Rolf Loeber

Summary

Affiliation: University of Pittsburgh
Country: USA

Publications

  1. ncbi Findings from the pittsburgh youth study: cognitive impulsivity and intelligence as predictors of the age-crime curve
    Rolf Loeber
    Drs Loeber, Stouthamer Loeber, and Pardini, and Ms Stallings are with the University of Pittsburgh Ms Menting is with Vrije University, Amsterdam Dr Lynam is with Purdue University Dr Moffitt is with Duke University Dr Farrington is with the University of Cambridge Electronic address
    J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry 51:1136-49. 2012
  2. ncbi Are there stable factors in preadolescent girls' externalizing behaviors?
    Rolf Loeber
    Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh, 3811 O Hara St, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
    J Abnorm Child Psychol 37:777-91. 2009
  3. ncbi Do cognitive, physiological, and psychosocial risk and promotive factors predict desistance from delinquency in males?
    Rolf Loeber
    Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, 15213, USA
    Dev Psychopathol 19:867-87. 2007
  4. ncbi Neurobiology and the development of violence: common assumptions and controversies
    Rolf Loeber
    University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Western Psychiatric Hospital and Clinic, University of Pittsburgh, 3811 O Hara Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
    Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 363:2491-503. 2008
  5. ncbi Development and etiology of disruptive and delinquent behavior
    Rolf Loeber
    Department of Psychiatry, Medical School, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
    Annu Rev Clin Psychol 5:291-310. 2009
  6. ncbi Perspectives on oppositional defiant disorder, conduct disorder, and psychopathic features
    Rolf Loeber
    School of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA USA
    J Child Psychol Psychiatry 50:133-42. 2009
  7. ncbi Intergenerational transmission of multiple problem behaviors: prospective relationships between mothers and daughters
    Rolf Loeber
    WPIC, 3811 O Hara St, Pittsburgh, PA 15206, USA
    J Abnorm Child Psychol 37:1035-48. 2009
  8. ncbi Callous-unemotional behaviors in young girls: shared and unique effects relative to conduct problems
    Alison E Hipwell
    Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
    J Clin Child Adolesc Psychol 36:293-304. 2007
  9. ncbi The clinical utility of the proposed DSM-5 callous-unemotional subtype of conduct disorder in young girls
    Dustin Pardini
    University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
    J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry 51:62-73.e4. 2012
  10. ncbi Reciprocal influences between girls' conduct problems and depression, and parental punishment and warmth: a six year prospective analysis
    Alison Hipwell
    Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
    J Abnorm Child Psychol 36:663-77. 2008

Research Grants

  1. Conduct Disorder & Depression in Girls: Precursors, Development and Comorbidity
    Rolf Loeber; Fiscal Year: 2010
  2. Mental Health Effects on Young Men's Violence
    Rolf Loeber; Fiscal Year: 2005
  3. PRECURSORS TO ANTISOCIAL PERSONALITY AND VIOLENCE
    Rolf Loeber; Fiscal Year: 2004
  4. DEVELOPMENT OF SUBSTANCE USE IN GIRLS
    Rolf Loeber; Fiscal Year: 2004
  5. DEVELOPMENT OF CONDUCT DISORDER IN GIRLS
    Rolf Loeber; Fiscal Year: 2002
  6. Conduct Disorder & Depression in Girls: Precursors, Development and Comorbidity
    Rolf Loeber; Fiscal Year: 2010
  7. DEVELOPMENT OF SUBSTANCE USE IN GIRLS
    Rolf Loeber; Fiscal Year: 2010
  8. Conduct Disorder & Depression in Girls: Precursors, Development and Comorbidity
    Rolf Loeber; Fiscal Year: 2009
  9. Conduct Disorder & Depression in Girls: Precursors, Development and Comorbidity
    Rolf Loeber; Fiscal Year: 2009
  10. DEVELOPMENT OF SUBSTANCE USE IN GIRLS
    Rolf Loeber; Fiscal Year: 2009

Detail Information

Publications74

  1. ncbi Findings from the pittsburgh youth study: cognitive impulsivity and intelligence as predictors of the age-crime curve
    Rolf Loeber
    Drs Loeber, Stouthamer Loeber, and Pardini, and Ms Stallings are with the University of Pittsburgh Ms Menting is with Vrije University, Amsterdam Dr Lynam is with Purdue University Dr Moffitt is with Duke University Dr Farrington is with the University of Cambridge Electronic address
    J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry 51:1136-49. 2012
    ....
