Testing descriptive hypotheses regarding sex differences in the development of conduct problems and delinquency
Testing descriptive hypotheses regarding sex differences in the development of conduct problems and delinquency
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DOI：
10.1007/s10802-006-9064-5
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发表时间：
2006-10-01
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3.6
通讯作者：
Keenan, Kate
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作者：
Lahey, Benjamin B.;Van Hulle, Carol A.;Keenan, Kate
对儿童期行为问题和青少年犯罪发展中的性别差异的准确描述，将从根本上重要地为理论提供关于其原因的信息。我们使用全国妇女样本的4,572名子女的数据，检验了关于性别差异的描述性假设。正如所预测的那样，性别差异的大小随年龄而变化，这表明多个过程不同地影响女性和男性在整个发展过程中的这些行为的水平。在童年时期，男孩在认知能力的测量中得分较低，表现出较低的社交能力和顺从性，以及更大的多动症，对立行为和行为问题。这些变量中的大多数都与儿童行为问题和青少年犯罪，同样在女性和男性，但母亲的犯罪和儿童早期的社交能力更强烈地与儿童行为问题的男性和儿童的遵守预测青少年犯罪更强烈的女性。男女都表现出儿童期开始和成年期开始的犯罪轨迹。虽然更多的男性遵循童年发病的轨迹，有几个性别差异的幼儿期风险相关的犯罪轨迹。
Accurate descriptions of sex differences in the development of childhood conduct problems and adolescent delinquency will inform theories of their causes in fundamentally important ways. Using data on 4,572 offspring of a national sample of women, we tested descriptive hypotheses regarding sex differences. As predicted, the magnitude of sex differences varied with age, suggesting that multiple processes differentially influence levels of these behaviors in females and males across development. During childhood, boys scored lower on measures of cognitive ability and exhibited lower sociability and compliance and greater hyperactivity, oppositional behavior, and conduct problems. Most of these variables were associated with childhood conduct problems and adolescent delinquency equally in females and males, but maternal delinquency and early childhood sociability were correlated more strongly with childhood conduct problems in males and childhood compliance predicted adolescent delinquency more strongly in females. Both sexes exhibited both childhood-onset and adolescent-onset trajectories of delinquency. Although more males followed a childhood-onset trajectory, there were few sex differences in the early childhood risk correlates of either delinquency trajectory.