Correlates of Externalizing Behavior Symptoms Among Youth Within Two Impoverished, Urban Communities

Physical Activity Correlates among Urban and Rural Youth

Regular physical activity (PA) is important for the healthy growth and development of children and youth. Public health initiatives aimed at improving levels of PA among youth have not had a substantial impact, with participation rates continuing to be below recommended targets. The most current data from the Canadian Fitness and Lifestyle Research Institute’s (CFLRI) Canadian Physical Activity...

Correlates of internalizing and externalizing behavior problems: perceived competence, causal attributions, and parental symptoms.

Young adolescents in the clinical range on internalizing, externalizing, and both internalizing and externalizing behavior problems, as well as youth in the normal range on both types of problems, were identified separately using adolescents' self-reports and mothers' reports of behavior problems. In comparisons of groups identified on the basis of either type of informant, differences among th...

The relationships among aggressive functions , family factors , and internalizing and externalizing symptoms in youth

Corporal punishment and youth externalizing behavior in Santiago, Chile.

OBJECTIVES Corporal punishment is still widely practiced around the globe, despite the large body of child development research that substantiates its short- and long-term consequences. Within this context, this paper examined the relationship between parental use of corporal punishment and youth externalizing behavior with a Chilean sample to add to the growing empirical evidence concerning th...

Association of externalizing behavior disorder symptoms and injury among fifth graders.

OBJECTIVE Injury is the leading cause of death among American youth, killing more 11-year-olds than all other causes combined. Children with symptoms of externalizing behavior disorders such as attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and conduct disorder (CD) may have increased risk. Our aims were to determine: (1) whether increasing symptoms of ADHD and CD associate positively with inj...