  2. ncbi Are there stable factors in preadolescent girls' externalizing behaviors?
    Rolf Loeber
    Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh, 3811 O Hara St, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
    J Abnorm Child Psychol 37:777-91. 2009
    ..56 to 0.83). These findings are discussed in terms of possible adjustment to the criteria for children's disruptive behavior disorders found in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual for Mental Disorders...
  3. ncbi Do cognitive, physiological, and psychosocial risk and promotive factors predict desistance from delinquency in males?
    Rolf Loeber
    Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, 15213, USA
    Dev Psychopathol 19:867-87. 2007
    ..Desisters scored low on depression and weekly heavy drinking and in these respects were indistinguishable from nondelinquents and better off than persisters...
  4. ncbi Neurobiology and the development of violence: common assumptions and controversies
    Rolf Loeber
    University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Western Psychiatric Hospital and Clinic, University of Pittsburgh, 3811 O Hara Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
    Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 363:2491-503. 2008
    ..Longitudinal analyses from the Pittsburgh Youth Study are used to illustrate several of these issues...
  5. ncbi Development and etiology of disruptive and delinquent behavior
    Rolf Loeber
    Department of Psychiatry, Medical School, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
    Annu Rev Clin Psychol 5:291-310. 2009
    ..Finally, we explore the question of whether there are developmental shifts in children's exposure to risk and promotive factors...
  6. ncbi Perspectives on oppositional defiant disorder, conduct disorder, and psychopathic features
    Rolf Loeber
    School of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA USA
    J Child Psychol Psychiatry 50:133-42. 2009
    ..The paper also examines effective interventions for each of the three conditions and makes recommendations for future research...
  7. ncbi Intergenerational transmission of multiple problem behaviors: prospective relationships between mothers and daughters
    Rolf Loeber
    WPIC, 3811 O Hara St, Pittsburgh, PA 15206, USA
    J Abnorm Child Psychol 37:1035-48. 2009
    ....
  8. ncbi Callous-unemotional behaviors in young girls: shared and unique effects relative to conduct problems
    Alison E Hipwell
    Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
    J Clin Child Adolesc Psychol 36:293-304. 2007
    ..The results also indicated that conduct problems were more closely associated with harsh punishment and low parental warmth among girls with low versus high CU behaviors...
  9. ncbi The clinical utility of the proposed DSM-5 callous-unemotional subtype of conduct disorder in young girls
    Dustin Pardini
    University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
    J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry 51:62-73.e4. 2012
    ..Second, the developmental outcomes of girls with CU traits in the absence of CD was examined because these girls would be overlooked by the proposed CU subtyping scheme...
  10. ncbi Reciprocal influences between girls' conduct problems and depression, and parental punishment and warmth: a six year prospective analysis
    Alison Hipwell
    Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
    J Abnorm Child Psychol 36:663-77. 2008
    ..The small effect of girls' depressed mood, on changes in parental warmth, was further weakened when socio-demographic factors were also included in the model...
  11. ncbi Reciprocal relationships between parenting behavior and disruptive psychopathology from childhood through adolescence
    Jeffrey D Burke
    Department of Psychiatry, Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, University of Pittsburgh, 3811 O Hara St, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
    J Abnorm Child Psychol 36:679-92. 2008
    ....
  12. ncbi Identifying direct protective factors for nonviolence
    Dustin A Pardini
    University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213, USA
    Am J Prev Med 43:S28-40. 2012
    ..Analyses first examined constructs commonly assessed across all four studies and then included constructs unique to each study...
  13. ncbi Ethnic differences in positive alcohol expectancies during childhood: the Pittsburgh Girls Study
    Tammy Chung
    Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213, USA
    Alcohol Clin Exp Res 32:966-74. 2008
    ..This study used measurement invariance methods to examine ethnic differences in the development of alcohol expectancies, and examined risk factors associated with girls' positive expectancies...
