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Identifying prototypical developmental trajectories of aggression has emerged as a useful approach to understanding variation in a range of outcomes (e.g., internalizing or externalizing symptoms, substance use, adolescent pregnancy, resilience) among adolescents with a common set of early risk factors. Life-course and transactional theories of development suggest differentiation of patterns of aggression, based on the onset, persistence, and desistanceof antisocial behavior problems. A large body of longitudinal research provides empirical support for several developmental prototypes of aggression; however, there are still areas of contention and several gaps in the research. For example, because much of the early research on developmental trajectories has focused on males, it is less clear how well these theoretical prototypes generalize to females. However, more recent studies have begun to shed light on potential gender differences in developmental trajectories. There is...
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Bradshaw, C.P., Zmuda, J.H., Petras, H., Schaeffer, C.M., Ialongo, N.S. (2011). Trajectories of Aggressive-Disruptive Behavior. In: Levesque, R.J.R. (eds) Encyclopedia of Adolescence. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-1695-2_142
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