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Four-year follow-up of teacher-reported problem behaviours

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 July 2009

Frank C. Verhulst  and
Jan Van Der Ende
Frank C. Verhulst*
Affiliation:
Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at Sophia Children's Hospital, Erasmus University, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Jan Van Der Ende
Affiliation:
Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at Sophia Children's Hospital, Erasmus University, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
*
1Address for correspondence: Professor Frank C. Verhulst, Department of Child Psychiatry, Academic Hospital Rotterdam, Sophia Children's Hospital, Gordelweg 160, 3038 GE Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
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Synopsis

This study investigated the stability and change in teacher-reported problem behaviours across a four-year period. An epidemiological sample of 811 children aged 4–12 at the initial assessment was assessed twice with the Achenbach Teacher Report Form (TRF). We found medium stability in the level of TRF total problem scores. Highest stability was found for aggressive and other externalizing behaviours. Stability was higher for girls than for boys. Of the girls who could be regarded as disturbed at base line, 50% could still be so regarded four years later, whereas only 23% of the boys could be considered persistently disturbed across the study interval. Girls' scores on the Externalizing syndrome were especially stable.

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Psychological Medicine , Volume 21 , Issue 4 , November 1991 , pp. 965 - 977
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1991

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