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Reactively and proactively aggressive children: antecedent and subsequent characteristicsFrank Vitaro
Research Unit on Children s Psycho Social Maladjustment, University of Montreal, Quebec, Canada
J Child Psychol Psychiatry 43:495-505. 2002..Reactive and proactive subtypes of aggressive 10-11-12-year-old children were compared with non-aggressive children to examine whether the two forms of aggression were differentially related to antecedent and subsequent measures...- Examining genetic and environmental effects on reactive versus proactive aggressionMara Brendgen
Department of Psychology, Universite du Quebec a Montreal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Dev Psychol 42:1299-312. 2006..These specific effects indicate that both reactive and proactive aggression may be influenced mostly by socialization experiences that are specific to each type of aggression and only to a very small degree by specific genes... - Children's disruptiveness, peer rejection, friends' deviancy, and delinquent behaviors: a process-oriented approachFrank Vitaro
University of Montreal, Montpetit, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Dev Psychopathol 19:433-53. 2007..The discussion stresses the differential role of peer rejection and affiliation with deviant friends in regard to the two outcomes considered in this study and in regard to the time frame when they were measured... - Gene-environment processes linking aggression, peer victimization, and the teacher-child relationshipMara Brendgen
Department of Psychology, University of Quebec at Montreal, Montreal, QC, Canada
Child Dev 82:2021-36. 2011.... - Links between friendship relations and early adolescents' trajectories of depressed moodMara Brendgen
Department of Psychology, University of Quebec at Montreal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Dev Psychol 46:491-501. 2010..The theoretical and practical implications of these findings are discussed... - Gene-environment interplay between peer rejection and depressive behavior in childrenMara Brendgen
Department of Psychology, University of Quebec at Montreal, Quebec, Canada
J Child Psychol Psychiatry 50:1009-17. 2009.... - Gene-environment interaction between peer victimization and child aggressionMara Brendgen
Department of Psychology, University of Quebec at Montreal, CP 8888, Succ Centreville, Montreal, Quebec H3C 3P8, Canada
Dev Psychopathol 20:455-71. 2008..Different socialization experiences in girls' compared to boys' peer groups may explain the different pattern of results for girls and boys... - Peer rejection and physical health problems in early adolescenceMara Brendgen
Department of Psychology, University of Quebec at Montreal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
J Dev Behav Pediatr 29:183-90. 2008.... - Linkages between children's and their friends' social and physical aggression: evidence for a gene-environment interaction?Mara Brendgen
Department of Psychology, University of Quebec at Montreal, CP 8888, Succ Centre Ville, Montreal, Quebec, Canada H3C 3P8
Child Dev 79:13-29. 2008..Instead, friends' social aggression was directly related to children's social aggression, in addition to genetic effects on this behavior. Theoretical and practical implications of these results are discussed... - Peer and teacher effects on the early onset of sexual intercourseMara Brendgen
Department of Psychology, University of Quebec, Montreal, Quebec
Am J Public Health 97:2070-5. 2007..We examined the links between peer rejection and verbal abuse by a teacher during childhood with the early onset of sexual intercourse and the mediating role of delinquent behavior and low self-esteem in this context... - Verbal abuse by the teacher and child adjustment from kindergarten through grade 6Mara Brendgen
Department of Psychology, University of Quebec, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Pediatrics 117:1585-98. 2006..The present study examined (1) the course and stability of verbal abuse by the teacher from kindergarten through grade 4 and (2) the link between verbal abuse by the teacher and children's behavioral, emotional, and academic adjustment... - Relations with parents and with peers, temperament, and trajectories of depressed mood during early adolescenceMara Brendgen
Department of Psychology, Universite du Quebec a Montreal, Canada
J Abnorm Child Psychol 33:579-94. 2005..A problematic relationship with parents increased the odds of an elevated trajectory of depressed mood regardless of individual temperament. The theoretical and practical implications of these findings are discussed... - Examining genetic and environmental effects on social aggression: a study of 6-year-old twinsMara Brendgen
