MOVING AGAINST THE WORLD - LIFE-COURSE PATTERNS OF EXPLOSIVE CHILDREN
MOVING AGAINST THE WORLD - LIFE-COURSE PATTERNS OF EXPLOSIVE CHILDREN
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DOI：
10.1037/0012-1649.24.6.824
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发表时间：
1987-03-01
影响因子：
4
通讯作者：
BEM, DJ
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作者：
CASPI, A;ELDER, GH;BEM, DJ
坏脾气的孩子会变成坏脾气的成年人吗？这样一种爆炸性的干预方式会对生命历程产生什么样的后果？什么样的过程可以解释适应不良行为在时间和环境中的持续存在？为了回答这些问题，本研究使用了伯克利指导研究（Macfarlane，艾伦和Honzik，1954）的数据，以确定儿童后期（8-10岁）的脾气暴躁模式，并追踪这种行为风格在随后30年的生活中的连续性和后果。这种行为方式的生命历程的连续性，发现两性。有童年发脾气历史的男性经历了职业的向下流动，不稳定的工作生活，并且很可能离婚。有这种历史的妇女嫁给了职业地位较低的男子，很可能离婚，并成为脾气暴躁的母亲。有人建议，适应不良行为是持续的，通过逐步积累自己的后果（累积连续性），并唤起维持反应，从他人在互惠的社会互动（international连续性）。
Do ill-tempered children become ill-tempered adults? What are the life-course consequences of such an explosive interactional style? What processes can account for the persistence of maladaptive behavior across time and circumstance? To answer these questions, this sutdy used data from the Berkeley Guidance Study (Macfarlane, Allen, and Honzik, 1954) to identify children with a pattern of temper tantrums in late childhood (ages 8-10) and to trace the continuities and consequences of this behavioral style across the subsequent 30 years of their lives. Life-course continuities in this behavioral style were found for both sexes. Men with histories of childhood tantrums experienced downward occupational mobility, erratic work lives, and were likely to divorce. Women with such histories married men with lower occupational status, were likely to divorce, and became ill-tempered mothers. It is proposed that maladaptive behaviours are sustained through the progressive accumulation of their own consequences (cumulative continuity) and by evoking maintaining responses from others during reciprocal social interaction (interactional continuity).