Leeftijd, geslacht en competentiebeleving in relatie tot externaliserend gedrag

The Preventive Intervention Team Amsterdam has researched that due to the underdevelopment of social cognitive skills, children may develop more externalizing behaviour problems then peers. Current research investigates the relationship of age, sex and competence on externalizing behaviour to see whether these factors have led to behavioural change. The dataset of the Preventive Intervention Team Amsterdam was used and the sample consists 211 participants (171 boys and 40 girls) between the ages of six and twelve years old, living in Amsterdam. To measure the degree of externalizing problem behaviour, the Teachers Report Form was used, whereby children were eligible to participate in the interventions if their score was found to be (sub)clinical. In this study, no effect was found in the average externalizing behaviour between children with a low and high competence perception and between children ages six to nine and nine to twelve years old. In addition, it was found that age does...Show moreThe Preventive Intervention Team Amsterdam has researched that due to the underdevelopment of social cognitive skills, children may develop more externalizing behaviour problems then peers. Current research investigates the relationship of age, sex and competence on externalizing behaviour to see whether these factors have led to behavioural change. The dataset of the Preventive Intervention Team Amsterdam was used and the sample consists 211 participants (171 boys and 40 girls) between the ages of six and twelve years old, living in Amsterdam. To measure the degree of externalizing problem behaviour, the Teachers Report Form was used, whereby children were eligible to participate in the interventions if their score was found to be (sub)clinical. In this study, no effect was found in the average externalizing behaviour between children with a low and high competence perception and between children ages six to nine and nine to twelve years old. In addition, it was found that age does not moderate the effect of competence perception on externalizing behaviour. In conclusion, age, sex and competency perception explain only a small part of the variance in externalizing behaviour. The results of this study show that there is no moderation effect of age on the association of competence perception and externalizing behavior. The findings suggest that further research into other factors that predict behaviour change is important to make the interventions of the Preventive Intervention Team even more effective. Keywords: sex, age, competence, externalizing problem behaviourShow less

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