Finally, the extent of negative consequences of a disorder can vary as a function of normative developmental trajectories.
Our second test of the development of coping assessed relations between the adolescent trajectories of coping and active, avoidant, and cognitive coping in young adulthood.
Although post hoc classification of youth to various developmental trajectories has heuristic value, this method is fraught with problems as well.
Given the three time points available for these analyses, linear trajectories were estimated for each construct.
However, recently there have been attempts made to devise statistical methods for classifying subjects into groups based on their developmental trajectories.
One important advantage of the latent class modeling approach described above is that it leads straightforwardly to tests of gender differences in offending trajectories.
The design of the current study precluded us from examining how the development of temperament may influence trajectories of symptomatology in early childhood.
Identical offending trajectories applied for males and females.
