Exploring differences in youth and parent reports of antisociality among adolescent sexual and nonsexual offenders.

2011 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 153-163 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tracey A. Skilling ◽  
James M. Doiron ◽  
Michael C. Seto
2021 ◽  
pp. 095679762097577
Author(s):  
Marissa D. Nivison ◽  
Deborah Lowe Vandell ◽  
Cathryn Booth-LaForce ◽  
Glenn I. Roisman

Retrospective self-report assessments of adults’ childhood experiences with their parents are widely employed in psychological science, but such assessments are rarely validated against actual parenting experiences measured during childhood. Here, we leveraged prospectively acquired data characterizing mother–child and father–child relationship quality using observations, parent reports, and child reports covering infancy through adolescence. At age 26 years, approximately 800 participants completed a retrospective measure of maternal and paternal emotional availability during childhood. Retrospective reports of childhood emotional availability demonstrated weak convergence with composites reflecting prospectively acquired observations ( R2s = .01–.05) and parent reports ( R2s = .02–.05) of parenting quality. Retrospective parental availability was more strongly associated with prospective assessments of child-reported parenting quality ( R2s = .24–.25). However, potential sources of bias (i.e., depressive symptoms and family closeness and cohesiveness at age 26 years) accounted for more variance in retrospective reports (39%–40%) than did prospective measures (26%), suggesting caution when using retrospective reports of childhood caregiving quality as a proxy for prospective data.


2009 ◽  
Vol 12 (8) ◽  
pp. 1213-1223 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nannah I Tak ◽  
Saskia J te Velde ◽  
Johannes Brug

AbstractObjectivesTo evaluate the long-term effects of the Schoolgruiten Project, a Dutch primary school-based intervention providing free fruit and vegetables (F&V). In addition, we assessed whether children’s appreciation of the project mediated these intervention effects.Design and methodsParticipating schoolchildren (mean age 9·9 years at baseline) and their parents completed parallel questionnaires at baseline, at 1-year and at 2-year follow-up, including questions on usual F&V intake of the child, potential behavioural determinants, their appreciation of the project and general demographics. Primary outcomes were usual F&V intakes as assessed by parent and child self-reported food frequency measures. Secondary outcome measures were taste preference, knowledge of daily recommendations, availability and accessibility for fruit intake. Multilevel linear regression analyses were used to assess differences at second follow-up adjusted for baseline values between control and intervention groups.SubjectsReports were available for 346 intervention children (148 parents) and 425 control children (287 parents).ResultsBoth child and parent reports indicated that the intervention group had a significantly higher fruit intake at 2-year follow-up (difference, servings/d: 0·15; 95 % CI 0·004, 0·286 for child reports; 0·19; 95 % CI 0·030, 0·340 for parent reports). No significant effects on vegetable intake were observed. Significant positive intervention effects were also found for knowledge of fruit recommendations among boys. Some evidence was found for partial mediation analyses of the effects on fruit intake.ConclusionThe present study indicates that the Schoolgruiten scheme was effective in increasing children’s fruit intake and that appreciation of the project partially mediated this effect.


2011 ◽  
Vol 42 (4) ◽  
pp. 390-405 ◽  
Author(s):  
Margaret W. Dyson ◽  
Daniel N. Klein ◽  
Thomas M. Olino ◽  
Lea R. Dougherty ◽  
C. Emily Durbin

2004 ◽  
Vol 19 (8) ◽  
pp. 875-890 ◽  
Author(s):  
William R. Lindsay ◽  
Anne H. W. Smith ◽  
Jacqueline Law ◽  
Kathleen Quinn ◽  
Andrew Anderson ◽  
...  

2021 ◽  
Vol 20 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sakinah Binti Idris ◽  
Jorieke Duvekot ◽  
Jan van der Ende ◽  
Kirstin Greaves Lord ◽  
Neeltje van Haren ◽  
...  

The PEERS® (Program for Education and Enrichment of Relational Skills) training targets age-appropriate social skills. By the use of homework assignments and parallel parent sessions the generalization of skills enhanced. The results of this randomized controlled trial show that social skills significantly improved, as indicated by both selfand parent reports. However, the significant increase in observed social skills as observed in the PEERS® condition was as large as the increase observed in the active control condition. Further research will target mediators and moderators of treatment effects.


Sexual Abuse ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 55-78 ◽  
Author(s):  
Melanie Rosa ◽  
Bryanna Fox ◽  
Wesley G. Jennings

Previous empirical inquiries into the etiology of juvenile sex offending have been largely atheoretical. Consequently, a call for studies conducted utilizing developmental and life-course (DLC) criminological theory has been made to better understand the onset, development, risk, and protective factors of juvenile sex offending. Therefore, this study contributes to the discussion by testing key predictions proposed by the DLC framework regarding the theoretical correlates of early onset offending, as applied to juvenile sex offenders (JSOs) and juvenile nonsex offenders (JNSOs). Drawing on a data set of more than 64,000 youth referred to the Florida Department of Juvenile Justice, results indicate that although the number and severity of risk factors for early age of onset differ between the JSOs and JNSOs, the specific type of risk factors that emerged align with DLC theory predictions. The implications of these findings and contributions for DLC theory are also discussed.


2018 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 53-58 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andres De Los Reyes ◽  
Christine M. Ohannessian ◽  
Sarah J. Racz

2015 ◽  
Vol 20 (5) ◽  
pp. e59-e59
Author(s):  
S Holbrook ◽  
A Howlett ◽  
M Hicks ◽  
S Buddhavarapu ◽  
K Hart ◽  
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