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Replicated Findings and Future Directions for Intergenerational Studies: Closing Comments

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This commentary summarizes findings from four papers that set out to replicate, albeit not with identical measures or sampling criteria, research on several questions in the multigenerational study of antisocial behavior by children and child-rearing strategies by parents. The weight of the evidence from our studies indicates some degree of intergenerational continuity in behavior. We observed that adjacent generations G1 and G2 are similar with respect to their styles of parenting and that adjacent generations G2 and G3 are similar with respect to antisocial behavior. In addition, the G2 parent's parenting style plays an important role in mediating or transferring the risk of antisocial behavior across the generations. Implications and directions for future research are discussed.

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  1. School of Criminal Justice, University at Albany, Albany, New York

    Terence P. Thornberry

  2. Oregon Research Institute, Eugene, Oregon

    Hyman Hops

  3. Department of Human and Community Development, University of California, Davis, California

    Rand D. Conger

  4. Oregon Social Learning Center, Eugene, Oregon

    Deborah M. Capaldi

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Thornberry, T.P., Hops, H., Conger, R.D. et al. Replicated Findings and Future Directions for Intergenerational Studies: Closing Comments. J Abnorm Child Psychol 31, 201–203 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1022530426113

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