Four years of the early risers early-age-targeted preventive intervention: Effects on aggressive children's peer relations

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Behavior Therapy

Volume 34, Issue 4, Autumn 2003, Pages 453-470

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Peer nominations for behavioral reputation, likability, and friendship were examined after 4 years of an ongoing randomized, controlled prevention trial designed to interrupt the developmental trajectory of young aggressive children by improving peer relations. Participants included 125 moderately to highly aggressive children (program and control) and their 4th-grade classmates (N = 1,489). Results indicated that program children, as compared to controls, obtained higher reputation scores on leadership and social etiquette and chose friends with lower aggression. Self-reported quality of friendship also differed between groups, with program children reporting more companionship and recreation, program girls reporting more validation and caring, and severely aggressive program children reporting less aggression toward others than their control counterparts. These findings provide evidence for the generalization of program effects to a natural peer setting.

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Special Series: Behaviorally Oriented Interventions For Children With Aggressive Behavior And/Or Conduct ProblemsFour years of the early risers early-age-targeted preventive intervention: Effects on aggressive children's peer relations

Manual for Teacher's Report Form and 1991 Profile

Identifying children who are rejected by their peers

Developmental Psychology

The Early Risers longitudinal prevention trial: Examination of three year outcomes in aggressive children with intent-to-treat and as-intended analyses

Psychology of Addictive Behaviors

An integrated components preventive intervention for aggressive elementary school children: The Early Risers Program

Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology

Prevention of adolescent drug abuse: Targeting high-risk children with a multifaceted intervention model—The early risers “skills for success” program

Applied & Preventive Psychology

Lifelines and risks: Pathways of youth in our time

Social networks and aggressive behavior: Peer support or peer rejection

Developmental Psychology

Peer group behavior and social status

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Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology

The relations between emotional understanding, intellectual functioning, and disruptive behavior problems in elementary-school-aged children