Predicting overt and covert antisocial behaviors: parents, peers, and homelessness

Parents and peers as social influences to deter antisocial behavior.

Growth curve analyses were used to investigate parents' and peers' influence on adolescents' choice to abstain from antisocial behavior in a community-based sample of 416 early adolescents living in the Southeastern United States. Participants were primarily European American (91%) and 51% were girls. Both parents and peers were important influences on the choice to abstain from antisocial beha...

Overt and Covert Narcissism in Iranian Students: The Role of Self-esteem and Shame

Objective: For decades, both theory and research have focused on the role of self-esteem and shame in constructing narcissistic traits. However, studies on the exact relationship between these two and overt and covert facets of narcissism have been equivocal.  Methods: The current study is correlational. It examined these relationships among 308 Iranian college students (155 males, 153 femal...

Behavior Patterns of Antisocial Teenagers Interacting with Parents and Peers: A Longitudinal Study

Antisocial behavior may begin during childhood and if maintained during adolescence, is likely to continue and escalate during adulthood. During adolescence, in particular, it has been established that antisocial behavior may be reinforced and shaped by exchanges between the teenager and his parents and peers, although the molecular process of these relations is as yet unknown. This paper explo...

Overt and Covert Institutionalization in Europe

Brain vascular disease overt and covert.

See related article, pages 2116–2120 Work from the Leukoaraiosis and Disability (LADIS) Study Group1 and from others characterizing brain structure and function in the elderly continue to challenge myopic views of how vascular disease affects the brain. What most often demands attention and consumes resources—patients with symptoms and signs of stroke and transient ischemic attack—represents th...