Predictors of Desistance in Antisocial Behavior from Childhood to Adolescence: A Prospective, Longitudinal Investigation

Authors

Presenter(s)

Julia Butler, Daniel Georgesen, Kari Powers, Grace Schneider, Oluwayemisi Tayo-Ayorinde

Comments

9:00-10:15, Kennedy Union Ballroom

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Description

Childhood conduct problems are a reliable predictor of delinquency in adolescence. However, many children desist in their antisociality between these periods. Much work has been done to identify risk and protective factors for antisociality in childhood and adolescence, but less is known about the factors that predict discontinuities in antisociality. This study examined a wide range of dispositional, familial, peer, and sociodemographic factors that might predict desistance in antisociality from childhood to adolescence. Prospective links from these variables to patterns of continuity versus discontinuity in antisociality from childhood to late adolescence were tested in a large, socioeconomically diverse sample of adolescents from across the United States.

Publication Date

4-23-2025

Project Designation

Independent Research

Primary Advisor

Jackson A. Goodnight

Primary Advisor's Department

Psychology

Keywords

Stander Symposium, College of Arts and Sciences

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Recommended Citation

"Predictors of Desistance in Antisocial Behavior from Childhood to Adolescence: A Prospective, Longitudinal Investigation" (2025). Stander Symposium Projects. 4011.
https://ecommons.udayton.edu/stander_posters/4011