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Findings regarding externalizing problems were contrary to previous research suggesting that adolescents who report more externalizing problems are more likely to initiate sexual intercourse early (Donenberg et al., 2003).

Girls who were pure victims also showed more externalizing problems than controls.

Compared with controls and pure victims, bully/victims showed more internalizing problems, more externalizing problems, and fewer prosocial behaviors when they were 5 and 7 years.

A sum score was calculated, with higher scores indicating more externalizing problems (T1: α = 0.81, T2: α = 0.84).

However, we found that by the age of 19, family bereavement between 0 and 19 years significantly predicted more externalizing problems.

Gifted children with a significant verbal-performance discrepancy displayed more externalizing problems and mixed behavioral syndromes than gifted children without such a discrepancy.

Second, the effect size for self-reported externalizing problem behavior in adolescents (mean age = 14.70) resulted to be significant (k = 6; N = 449; d = .22; p < .01 (95% CI [.14 .29]), fixed model; d = .28; p = .12 (95% CI [.07 .49]), random model), meaning that adolescents with parental CMC reported comparatively more externalizing problem behavior.

Given that bully victims display more adjustment problems among all children involved in bullying [ 45], it could in the long run turn into more externalizing problem tendencies such as rule-breaking behavior or a tendency to reactive aggression or other internalizing problems such as anxiety [ 46].

While research on children of the general population suggests that boys display more externalizing problem behavior than girls (Bongers et al. 2003; Vaalamo et al. 2002), research on children with a chronically ill parent has shown the opposite (e.g., Visser et al. 2005).

Boys showed more externalizing behavioral problems including attention deficit, hyperactivity, and offensive behaviors (Kim and Doh 2001; Kim et al. 2009).

Hierarchical linear modeling results revealed that less parental monitoring was associated with more externalizing behavior problems at age 11, and more unsupervised time spent out in the community (vs. unsupervised time in any context) and less positive parental involvement were associated with increases in externalizing behavior across time.