Department of Psychology, Universite du Quebec a Montreal, Canada
Child Dev 76:930-46. 2005..The correlation between the two phenotypes can also be explained by a directional effect from physical to social aggression... - Is there a dark side of positive illusions? Overestimation of social competence and subsequent adjustment in aggressive and nonaggressive childrenMara Brendgen
Department of Psychology, Universite du Quebec a Montreal, Montreal H3C 3P8, Canada
J Abnorm Child Psychol 32:305-20. 2004..This latter result, however, was only true for children who were highly aggressive to begin with. The theoretical and practical implications of these results are discussed... - Do friends' characteristics moderate the prospective links between peer victimization and reactive and proactive aggression?Véronique Lamarche
Department of Psychology, Universite du Quebec a Montreal, CP 8888, Succ Centre Ville, Montreal, QC, Canada, H3C 3P8
J Abnorm Child Psychol 35:665-80. 2007..The findings are discussed in terms of their theoretical and practical implications for victimized children's risk of displaying reactive and proactive aggressive behaviors... - A monozygotic twin difference study of friends' aggression and children's adjustment problemsFrank Vitaro
University of Montreal, Montreal, QC, Canada
Child Dev 82:617-32. 2011..Differences in perceived victimization by the friend also predicted an increase in MZ twins' differences in depressive symptoms. These results support the importance of friendship experiences during early childhood... - Do early difficult temperament and harsh parenting differentially predict reactive and proactive aggression?Frank Vitaro
University of Montreal, 3050 Edouard Montpetit, Montreal, Quebec, Canada H3T 1J7
J Abnorm Child Psychol 34:685-95. 2006..The results relative to harsh parenting are more mixed but nonetheless in line with developmental models stressing different pathways to reactive and proactive aggression... - Offspring of parents with gambling problems: adjustment problems and explanatory mechanismsFrank Vitaro
Research Unit on Children s Psychosocial Maladjustment, University of Montreal, 3050 Edouard Montpetit, Montreal, QC, Canada, H3T 1J7
J Gambl Stud 24:535-53. 2008..These results add to a very small data base showing that children of problem gamblers are at risk for a variety of adjustment problems... - Assessing aggressive and depressed children's social relations with classmates and friends: a matter of perspectiveMara Brendgen
Department of Psychology, Universite du Quebec a Montreal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
J Abnorm Child Psychol 30:609-24. 2002..The implications of these results for the links between children's aggression and depression and their interpersonal relationships are discussed... - Associations of mother's and father's parenting practices with children's observed social reticence in a competitive situation: a monozygotic twin difference studyFanny Alexandra Guimond
Department of Psychology, University of Quebec at Montreal, C P 8888 succursale Centre ville, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, H3C 3P8
J Abnorm Child Psychol 40:391-402. 2012..The results from the present study suggest that targeting maladaptive maternal as well as paternal child-rearing practices and psychopathology early on may be useful for reducing later internalizing behavior in the offspring... - Interactive links between theory of mind, peer victimization, and reactive and proactive aggressionAnnie Renouf
Department of Psychology, University of Quebec at Montreal, CP 8888, Succ Centre Ville, Montreal, QC, Canada
J Abnorm Child Psychol 38:1109-23. 2010..These findings challenge the social skills deficit view of aggression and provide support for a multidimensional perspective of aggressive behavior... - Longitudinal links between impulsivity, gambling problems and depressive symptoms: a transactional model from adolescence to early adulthoodFrédéric Dussault
University of Quebec at Montreal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
J Child Psychol Psychiatry 52:130-8. 2011.... - The development of hyperactive-impulsive behaviors during the preschool years: the predictive validity of parental assessmentsNancy Leblanc
GRIP, School of Psychology, Universite Laval, Quebec, QC, Canada G1K 7P4
J Abnorm Child Psychol 36:977-87. 2008..These results support the predictive validity of parental assessment of hyperactive-impulsive behaviors during the preschool years and their use to identify children at risk for further evaluation and possible intervention... - Altered patterns of brain activity during transient sadness in children at familial risk for major depressionMélissa L Lévesque
CHU Sainte Justine Research Centre, Montreal, Canada
