Using complementary methods to test whether marriage limits men's antisocial behavior
Using complementary methods to test whether marriage limits men's antisocial behavior
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使用补充方法测试婚姻是否限制男性的反社会行为
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发表时间：
2013
影响因子：
3.3
通讯作者：
R. Coley
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作者：
S. Jaffee;C. Lombardi;R. Coley
摘要 已婚男性的反社会行为明显少于未婚男性，但这是否反映了因果关系尚不清楚。相反，这种关系可能反映了婚姻选择，即最有可能结婚的男性（受过高等教育、有稳定工作的男性）最不可能从事反社会行为。这种关系也可能是反向因果关系的结果，即高度的反社会行为是婚姻的阻碍，而不是相反。这两个替代过程都与某些男性具有基于基因的结婚倾向的可能性一致，即活跃的基因型-环境相关性。我们使用四种互补的方法，检验了婚姻限制男性反社会行为的假设。这些方法各有优缺点，共同有助于排除婚姻与男性反社会行为之间因果关系的其他解释，包括活跃的基因型-环境相关性。数据取自国家青少年健康纵向研究的家庭访谈样本，这是一项针对美国全国代表性青少年样本的大型纵向调查研究。滞后负二项式和逻辑回归以及倾向评分匹配模型（n = 2,250）、个体内变化的固定效应模型（n = 3,061）以及兄弟姐妹差异的随机效应模型（n = 618）都表明，已婚男性的反社会行为明显少于未婚男性。我们的研究结果复制了其他关于婚姻和男性反社会行为的准实验研究的结果，并将结果扩展到具有全国代表性的美国年轻人样本。
Abstract Married men engage in significantly less antisocial behavior than unmarried men, but it is not clear whether this reflects a causal relationship. Instead, the relationship could reflect selection into marriage whereby the men who are most likely to marry (men in steady employment with high levels of education) are the least likely to engage in antisocial behavior. The relationship could also be the result of reverse causation, whereby high levels of antisocial behavior are a deterrent to marriage rather than the reverse. Both of these alternative processes are consistent with the possibility that some men have a genetically based proclivity to become married, known as an active genotype–environment correlation. Using four complementary methods, we tested the hypothesis that marriage limits men's antisocial behavior. These approaches have different strengths and weaknesses and collectively help to rule out alternative explanations, including active genotype–environment correlations, for a causal association between marriage and men's antisocial behavior. Data were drawn from the in-home interview sample of the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, a large, longitudinal survey study of a nationally representative sample of adolescents in the United States. Lagged negative binomial and logistic regression and propensity score matching models (n = 2,250), fixed-effects models of within-individual change (n = 3,061), and random-effects models of sibling differences (n = 618) all showed that married men engaged in significantly less antisocial behavior than unmarried men. Our findings replicate results from other quasiexperimental studies of marriage and men's antisocial behavior and extend the results to a nationally representative sample of young adults in the United States.
影响因子：
5
作者：
Krueger, RF
通讯作者：
Krueger, RF
影响因子：
22.4
作者：
Jaffee, Sara R.;Strait, Luciana B.;Odgers, Candice L.
通讯作者：
Odgers, Candice L.