  14. ncbi A question for DSM-V: which better predicts persistent conduct disorder--delinquent acts or conduct symptoms?
    Jeffrey D Burke
    Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
    Crim Behav Ment Health 12:37-52. 2002
    ..This study sought to examine which factors in childhood predict a repeated diagnosis of CD in adolescence, and whether self-reported delinquent acts enhance the utility of symptoms of CD in predicting later persistent CD...
  15. ncbi Trajectories of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and oppositional defiant disorder symptoms as precursors of borderline personality disorder symptoms in adolescent girls
    Stephanie D Stepp
    Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, 3811 O Hara St, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
    J Abnorm Child Psychol 40:7-20. 2012
    ..This study adds to the literature on the early development of BPD by providing the first longitudinal study to examine ADHD and ODD symptom trajectories as specific childhood precursors of BPD symptoms in adolescent girls...
  16. ncbi Characteristics of girls with early onset disruptive and antisocial behaviour
    Alison E Hipwell
    Department of Psychiatry, Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
    Crim Behav Ment Health 12:99-118. 2002
    ..This is primarily due to a lack of consensus on how to define and assess female antisocial behaviour, and a lack of studies using sufficiently large samples...
  17. ncbi Stability of borderline personality disorder features in girls
    Stephanie D Stepp
    Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, 3811 O Hara St, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
    J Pers Disord 24:460-72. 2010
    ..71-.85) and moderately high for teacher factor scores (r ranging from .49-.77). These findings suggest that underlying dimensions of BPD features can be reliably measured and are stable in 6-12-year-old girls...
  18. ncbi Time-varying associations between conduct problems and alcohol use in adolescent girls: the moderating role of race
    Rolf Loeber
    Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, 3811 O Hara Street, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213, USA
    J Stud Alcohol Drugs 71:544-53. 2010
    ..The aims of this study were to examine the time-varying developmental associations between conduct problems and early alcohol use in girls between ages 11 and 15 and to test the moderating role of race...
  19. ncbi Dimensions of oppositional defiant disorder as predictors of depression and conduct disorder in preadolescent girls
    Jeffrey D Burke
    Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic at the University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
    J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry 49:484-92. 2010
    ....
  20. ncbi Brief report: Parsing the heterogeneity of adolescent girls' sexual behavior: relationships to individual and interpersonal factors
    Alison E Hipwell
    Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, 3811 O Hara Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
    J Adolesc 34:589-92. 2011
    ..Sexually active girls were older, lived with a single parent, and reported more substance use and depression, but similar levels of conduct problems, impulsivity and deviant peers to girls engaging in pre-sexual behavior...
  21. ncbi Inattention as a key predictor of tobacco use in adolescence
    Jeffrey D Burke
    Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
    J Abnorm Psychol 116:249-59. 2007
    ..Peer substance use, parental substance use, and conduct disorder also predicted increases in tobacco use. African American ethnicity was strongly protective against later tobacco use...
  22. ncbi Early predictors of sexually intimate behaviors in an urban sample of young girls
    Alison E Hipwell
    Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, 3811 O Hara Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
    Dev Psychol 46:366-78. 2010
    ..The results suggest that early prevention efforts need to incorporate awareness of different social norms relating to sexual behavior...
  23. ncbi Adolescent conduct disorder and interpersonal callousness as predictors of psychopathy in young adults
    Jeffrey D Burke
    Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
    J Clin Child Adolesc Psychol 36:334-46. 2007
    ..Prenatal tobacco exposure and cortisol measured in adolescence predicted only Factor 1. When each factor was included in the prediction of the other, CD and IC no longer predicted Factor 1 but remained significant predictors of Factor 2...
  24. ncbi A study of disruptive behavior disorders in Puerto Rican youth: II. Baseline prevalence, comorbidity, and correlates in two sites
    Hector R Bird
    Department of Psychiatry, Division of Child Psychiatry, Columbia University New York State Psychiatric Institute, New York 10032, USA
    J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry 45:1042-53. 2006
    ..This is the second of two associated articles. The prevalence, correlates, and comorbidities of disruptive behavior disorders (DBDs) in two populations are reported...
