Joint Trajectories of Symptoms of Disruptive Behavior Problems and Depressive…

The joint, longitudinal trajectories of symptoms of disruptive behavior problems and of depression were examined in a community sample drawn from neighborhoods with elevated rates of delinquency. Growth mixture modeling was applied to a 6 year transition period from childhood to adolescence,age 10 to 16 years, to identify latent classes of trajectories for each symptom type. Several classes eme…