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- Title
Diversity in the School Problems of Economically Disadvantaged Adolescents: Dual Pathways of Reading and Externalizing Problems.
- Authors
Ackerman, Brian; Smith, Clare; Kobak, Roger
- Abstract
This study of economically disadvantaged 13-year-olds examined the relations between serious reading difficulties and clinical levels of externalizing behaviors in school. The variable-centered results showed that family variables, adolescent verbal ability, and negative emotion patterns differed in uniquely predicting reading achievement and externalizing behaviors. The person-centered analyses established robust groups of adolescents showing problems in a single domain, both domains, or neither domain, and that family and adolescent variables distinguished the adolescent groups in predictable ways. Longitudinal results available for a subsample showed that high problem levels for the groups were stable across elementary school and associated with first-grade characteristics. The results provide evidence for relatively independent pathways of reading and externalizing difficulties for young disadvantaged adolescents.
- Subjects
READING disability; EDUCATION of teenagers; POOR teenagers; ADOLESCENT psychology; DIVERSITY in education; READING; BEHAVIORAL research
- Publication
Social Development, 2009, Vol 18, Issue 3, p597
- ISSN
0961-205X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1467-9507.2008.00496.x