Developmental explanations of delinquent behavior among siblings: Common factor vs. transmission mechanisms |
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Authors: | David C. Rowe Chester L. Britt III |
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Affiliation: | (1) School of Family and Consumer Resources, University of Arizona, 85721 Tucson, Arizona;(2) Department of Sociology, University of Illinois, 61801 Urbana, Illinois |
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Abstract: | We compare the statistical fit of two developmental explanations of delinquent behavior using longitudinal sibling data. The transmission effects model relates future delinquency to prior delinquency, delayed sibling effects, and unique environment. The common-factor effects model adds to these influences a latent variable representing persistent causes shared by siblings. These two models were fit to longitudinal data on 470 sibling pairs interviewed on three occasions. The common-factor effects model fit the data more closely than the transmission model. Nonmutually exclusive interpretations of the common effects model include (a) personality dispositions and (b) unchanging aspects of the social environment such as concurrent sibling effects and siblings' common friends. |
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Keywords: | delinquency siblings causal models |
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