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Title: Children of Adolescent Mothers: Gender Differences in the Transmission of Problem Behavior
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1. Nitz, Katherine
Children of Adolescent Mothers: Gender Differences in the Transmission of Problem Behavior
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; Children, Home Environment; Gender Differences; General Assessment; Home Observation for Measurement of Environment (HOME); Mothers, Adolescent

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Using data from the NLSY, factors influencing the occurrence of problem behaviors in 3,307 adolescent mothers and their first born children were examined. Results of logistic regression indicate that by far the quality of the home environment was the best predictor of problem behaviors for both boys and girls. In contrast, maternal deviance in 1980 was a relatively strong predictor of problem behaviors in 1986 for girls, but not for boys. Results are discussed in relation to the environmental and psychological factors that may buffer the transmission of problem behaviors across generations for both boys and girls.
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Nitz, Katherine. "Children of Adolescent Mothers: Gender Differences in the Transmission of Problem Behavior." Presented: Seattle, WA, Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, April 1991.