Ethnicity and discipline interacted in predicting behavior problem
changes. Higher levels of laxness were associated with increases in
teacher-reported behavior problems for Puerto Rican children and decreases
in teacher-reported behavior problems for European American
children. Laxness was not a significant predictor for African American
children. As hypothesized, higher levels of overreactivity were associated
with decreases in teacher-reported and observed behavior
problems in African American children. For Puerto Rican children,
higher levels of overreactivity were associated with increases in
teacher-reported problem behavior