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Title: Adolescent Sexual and Nonsexual Deviance: Stability Over Time and Generations
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1. Ketterlinus, Robert D.
Nitz, Katherine
Adolescent Sexual and Nonsexual Deviance: Stability Over Time and Generations
Presented: Seattle, WA, Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, April 1991
Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79, NLSY79
Publisher: Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD)
Keyword(s): Adolescent Fertility; Behavior Problems Index (BPI); Behavioral Problems; Child Development; Children; Children, Behavioral Development; Deviance; General Assessment; Mothers; Pre-natal Care/Exposure; Pre/post Natal Health Care; Self-Perception; Sexual Activity; Sexual Behavior; Teenagers

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The purpose of this study is to explore different patterns of transmission, stability, and co-occurrence of sexual and nonsexual problem behaviors among adolescents and their children. Data were obtained from the NLSY, a longitudinal survey of a national probability sample of American youth and their children. Exploratory data analysis using Partial Least-Squares techniques suggested that maternal deviance assessed in 1980 is a relatively strong predictor of 1986 child problem behaviors. Maternal self-concept, IQ, sociodemographics, and father's involvement were also associated with child outcomes suggesting that there may be different patterns of intergenerational transmission of problem behaviors among sub-groups of mother-child dyads. The determinants of continuity/discontinuity in problem behaviors across generations and stability in adolescents' problem behaviors are assessed.
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Ketterlinus, Robert D. and Katherine Nitz. "Adolescent Sexual and Nonsexual Deviance: Stability Over Time and Generations." Presented: Seattle, WA, Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, April 1991.