| Many studies have proposed that various deviant behaviors are part of a latent construct now labelled "general deviance" by criminologists or "problem behavior" by psychologists. However, no studies has tested the existence of this syndrome from a developmental perspective. We will conduct our test with longitudinal data on onset. We will use an adjudicated sample to increase the participation rate for deviant behaviors that are infrequent. In addition, we will perform the test for girls and boys. The results of confirmatory factor analysis (EQS) support the presence of a construct of general deviance with longitudinal data. |
Updated 05/20/2006