Positive Childhood Experiences and Positive Adult Functioning: Prosocial Continuity and the Role of Adolescent Substance Use
Positive Childhood Experiences and Positive Adult Functioning: Prosocial Continuity and the Role of Adolescent Substance Use
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DOI：
10.1016/j.jadohealth.2010.11.244
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发表时间：
2011-08-01
影响因子：
7.6
通讯作者：
Redmond, Cleve
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作者：
Kosterman, Rick;Mason, W. Alex;Redmond, Cleve
目的：检验积极的童年经历作为成人积极功能的预测因子，包括公民参与、生产力和责任感、人际关系和体育锻炼；并检验青少年物质使用作为亲社会持续性的中介变量。方法：对429名11-22岁的农村参与者进行了七次访谈。结构方程模型检验了积极的童年经历和成人功能之间的关系，并将青春期物质使用作为可能的中介机制添加到每个模型中。结果：积极的童年经历预测每个模型的成人功能都显著更好，即使在考虑青少年物质使用之后也是如此。积极的童年经历也始终如一地预示着青少年物质使用的显著减少。反过来，青少年物质使用预示着公民参与度显著下降，生产力和责任感下降，但在考虑童年经历时，与人际关系或体育锻炼无关。结果在性别和家庭收入水平上基本一致。结论：研究结果表明，积极的童年经历在预测成年早期的积极功能方面具有持久的重要性。尽管青春期物质使用增加了成人生活重要领域中功能较差的风险，但结果表明，童年后期的积极经历在成年后仍具有显著的亲社会影响。这项研究还强调，小学年级晚些时候，父母、老师和其他人在主动为孩子提供亲社会机会方面可能会有很大的影响。(C)2011年青少年健康和医学学会。版权所有。
Purpose: To examine positive childhood experiences as predictors of positive adult functioning, including civic involvement, productivity and responsibility, interpersonal connection, and physical exercise; and to examine adolescent substance use as a mediator of prosocial continuity.Methods: A total of 429 rural participants were interviewed across seven waves from age 11 to 22 years. Structural equation models examined the relationship between positive childhood experiences and adult functioning, with adolescent substance use added to each model as a possible mediating mechanism.Results: Positive childhood experiences predicted significantly better adult functioning for each model, even after accounting for adolescent substance use. Positive childhood experiences also consistently predicted significantly less adolescent substance use. In turn, adolescent substance use predicted significantly less civic involvement and less productivity and responsibility, but was not associated with interpersonal connection or physical exercise when accounting for childhood experiences. Results were largely consistent across gender and levels of family income.Conclusion: Findings show the enduring importance of positive childhood experiences in predicting positive functioning in early adulthood. Although adolescent substance use increased risk for poorer functioning in important domains of adult life, results suggest that positive experiences in late childhood continued to have a significant prosocial effect into young adulthood. The study also highlights the late elementary grades as a time when parents, teachers, and others can potentially have a large influence in proactively providing prosocial opportunities for children. (C) 2011 Society for Adolescent Health and Medicine. All rights reserved.