Influence of Generational Status on Developmental Trajectories of Delinquency for Asian, African American, Hispanic, and White Youth
Influence of Generational Status on Developmental Trajectories of Delinquency for Asian, African American, Hispanic, and White Youth
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DOI：
10.1037/a0025795
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发表时间：
2011-12-01
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1.5
通讯作者：
Stockdale, Gary D.
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作者：
Le, Thao N.;Stockdale, Gary D.
使用两个全国代表性的数据集，青少年健康纵向研究（添加健康）和全国青年纵向研究（NLSY 97），本研究探讨了亚洲，非洲裔美国人，西班牙裔，和白色种族/民族的青少年犯罪的发展轨迹，并探讨是否世代状态和性别影响这些轨迹不同的亚洲与其他群体。分析包括使用Mplus 5.21统计软件的多组建模。在Add Health数据集中，第一代亚洲人的犯罪率低于第二代亚洲人;在两个数据集中，西班牙裔种族/民族都是如此。此外，在所有种族中，女性在青春期早期的起点都低于男性。然而，所有的群体，无论最初的青少年犯罪率在13岁，最终收敛到低值在青年成年，在25岁。当协变量被纳入模型时，这种收敛也是真实的。研究结果支持Rowe，Vazsonyi和Flannery（1994）的主张，即不同种族/民族群体，包括亚洲人，有着相似的犯罪发展轨迹，以及年龄犯罪曲线理论的观点。
Using two nationally representative datasets, the Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health) and the National Longitudinal Study of Youth (NLSY97), this study examined the developmental trajectories of delinquency for Asian, African American, Hispanic, and White race/ethnicity, and explored whether generation status and gender influenced these trajectories differently for Asian versus the other groups. Analyses included multi-group modeling using Mplus 5.21 statistical software. In the Add Health dataset, first-generation Asians had lower rates of delinquency than second-generation Asians; this was true for Hispanic race/ethnicity across both datasets. In addition, females started out lower than males in early adolescence across all races. However, all groups, regardless of initial delinquency rates in early adolescence at age 13, eventually converged to low values in young adulthood, at age 25. This convergence was also true when covariates were incorporated in the models. The results lend support to Rowe, Vazsonyi, and Flannery's (1994) assertion that different racial/ethnic groups, including Asians, share similar developmental trajectories for delinquency, as well as to the ideas of the age-crime curve theory.