U.S.-Federal Republic of Germany Cooperative Research: Developmental Transitions and Adolescent Problem Behavior

该奖项将使安妮C教授。彼得森，部门 个人和家庭研究，宾夕法尼亚州立大学， 与Rainer K教授合作。Silbereisen大学 德国联邦共和国吉森。 他们将研究 在产生问题行为的发展转变中的挑战 一些青少年。 涉及的一些挑战是 青春期早期成熟，青春期早期的学校变化，以及 有限的教育和成人工作机会的期望。 彼得森教授对两个样本进行了纵向研究 美国青少年中， 阶级青少年，另一个是下层到下层中产阶级 青少年。 Silbereisen教授一直在做类似的研究， 使用更大的德国和波兰样本。 通过共同努力， 研究人员将能够检查更广泛的信息， 他们感兴趣的变量，他们将能够测试因果关系， 一些年轻人发展问题的过程模型。 由于合作中所包括的社会的差异， 研究，如上学时间表，时间和结构等变量 进入劳动力市场，以及对何时开始工作的期望， 家庭可以被检查并包括在假设中。

This award will enable Professor Anne C. Petersen, Department of Individual and Family Studies, The Pennsylvania State University, to collaborate with Professor Rainer K. Silbereisen, University of Giessen, Federal Republic of Germany. They will study the role of challenges in developmental transitions for producing problem behavior among some adolescents. Some challenges that have been implicated are early pubertal maturation, a school change in early adolescence, and expectations of limited schooling and adult work opportunities. Professor Petersen has carried out longitudinal studies on two samples of adolescents in the United States, one of middle to upper middle class adolescents, the other of lower to lower middle class adolescents. Professor Silbereisen has been doing similar research, using larger German and Polish samples. By combining their efforts the researchers will be able to examine a broader range of information on their variables of interest, and they will be able to test causal models of the processes by which some young people develop problems. Because of differences in the societies included in the collaborative research, such variables as schooling schedules, times and structures for entering the workforce, and expectations about when to start a family can be examined and included in the hypotheses.