J Affect Disord 135:410-3. 2011..We used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to investigate the neural correlates of sadness, the prevailing mood in major depression (MD), in a prospective, well-documented community sample followed since birth... - Transactional analysis of the reciprocal links between peer experiences and academic achievement from middle childhood to early adolescenceMarie Hélène Véronneau
Department of Psychology and Research Unit Children s Psychosocial Maladjustment, Universite de Montreal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Dev Psychol 46:773-90. 2010..These data also suggest that peer rejection in childhood may disrupt future academic achievement. Possible mediating mechanisms, as well as peer selection and influences in the context of social development, are discussed... - Joint trajectories of gambling, alcohol and marijuana use during adolescence: a person- and variable-centered developmental approachBrigitte Wanner
University of Montreal, Research Unit on Children s Psychosocial Maladjustment, 3050 Blvd Edouard Montpetit, Montreal, Quebec, Canada H3T 1J7
Addict Behav 31:566-80. 2006..This cluster may correspond to Moffitt's life-course-persistent group. Findings indicate that early assessment of correlates used in the cluster analysis may be useful for screening and preventive purposes... - Differential contribution of parents and friends to smoking trajectories during adolescenceFrank Vitaro
University of Montreal, 3050 Edouard Montpetit, Montreal, Quebec, Canada H3T IJ7
Addict Behav 29:831-5. 2004..The results are discussed in light of the controversy about the contribution of parents' and friends' smoking behavior to smoking initiation in adolescents... - Trajectories of gambling during adolescenceFrank Vitaro
Research Unit on Children s Psycho Social Maladjustment, University of Montreal, 3050 Edouard Montpetit Blvd, Montreal, Quebec, Canada H3T 1J7
J Gambl Stud 20:47-69. 2004..e., impulsivity), while the Late Onset group appeared to lie in between these groups. Compared to the Low group, both high groups subsequently had elevated scores on later gambling related problems... - A longitudinal confirmatory factor analysis of indirect and physical aggression: evidence of two factors over time?Tracy Vaillancourt
Department of Psychology, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Child Dev 74:1628-38. 2003..Findings did not support the notion that maturation is associated with changes in the ways children aggress but rather suggest that children are consistent in the type of aggression they use over time, whether it be indirect or physical... - Predictive validity and early predictors of peer-victimization trajectories in preschoolEdward D Barker
Department of Psychology, Center for the Prevention of Youth Behavior Problems, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, USA
Arch Gen Psychiatry 65:1185-92. 2008..However, developmental trajectories of peer victimization, from the time children first begin to socially interact, are not currently known nor are early familial or child predictors... - The genetic-environmental etiology of cognitive school readiness and later academic achievement in early childhoodJean Pascal Lemelin
Groupe de recherche sur l inadaptation psychosociale chez l enfant, Ecole de Psychologie, Universite Laval, Quebec G1K 7P4, Canada
Child Dev 78:1855-69. 2007..These results contribute to a better understanding of the early determinants of school readiness... - Kindergarten children's genetic vulnerabilities interact with friends' aggression to promote children's own aggressionPol van Lier
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands
J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry 46:1080-7. 2007..To examine whether kindergarten children's genetic liability to physically aggress moderates the contribution of friends' aggression to their aggressive behaviors... - "Accept me, or else...": disputed overestimation of social competence predicts increases in proactive aggressionBram Orobio de Castro
Department of Developmental Psychology, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands
J Abnorm Child Psychol 35:165-78. 2007..Longitudinally, disputed overestimation also uniquely predicted changes in proactive, not reactive aggression... - Protective and compensatory factors mitigating the influence of deviant friends on delinquent behaviours during early adolescenceDavid M Fergusson
Christchurch School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Department of Psychological Medicine, Christchurch Health and Development Study, P O Box 4345, Christchurch, New Zealand
J Adolesc 30:33-50. 2007..These results are discussed in light of the differential roles of moderating and of compensatory factors...