The Latent Structure of Youth Responses
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Melanie A. Dirks; Teresa A. Treat; V. Robin Weersing
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Article
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2010
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Springer US
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English
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This study examined whether the three categories often applied to children’s behavior—aggressive, avoidant, and assertive—actually capture the structure of a naturalistic sample of youth behavior coded at a more micro level. A sample of lower-income youth (__N__ = 392; __M__ age = 12.69, __SD__ = 0.