Correlates of aggression in African American and Puerto Rican children. From: Journal of Genetic Psychology | Date: June 1, 2004| Author: Brook, Judith S.; Rosenberg, Gary; Brook, David W.; Balka, Elinor B.; Meade, Michael | COPYRIGHT 2004 Heldref Publications. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

The authors examined a cross-sectional interrelationship of psychosocial domains as they relate to aggression in a group of African American and English-speaking Puerto Rican children living in New York City. The population included 80 biological children of African American and Puerto Rican young adults who had been participating in the authors' ongoing longitudinal study, and 77 mothers or mother substitutes (rearing mothers) of those children. The authors performed hierarchical multiple ...

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