Problem Behaviors in Maltreated Children and Youth: Influential Child, Peer, and Caregiver Characteristics, 1999-2000 [United States]
Description
This project examined the problem behaviors of maltreated
children and adolescents and the predictors of changes in behavior
over an 18-month period. Problem behaviors included aggression,
delinquency, risky sexual practices, substance abuse, and suicidal
behaviors. The project used data from the National Survey of Child and
Adolescent Well-Being (NSCAW), a national probability survey of
children assessed following a child maltreatment report. This
collection consists of SAS code used to produce subsets of the NSCAW
data and the analyses for three chapters of the project's final
report. Chapter 2 examined aggression and changes in behavior over 18
months for children aged six to ten years at the time of the baseline
interview. Chapter 3 examined self-reported delinquency and
caregiver-reported aggressive and delinquent behavior and changes in
behavior over 18 months for youth aged 11 to 15 years at the time of
the baseline interview. Chapter 4 examined risky behavior changes
(risky sexual behavior, substance abuse, and suicidal risk behavior)
over 18 months for youth aged 11 to 15 years at the time of the
baseline interview.