Can We Identify a Group of Children at Age 2 Who Are at High Risk for the Development of Behavior or Emotional Problems in Kindergarten and First Grade?

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A group of 198 children were followed from age 2 through 1st grade to see how consistent their behavior was across time and across settings. Measures of child behavior in the home were obtained when the children were ages 2, 4 and 5. Classroom behavior was ascertained when the children were in nursery school, kindergarten and 1st grade. Correlations between early home and school behavior patterns were all quite low. Only when home and school measures were made close to the same point in time did relationships reach even a moderate level. Behavior within the same setting was more consistent over time than behavior across settings but even here relationships were not strong enough to be clinically useful for making predictions about individual children. Early behavior in the home is not by itself sufficiently predictive of later home or school behavior to warrent identifying the child or his family as being at high risk for future problems.

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