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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Mar 1.
Published in final edited form as: Child Dev. 2015 Dec 16;87(2):429–445. doi: 10.1111/cdev.12467

Table 1.

Measures.

Variable Variable Label Age Data Instrument
Cognitive Competence

Word skills (yr2) Spache Word-Attack Score 6–7 Spache
ELA grades (yr2) Language Arts Grades 6–7 School Record Form
Acad. comp. (yr5–6) Academic competence 9–11 Teacher Social
Competence

Interpersonal Competence

Social status Social Preference Z–Score 6–7 Sociometrics
Prosocial (pr, yr2) Prosocial Sum Z-Score 6–7 Sociometrics
Prosocial (tch, yr2) Prosocial Behavior Mean 6–7 Teacher Post Report
Auth. acc. (yr2) Authority Acceptance 6–7 Social Health Profile
Prosocial (tch, yr4) Prosocial Behavior Mean 8–9 Teacher Post Report
Auth. acc. (yr4) Authority Acceptance 8–9 Social Health Profile
Prosocial (tch, yrs5–6) Prosocial Teacher Rating 9–11 Teacher Social
Competence

Intrapersonal Competence

Emot. rec. (yr2) Total # Correct Emotion
Recognition Questionnaire
6–7 Emotion Recognition
Questionnaire
Emot. coping (yr2) Positive Response Scale 6–7 Interview on Emotional
Experience
Soc. probsolve (yr2) Mean % of Competent
Responses All Pictures
6–7 Social Problem Solving
Agg attrib. (yr2) % Aggressive/Threatening
Behavior
6–7 Home Interview with Child
Soc. probsolve (yr4) Mean % of Competent
Responses All Pictures
8–9 Social Problem Solving
Hostile attrib. (yr4) % Hostile Attributions 8–9 Home Interview with Child
Emot. reg. (yr5–6) Emotion Regulation Rating 9–11 Teacher Social
Competence
Eff. response (yr5–6) Total of Subscales 9–11 What Do You Think

Young Adult Outcomes

SRD index (yr20) Lifetime Severity-Weighted
Self-Report Index
12–20 Self-Reported Delinquency
No ad arrest (yr 20) Indicator of no Adult Arrest 12–20 Juvenile and Adult Court
Data
No juv arrest (yr 20) Indicator of no Juvenile Arrest 12–20 Juvenile and Adult Court
Data
Gen health (yr 18) Number of General Health
Service Visits
14–18 Service Assessment for
Children and Adolescents
Mental health (yr 18) Number of Mental Health
Service Visits
14–18 Service Assessment for
Children and Adolescents

Note. See Table S1 for full descriptions. In parentheses next to each measure name, “yr” represents the year of data collection. For measures rated both by teachers and peers, “tch” represents the teacher report, and “pr” represents the peer report. Baseline covariates include: site indicators, cohort indicators, screening score, gender, race, maternal depression, hostile attribution, aggressive behavior, appropriateness, family satisfaction, friendship satisfaction, physical punishment, stress, verbal punishment, socioeconomic status, oppositional behavior, discipline, social competence, educational battery score, emotion recognition, maternal warmth, social problem solving, neighborhood satisfaction, and intelligence score. For more information on these measures, see Conduct Problems Prevention Research Group (1999).