Modeling growth in boys' aggressive behavior across elementary school: links to later criminal involvement, conduct

Cindy M Schaeffer1, Hanno Petras, Nicholas Ialongo

  • 1Department of Psychology, University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD 21250, USA. cschaeff@umbc.edu

Developmental Psychology
|October 31, 2003
PubMed

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