  25. ncbi Phenomenology of depression in young girls
    Kate Keenan
    Department of Psychiatry, University of Chicago, IL 60637, USA
    J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry 43:1098-106. 2004
    ..To examine the prevalence of depressive symptoms, the overlap between caregiver and child report, the association between depression and anxiety, and the relationship between symptoms of depression and impairment in young girls...
  26. ncbi Understanding desisting and persisting forms of delinquency: the unique contributions of disruptive behavior disorders and interpersonal callousness
    Amy L Byrd
    Department of Psychology, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, 207 North Craig Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
    J Child Psychol Psychiatry 53:371-80. 2012
    ..The current study examined whether childhood and adolescent CD, ODD, ADHD, and IC symptoms uniquely distinguished boys who exhibited persisting versus desisting delinquency from adolescence into adulthood...
  27. ncbi Longitudinal development of antisocial behaviors in young and early adolescent Puerto Rican children at two sites
    Hector R Bird
    Department of Psychiatry, Division of Child Psychiatry, Columbia University New York State Psychiatric Institute, New York, NY 10032, USA
    J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry 46:5-14. 2007
    ..This report provides descriptive longitudinal findings over three waves of a study designed to assess the development of antisocial behaviors in young and early adolescent Puerto Rican children at two sites...
  28. ncbi Predictors of contact difficulty and refusal in a longitudinal study
    Robert B Cotter
    Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, University of Pittsburgh, Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
    Crim Behav Ment Health 15:126-37. 2005
    ..Participant loss threatens both the internal and external validity of research findings. This study sought to examine predictors related to contact difficulty and refusals in a longitudinal study...
  29. ncbi Waxing and waning in concert: dynamic comorbidity of conduct disorder with other disruptive and emotional problems over 7 years among clinic-referred boys
    Benjamin B Lahey
    Department of Psychiatry, University of Chicago, Illinois 60637, USA
    J Abnorm Psychol 111:556-67. 2002
    ..These findings indicate a striking degree of dynamic comorbidity between CD and other types of psychopathology and provide an initial empirical framework for needed developmental models of comorbidity...
  30. ncbi Mood and hormone responses to psychological challenge in adolescent males with conduct problems
    Keith McBurnett
    Department of Psychiatry, University of California San Francisco, Langley Porter Psychiatric Institute, California 94146, USA
    Biol Psychiatry 57:1109-16. 2005
    ..Relations between stress hormones and antisocial behavior are understudied...
  31. ncbi Developmental transitions among affective and behavioral disorders in adolescent boys
    Jeffrey D Burke
    Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
    J Child Psychol Psychiatry 46:1200-10. 2005
    ..Furthermore, Oppositional Defiant Disorder (ODD) is rarely considered distinctly from CD, minimizing the ability to identify distinct effects among behavioral disorders...
  32. ncbi Block observations of neighbourhood physical disorder are associated with neighbourhood crime, firearm injuries and deaths, and teen births
    Evelyn Wei
    Department of Psychiatry, Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, 3811 O'Hara Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
    J Epidemiol Community Health 59:904-8. 2005
    ..CONCLUSIONS: This brief measure of neighbourhood physical disorder may help increase our understanding of how community level factors reflect health and crime outcomes...
  33. ncbi Young girls' expectancies about the effects of alcohol, future intentions and patterns of use
    Alison E Hipwell
    Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pennsylvania 15213, USA
    J Stud Alcohol 66:630-9. 2005
    ..The current prospective study examines the prevalence and correlates of alcohol use, future intentions and alcohol-related expectancies among young girls from ages 8 to 10 years...
  34. ncbi What are adolescent antecedents to antisocial personality disorder?
    Rolf Loeber
    Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
    Crim Behav Ment Health 12:24-36. 2002
    ..This paper fills a gap because there are very few studies that prospectively predict antisocial personality disorder (APD) from psychopathology earlier in life in clinic-referred samples of young males...
