Predicting young adult social functioning from developmental trajectories of externalizing behaviour
Predicting young adult social functioning from developmental trajectories of externalizing behaviour
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DOI：
10.1017/s0033291707002309
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发表时间：
2008-07-01
影响因子：
6.9
通讯作者：
Verhulst, F. C.
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作者：
Bongers, I. L.;Koot, H. M.;Verhulst, F. C.
背景儿童和青少年外化问题的长期后果往往涉及成年生活中广泛的社会适应不良。本研究的目的是描述儿童和青少年外化发展轨迹的预测联系，以社会功能在成年。社会功能预测的发展轨迹的父母报告的侵略，反对，财产侵犯和地位侵犯，在纵向多出生队列研究中定义的2076名男性和女性4-18岁。社会功能是通过18-30岁的年轻人的自我报告进行评估的。线性和逻辑回归分析被用来描述发展轨迹与社会功能的前瞻性相关程度。与高水平的轨迹的攻击和侵犯财产的儿童相比，高水平的轨迹的反对和地位侵犯的儿童报告更多的社会功能受损的年轻人。在青春期出现问题的年轻人报告说，与儿童时期就开始出现高水平外化问题的人相比，他们的社会功能总体上受损较少。总的来说，男性在成年后的社会功能比女性更受损。然而，女性与持续的高层次的外化行为报告更多的损害关系比男性与持续的高层次的外化行为。童年时期的高度反对和地位侵犯对成年后严重社会问题的长期影响，要比那些只表现出高度攻击性反社会行为的人强得多。
Background. The long-term consequences of child and adolescent externalizing problems often involve a wide spectrum of social maladaptation in adult life. The purpose of this study was to describe the predictive link of child and adolescent externalizing developmental trajectories to social functioning in adulthood.Method. Social functioning was predicted from developmental trajectories of parent-reported aggression, opposition, property violations and status violations that were defined in a longitudinal multiple birth cohort study of 2076 males and females aged 4-18 years. Social functioning was assessed using self-reports by young adults aged 18-30 years. Linear and logistic regression analyses were used to describe the extent to which developmental trajectories are prospectively related to social functioning.Results. Children with high-level trajectories of opposition and status violations reported more impaired social functioning as young adults than children with high-level trajectories of aggression and property violations. Young adults who showed onset of problems in adolescence reported overall less impaired social functioning than individuals with high-level externalizing problems starting in childhood. Overall, males reported more impaired social functioning in adulthood than females. However, females with persistent high-level externalizing behaviour reported more impairment in relationships than males with persistent high-level externalizing behaviour.Conclusions. The long-term consequences of high levels of opposition and status violations in childhood to serious social problems during adulthood are much stronger than for individuals who show only high levels of aggressive antisocial behaviours.