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This longitudinal study investigates children's social development and adjustment by following 585 children from two cohorts recruited in consecutive years, 1987 and 1988, from Nashville and Knoxville , Tennessee , and Bloomington , Indiana . The children were recruited the year before they entered kindergarten, and data have been collected every year since. The project is now in its twenty-second year, and data are available from multiple informants, including children, parents, teachers, peers, observers, school records, and court records. This project is has been funded by the National Institute of Mental Health, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, and the National Institute on Drug Abuse.
Principal Investigators:
Kenneth A. Dodge ( Duke University )
John E. Bates , Ph. D. ( Indiana University )
Gregory S. Pettit , Ph. D. ( Auburn University )
The following aims are the core of the project:
1. identifying life experiences that increase the risks for adolescent conduct problems;
2. understanding how life experiences, sociocultural contexts, and biological dispositions combine to develop psychopathology processes;
3. testing the hypothesis that risk factors operate through effects on the child's social knowledge and the ways that children process social information;
4. evaluating a model of "switch points" for changes in a child's adjustment trajectory at normative (e.g., puberty onset) and non-normative (e.g., parental divorce or moving to a new neighborhood) transitions and for determining critical environmental
5. features in development (e.g., harsh discipline in the first five years versus monitoring and guidance in adolescence);
6. assessing specifically adolescent processes crucial to adolescent development;
7. testing the generalizability of models across gender and ethnic groups; and
8. studying the fuller adjustment profiles within which conduct problems may occur, such as school achievement and the internalization of problems.
Contact Information:
Jennifer Lansford | lansford@duke.edu | 217-586-2870
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