  35. ncbi Lost opportunities for intervention: undetected markers for the development of serious juvenile delinquency
    Magda Stouthamer-Loeber
    Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
    Crim Behav Ment Health 12:69-82. 2002
    ..for a diagnosis of a disruptive behaviour disorder? (3) What proportion of persistent serious delinquent boys receive help for their behavioural or educational problems, either from mental health professionals or from personnel at school?..
  36. ncbi A parallel process model of the development of positive smoking expectancies and smoking behavior during early adolescence in Caucasian and African American girls
    Tammy Chung
    Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, United States
    Addict Behav 35:647-50. 2010
    ..Study results suggest the potential utility of culturally tailored smoking prevention efforts, and the potential secondary benefit of depression treatment to prevent smoking among at-risk girls...
  37. ncbi Predicting future antisocial personality disorder in males from a clinical assessment in childhood
    Benjamin B Lahey
    Department of Psychiatry, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
    J Consult Clin Psychol 73:389-99. 2005
    ..Among children who met criteria for CD, their number of covert but not overt CD symptoms improved prediction of future APD, controlling for SES...
  38. ncbi Gun carrying and conduct disorder: a highly combustible combination? Implications for juvenile justice and mental and public health
    Rolf Loeber
    Departments of Psychiatry, Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, University of Pittsburgh, 3811 O Hara Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15213 2593, USA
    Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med 158:138-45. 2004
    ....
  39. ncbi How many of the offspring born to teenage fathers are produced by repeated serious delinquents?
    Evelyn H Wei
    Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
    Crim Behav Ment Health 12:83-98. 2002
    ..This paper quantifies the public health impact of serious delinquency on the risk of impregnation and teenage fatherhood among urban, adolescent males...
  40. ncbi Child disobedience and noncompliance: a review
    Larry M Kalb
    University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
    Pediatrics 111:641-52. 2003
    ..Antecedents of noncompliance including parental discipline techniques and child characteristics are reviewed. Parent training programs designed to reduce noncompliance are described, and the effectiveness of such programs is examined...
  41. ncbi The prediction of violence and homicide in young men
    Rolf Loeber
    Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, 15213 PA, USA
    J Consult Clin Psychol 73:1074-88. 2005
    ..48). Implications for the prevention of violence and homicide are discussed...
  42. ncbi Interpersonal callousness, hyperactivity/impulsivity, inattention, and conduct problems as precursors to delinquency persistence in boys: a comparison of three grade-based cohorts
    Dustin Pardini
    Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
    J Clin Child Adolesc Psychol 35:46-59. 2006
    ..IC uniquely predicted delinquency persistence for the oldest cohort. The results suggest that the saliency of specific predictors of delinquent behavior may change from childhood to adolescence...
  43. ncbi Do we know which interventions are effective for disruptive and delinquent girls?
    Alison E Hipwell
    Department of Psychiatry, Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, University of Pittsburgh, 3811 O Hara Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
    Clin Child Fam Psychol Rev 9:221-55. 2006
    ..Methodological issues are discussed and recommendations are made for the development and evaluation of future interventions to prevent and reduce girls' disruptive and delinquent behavior...
  44. ncbi Impact of oppositional defiant disorder dimensions on the temporal ordering of conduct problems and depression across childhood and adolescence in girls
    Alison E Hipwell
    Department of Psychiatry, Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
    J Child Psychol Psychiatry 52:1099-108. 2011
    ..Little is known about the role of oppositional defiant disorder (ODD) dimensions on the temporal unfolding of conduct disorder (CD) and depression in girls between childhood and adolescence...
  45. ncbi Neighborhood socioeconomic disadvantage and the shape of the age-crime curve
    Anthony Fabio
    Department of Epidemiology, Epidemiology Data Center, Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15261, USA
    Am J Public Health 101:S325-32. 2011
    ..We sought to better determine the way in which neighborhood disadvantage affects the shape of the age-crime curve...
  46. ncbi Oppositional defiant disorder and conduct disorder: a review of the past 10 years, part II
    Jeffrey D Burke
    Department of Psychiatry, Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
    J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry 41:1275-93. 2002
    ..To review empirical findings on oppositional defiant disorder (ODD) and conduct disorder (CD)...
