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Can Addictive Behaviors Be Predicted in Preschool

(5/1/2012)

By Maia Szalavitz
TIME
April 26, 2012

Children’s behavior at age 3 offers some surprising clues about their risk of developing addictive behaviors like problem gambling or drug misuse in their 30s, according to data from an ongoing study of nearly 1,000 people in New Zealand. The research, which has so far tracked participants’ psychological, economic and intellectual life course from birth to age 32, involves virtually all of the children born in Dunedin, New Zealand, between April 1972 and March 1973.

View the full article: http://healthland.time.com/2012/04/26/how-preschool-behavior-can-predict-addiction-and-problem-gambling-in-adulthood/?iid=hl-main-lede

Keywords: addictive, behaviors, predicted, preschool

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