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Article: Factorial Structure of Problem Behaviors among Urban and Rural American Adolescents

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Journal of the National Medical Association
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November 1, 2007
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Financial support: This research was supported by the National Institutes of Health (R01HD27114, U01MH48068, R01MH61761, and R01MH54983) and the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research (U01HS07392).

Purpose: The present study was designed to examine the underlying factorial structure of various problem behaviors among diverse populations using data from multiple cohorts of community-based samples of low-income urban African- American and rural Caucasian children and adolescents over multiple years. In this study, we tested the model of a single underlying problem behavior factor against competing models with multiple (and second-order) problem behavior factors.

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