  47. ncbi Why some generations are more violent than others: assessment of age, period, and cohort effects
    Anthony Fabio
    Department of Neurosurgery, Center for Injury Research and Control, School of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
    Am J Epidemiol 164:151-60. 2006
    ..23, 95% CI: 0.78, 1.94). The authors conclude that differences in the rates of violence over time may be attributed to changing social factors (period effects) and not to differences between the individuals (cohort effect) of cohorts...
  48. ncbi The relation between adolescent social competence and young adult delinquency and educational attainment among at-risk youth: the mediating role of peer delinquency
    Stephanie D Stepp
    University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
    Can J Psychiatry 56:457-65. 2011
    ....
  49. ncbi Desistance from persistent serious delinquency in the transition to adulthood
    Magda Stouthamer-Loeber
    Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, University of Pittsburgh Medical School, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
    Dev Psychopathol 16:897-918. 2004
    ..The article discusses the implications of promotive and risk factors for preventive interventions...
  50. ncbi Adolescent outcomes of childhood conduct disorder among clinic-referred boys: predictors of improvement
    Benjamin B Lahey
    Department of Psychiatry, University of Chicago, Illinois 60637, USA
    J Abnorm Child Psychol 30:333-48. 2002
    ....
  51. ncbi Interpersonal and affective features of psychopathy in children and adolescents: advancing a developmental perspective. Introduction to special section
    Dustin A Pardini
    Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
    J Clin Child Adolesc Psychol 36:269-75. 2007
    ..Finally, the influence of a parenting intervention on the affective features of psychopathy in boys diagnosed with Oppositional Defiant Disorder is examined...
  52. ncbi Is prenatal smoking associated with a developmental pattern of conduct problems in young boys?
    Lauren S Wakschlag
    Institute for Juvenile Research, Department of Psychiatry, University of Illinois at Chicago, IL 60608, USA
    J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry 45:461-7. 2006
    ....
  53. ncbi Is neighborhood context differently related to externalizing problems and delinquency for girls compared with boys?
    Leoniek Kroneman
    Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213, USA
    Clin Child Fam Psychol Rev 7:109-22. 2004
    ....
  54. ncbi Risk and promotive effects in the explanation of persistent serious delinquency in boys
    Magda Stouthamer-Loeber
    Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, University of Pittsburgh Medical School, Pennsylvania 15213, USA
    J Consult Clin Psychol 70:111-23. 2002
    ..However, predictive relations between risk and promotive effects and persistent serious delinquency were linear and similar across neighborhood socioeconomic status...
  55. ncbi A study of disruptive behavior disorders in Puerto Rican youth: I. Background, design, and survey methods
    Hector R Bird
    Department of Psychiatry, Division of Child Psychiatry, Columbia University New York State Psychiatric Institute, New York 10032, USA
    J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry 45:1032-41. 2006
    ....
  56. ncbi Serious delinquent behavior, sensation seeking, and electrodermal arousal
    Lisa M Gatzke-Kopp
    Department of Psychology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles 90089 1061, USA
    J Abnorm Child Psychol 30:477-86. 2002
    ..This finding is not explained by differences between the groups on measures of negative emotionality, IQ, socioeconomic status, or impulsivity...
  57. ncbi Women with antisocial behaviour: long-term health disability and help-seeking for emotional problems
    Kathleen Pajer
    Columbus Children s Research Institute, Department of Pediatrics, College of Medicine and Public Health, The Ohio State University, USA
    Crim Behav Ment Health 16:29-42. 2006
    ....
  58. ncbi Editorial introduction: three longitudinal studies of children's development in Pittsburgh: the Developmental Trends Study, the Pittsburgh Youth Study, and the Pittsburgh Girls Study
    Rolf Loeber
    Crim Behav Ment Health 12:1-23. 2002
  59. ncbi Reduced electrodermal activity in psychopathy-prone adolescents
    Michelle T Fung
    Department of Psychology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089 1061, USA
    J Abnorm Psychol 114:187-96. 2005
    ....
