 29 no. 2 (Apr. 2003), page 161-182.
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The Buffalo Longitudinal Study of Young Men was used to address the possibility of a common factor underlying adolescent problem behaviors. First, a measurement model with a single firstorder factor was compared to a model with three separate correlated first-order factors. The three-factor modelwas better supported, making it logical to conduct a second-order factor analysis, which confirmed the logic. Second, a substantive modelwas estimated in each of twowaves with psychopathic state as the common factor predicting drinking, drug use, and delinquency. Psychopathic state was stable across waves. The theory that a single latent variable accounts for large covariance among adolescent problem behaviors was supported

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