Adolescent friendship as a dynamic system: Entropy and deviance in the etiology and course of male antisocial behavior
Adolescent friendship as a dynamic system: Entropy and deviance in the etiology and course of male antisocial behavior
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DOI：
10.1023/b:jacp.0000047213.31812.21
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发表时间：
2004-12-01
影响因子：
3.6
通讯作者：
Bullock, BM
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作者：
Dishion, TJ;Nelson, SE;Bullock, BM
本研究采用动态系统框架研究俄勒冈州青年研究对象（N = 206）从童年（9-10岁）到成年（24-25岁），友谊对反社会行为的影响。男孩们在14岁、16岁和18岁时与朋友的互动被录下来，不正常的内容和人际交往过程被独立编码。条件二元人际过程作为一种通信系统进行研究，并通过信息熵指数进行总结（F. Attneave, 1959）。高熵分数代表无组织的、不可预测的交互模式，而低熵分数则反映有组织的对话。早发反社会男孩和他们最好的朋友的对话比那些适应良好的对照组更缺乏组织，包含更多的异常内容。然而，预测分析揭示了熵和越轨谈话之间的相互作用。与预期一致的是，互动组织良好（即低熵）但越轨内容水平较高的男性最有可能在成年后继续反社会行为。研究结果表明，青少年早期围绕越轨行为组织的友谊动态可能会放大个体适应不良的风险。
A dynamic systems framework was applied to understand the influence of friendship on antisocial behavior from childhood ( age 9-10) through adulthood ( age 24-25) for Oregon Youth Study males (N = 206). Boys were videotaped interacting with a friend at ages 14, 16, and 18, and deviant content and interpersonal processes were independently coded. Conditional dyadic interpersonal processes were studied as a communication system and summarized by an index of information entropy ( F. Attneave, 1959). High entropy scores represent disorganized, unpredictable patterns of interaction, whereas low entropy scores reflect an organized dialogue. Conversations of early-onset antisocial boys and their best friends were less organized and included more deviant content than those of well-adjusted controls. Prediction analyses, however, revealed an interaction between entropy and deviant talk. Consistent with expectation, males with well-organized interactions (i.e., low entropy) but elevated levels of deviant content were most likely to continue antisocial behavior into adulthood. Findings suggest that individual risk for maladaptation may be amplified by early adolescent friendship dynamics organized around deviance.