  60. ncbi Trajectories of delinquency and parenting styles
    Machteld Hoeve
    Netherlands Institute for the Study of Crime and Law Enforcement NWO NSCR, Leiden, The Netherlands
    J Abnorm Child Psychol 36:223-35. 2008
    ....
  61. ncbi Juvenile sex offenders compared to non-sex offenders: a review of the literature 1995-2005
    Anton van Wijk
    Police Academy of the Netherlands
    Trauma Violence Abuse 7:227-43. 2006
    ..Further research should take into account this heterogeneity by including sex offenders from clearly circumscribed groups and investigating characteristics specifically related to sexual behavior...
  62. ncbi Are within-individual causes of delinquency the same as between-individual causes?
    David P Farrington
    Institute of Criminology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge
    Crim Behav Ment Health 12:53-68. 2002
    ..This paper aims to study the causes of delinquency by comparing within-individual and between-individual correlations of risk factors with delinquency...
  63. ncbi Stages and sequences of initiation and regular substance use in a longitudinal cohort of black and white male adolescents
    Helene R White
    Center of Alcohol Studies, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, 607 Allison Road, Piscataway, New Jersey 08854 8001, USA
    J Stud Alcohol Drugs 68:173-81. 2007
    ..This study examined whether developmental sequences and stages of substance-use initiation and regular use differed and, if so, whether they varied for black and white adolescent males...
  64. ncbi Longitudinal evidence that psychopathy scores in early adolescence predict adult psychopathy
    Donald R Lynam
    Department of Psychological Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907 2081, USA
    J Abnorm Psychol 116:155-65. 2007
    ..Implications and future directions are discussed...
  65. ncbi Measuring interpersonal callousness in boys from childhood to adolescence: an examination of longitudinal invariance and temporal stability
    Jelena Obradovic
    Institute of Child Development, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
    J Clin Child Adolesc Psychol 36:276-92. 2007
    ..This study emphasizes the importance of testing the longitudinal invariance of constructs that span multiple developmental periods to promote a more unambiguous understanding of developmental stability and change...
  66. ncbi Untangling developmental relations between depressed mood and delinquency in male adolescents
    Jennifer M Beyers
    Social Development Research Group, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA
    J Abnorm Child Psychol 31:247-66. 2003
    ..Implications of the results for theory and intervention are discussed...
  67. ncbi Reading problems and depressed mood
    Barbara Maughan
    MRC Social, Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Research Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, King s College, London, United Kingdom
    J Abnorm Child Psychol 31:219-29. 2003
    ....
  68. ncbi Violent juvenile sex offenders compared with violent juvenile nonsex offenders: explorative findings from the Pittsburgh Youth Study
    Anton van Wijk
    Police Academy of the Netherlands, Apeldoom, The Netherlands
    Sex Abuse 17:333-52. 2005
    ..The findings show that the sex offenders resembled the nonsex violent offenders with respect to nearly all child, family, peer and demographic risk factors. Some suggestions are made with regard to future research...
  69. ncbi Developmental trajectories of childhood disruptive behaviors and adolescent delinquency: a six-site, cross-national study
    Lisa M Broidy
    Department of Sociology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque 87131, USA
    Dev Psychol 39:222-45. 2003
    ....
  70. ncbi Inhibition deficits of serious delinquent boys of low intelligence
    Roos Koolhof
    Department of Clinical and Developmental Psychology, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
    Crim Behav Ment Health 17:274-92. 2007
    ..They also examine the extent to which low IQ and higher IQ serious delinquents incurred contact with the juvenile court because of their delinquent behaviour...
  71. ncbi Neurocognitive impairments in boys on the life-course persistent antisocial path
    Adrian Raine
    Department of Psychology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089 1061, USA
    J Abnorm Psychol 114:38-49. 2005
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  72. ncbi Introduction to special section on the National Institute of Health State of the Science report on violence prevention
    Farris Tuma
    National Institute of Mental Health, 6001 Executive Blvd, Room 7111/MSC9632, Bethesda, Maryland 20892, USA
    J Abnorm Child Psychol 34:451-6. 2006
  73. ncbi The content validity of juvenile psychopathy: an empirical examination
    Donald R Lynam
    Department of Psychological Sciences, Purdue University, 703 Third Street, West Lafayette, IN 47907, USA
    Psychol Assess 19:363-7. 2007
    ..These results suggest that the downward translation method is adequate for understanding the juvenile psychopathy construct...
