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This work was conducted in partial fulfillment for the requirements of a doctoral degree of the senior author at the University of Tennessee. The authors acknowledge the assistance of Neil Cohen, Mary Ann Pentz, Richard Saudargas, and Robert G. Wahler in carrying out this study and the helpful comments of the anonymous reviewers. Additional analyses were performed while the author was a Clinical Research Training fellow in Adolescence (funded by T32 MH 14668) at the Institute for Psychosomatic and Psychiatric Research and Training, Michael Reese Hospital and Medical Center in a program also sponsored by the Departments of Behavioral Science and Psychiatry, University of Chicago and the Adolescent Program of the Illinois State Psychiatric Institute.
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Tolan, P.H., Lorion, R.P. Multivariate approaches to the identification of delinquency proneness in adolescent males. Am J Commun Psychol 16, 547–561 (1988). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00922770
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