Problem boys in young adulthood: Teachers' ratings and twelve-year follow-up.

摘要: In an earlier paper we reported that teachers' ratings of child guidance clinic children were associated with the children's global adjustment in young adulthood. Teachers' ratings, especially peer relations measure, far surpassed other data sources predicting general adult mental status. Other developmental history, social family information, and psychiatric psychological evaluations. The purposes present investigation to evaluate mother-son reliability on adulthood determine whether teacher-rated behaviors boys predicted specific or only globally related. Interviewed separately when sons adults, mothers closely agreed sons' behavior, somewhat underreporting negative behaviors. major finding was one item,fails get along children, a wide spectrum This not due indicator serving as statistic reflecting childhood impairment. It also found composite scores bad conduct significantly related each other.