  74. ncbi Adolescent psychopathy and the big five: results from two samples
    Donald R Lynam
    Department of Psychology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky 40506 0044, USA
    J Abnorm Child Psychol 33:431-43. 2005
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Research Grants65

  1. Conduct Disorder & Depression in Girls: Precursors, Development and Comorbidity
    Rolf Loeber; Fiscal Year: 2010
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  2. Mental Health Effects on Young Men's Violence
    Rolf Loeber; Fiscal Year: 2005
    ..The study results are likely to be relevant for prevention, intervention and service delivery systems pertaining to young males at risk for violence. ..
  3. PRECURSORS TO ANTISOCIAL PERSONALITY AND VIOLENCE
    Rolf Loeber; Fiscal Year: 2004
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  4. DEVELOPMENT OF SUBSTANCE USE IN GIRLS
    Rolf Loeber; Fiscal Year: 2004
    ..abstract_text> ..
  5. DEVELOPMENT OF CONDUCT DISORDER IN GIRLS
    Rolf Loeber; Fiscal Year: 2002
    ..The proposed study will follow girls annually for a five-year period and will provide information that is critical to the understanding of the etiology, comorbidity, and prognosis of Conduct Disorder in girls. ..
  6. Conduct Disorder & Depression in Girls: Precursors, Development and Comorbidity
    Rolf Loeber; Fiscal Year: 2010
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  7. DEVELOPMENT OF SUBSTANCE USE IN GIRLS
    Rolf Loeber; Fiscal Year: 2010
    ..The Pittsburgh Girl Study is one of the very few studies in the USA that can examine these relationships from childhood through adolescence. ..
  8. Conduct Disorder & Depression in Girls: Precursors, Development and Comorbidity
    Rolf Loeber; Fiscal Year: 2009
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  9. Conduct Disorder & Depression in Girls: Precursors, Development and Comorbidity
    Rolf Loeber; Fiscal Year: 2009
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  10. DEVELOPMENT OF SUBSTANCE USE IN GIRLS
    Rolf Loeber; Fiscal Year: 2009
    ..The Pittsburgh Girl Study is one of the very few studies in the USA that can examine these relationships from childhood through adolescence. ..
  11. The Development of Conduct Disorder in Girls
    Rolf Loeber; Fiscal Year: 2007
    ..abstract_text> ..
  12. DEVELOPMENT OF SUBSTANCE USE IN GIRLS
    Rolf Loeber; Fiscal Year: 2007
    ..The Pittsburgh Girl Study is one of the very few studies in the USA that can examine these relationships from childhood through adolescence. ..
  13. Desistance versus persistence in antisocial behavior
    Rolf Loeber; Fiscal Year: 2007
    ..In addition, we will explore whether resistors are able to function as well adjusted adults, free from significant mental health problems (e.g., antisocial personality disorder, substance abuse, depression). ..
  14. TRACING DIVERGING LIVES AND CONVERGING PROBLEMS
    Rolf Loeber; Fiscal Year: 2001
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  15. DEVELOPMENT OF ANTISOCIAL PERSONALITY DISORDERS
    Rolf Loeber; Fiscal Year: 1999
    ..In secondary analyses, we will also examine a broad range of developmental outcomes of children with disruptive behavior disorders who do not develop Antisocial Personality. ..
  16. MOVING INTO ADULTHOOD--DEVELOPMENT AND RISK PATTERNS
    Rolf Loeber; Fiscal Year: 1993
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  17. THE DEVELOPMENT OF CONDUCT DISORDER IN BOYS
    Rolf Loeber; Fiscal Year: 1993
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  18. HYPERACTIVITY & THE DEVELOPMENT OF CONDUCT DISORDER
    Rolf Loeber; Fiscal Year: 1990
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  19. DEVELOPMENT AND RISK OF JUVENILE DRUG ABUSE
    Rolf Loeber; Fiscal Year: 2001
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