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Relationships among life events, prosocial skills, and behavior problems for 91 first through fourth grade children were examined. The data were based on mothers' reports of their children's lifetime life events, current prosocial skills, and current behavior problems. Higher prosocial skills scores significantly predicted lower Externalizing behavior problem scores. Higher weighted life events scores significantly predicted higher Internalizing behavior problem scores. The weighted life event scores×prosocial skills scores interaction did not significantly predict either Externalizing or Internalizing behavior problem scores. The more parsimonious main effects conceptualization suggests that life events and prosocial skills are orthogonal in young, elementary school children.
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Vinnick, L.A., Erickson, M.T. Relationships among accumulated lifetime life events, prosocial skills, and behavior problems in elementary school children. J Child Fam Stud 1, 141–154 (1992). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01321282
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