Transition Into Adulthood

为什么青少年会参与不同类型的活动？为什么有些人努力学习学校的科目，而另一些人则参与其他活动，包括问题行为？这些活动选择是否与他们在20岁出头时追求的教育、职业和家庭选择有关？这是对现有大规模数据集的纵向跟踪。这些研究者已经建立了一个理论框架来研究这些问题，并使用这个模型对2380名青少年在青春期教育和角色相关选择的个体发生过程中进行了研究。这个项目跟踪了这个样本，因为他们正在向成年过渡，并将评估预测成人角色选择的框架的实用性，并观察青少年行为模式和社会经历的长期后遗症。将收集两种类型的数据。将进行电话访谈，并将数据与与其他支助部门一起收集的调查问卷数据合并。这些数据随后将被用来检验基本的理论预测。

ABSTRACT Why do adolescents engage in different types of activities? Why do some work hard on their school subjects while others get involved in other activities, including problem behaviors? Do these activity choices related to the educational, vocational, and family options they pursue in their early twenties? This is a longitudinal follow-up to an existing large scale data set. These investigators have developed a theoretical framework to investigate such questions and have used this model to study during the ontogeny of education and role-related choices during adolescence in a sample of 2380 youths. This project follows this sample as they make the transition into adulthood and will assess the utility of the framework for predicting adult role choices and look at the long term sequelae of adolescent behavior patterns and social experiences. Two type of data will be collected. A telephone interview will be conducted, and data will be merged with questionnaire data collected with other support. These data will then be used to test basic theoretical predictions.