Advanced Search

Journal Navigation

Journal Home

Subscriptions

Archive

Contact Us

Table of Contents

Click here to watch the video

CiteULike is a free service for managing and discovering scholarly references - click here to get started.

Sign In to gain access to subscriptions and/or personal tools.
The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science
This Article
Right arrow Full Text (PDF)
Right arrow References
Right arrow Alert me when this article is cited
Right arrow Alert me if a correction is posted
Right arrow Citation Map
Services
Right arrow Email this article to a friend
Right arrow Similar articles in this journal
Right arrow Alert me to new issues of the journal
Right arrow Add to Saved Citations
Right arrow Download to citation manager
Right arrowRequest Permissions
Right arrow Request Reprints
Right arrow Add to My Marked Citations
Citing Articles
Right arrow Citing Articles via HighWire
Right arrow Citing Articles via Web of Science (3)
Right arrow Citing Articles via Google Scholar
Right arrow Citing Articles via Scopus
Google Scholar
Right arrow Articles by Maughan, B.
Right arrow Search for Related Content
Social Bookmarking
Add to CiteULike   Add to Complore   Add to Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us   Add to Digg   Add to Reddit   Add to Technorati   Add to Twitter  
What's this?

Developmental Trajectory Modeling: A View from Developmental Psychopathology

Barbara Maughan

UK Medical Research Council; Social, Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London, United Kingdom.

Since its introduction just over a decade ago, developmental trajectory modeling has had a major impact in studies of childhood behavior problems as well as in studies of crime. This article explores some of the issues it raises from the perspective of developmental psychopathology. First, it notes debates over categorical versus dimensional approaches to the conceptualization and analysis of behavior and argues that in the current state of knowledge, much can be gained from exploring each. Second, it highlights heterogeneity in the behavioral manifestations of antisocial traits in childhood and suggests that trajectory modeling could productively be used to track trajectories in these differing aspects of child behavior problems. Third, it argues that though trajectories are typically analyzed in relation to age, a developmental approach requires that researchers "unpack" these associations to uncover the other aspects of development—biological, psychological, or social— that underlie the age trends they observe.

Key Words: categories • dimensions • heterogeneity • psychopathology • puberty

The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Vol. 602, No. 1, 118-130 (2005)
DOI: 10.1177/0002716205281067
Add to CiteULike CiteULike   Add to Complore Complore   Add to Connotea Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us Del.icio.us   Add to Digg Digg   Add to Reddit Reddit   Add to Technorati Technorati   Add to Twitter Twitter    What's this?


This article has been cited by other articles:


Home page
 The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social ScienceHome page
D. S. Nagin and R. E. Tremblay
Further Reflections on Modeling and Analyzing Developmental Trajectories: A Response to Maughan and Raudenbush
The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, November 1, 2005; 602(1): 145 - 154.
[Abstract] [PDF]

Home page
 The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social ScienceHome page
A. Blumstein
An Overview of the Symposium and Some Next Steps
The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, November 1, 2005; 602(1): 242 - 258.
[Abstract] [PDF]