ACCOUNTING FOR CHANGE IN PSYCHOPATHOLOGY--AGE 17 TO 25

描述（改编自申请人摘要）：本研究将检查 在青少年成长为年轻人时发生的变化。 200名青少年 将从一个大型纵向队列中选择高水平的 儿童和青少年时期的低风险特征， 在他们的人格症状中有很大的积极和消极的变化 disorder. 事件和过渡的叙述历史，反映了 将收集高中后几年发生的动态过程 通过对年轻人及其母亲的半结构化访谈， 管理员 另外200名17-23岁的年轻人将从 与原始样本相同的人口普查轨迹。 新 受试者将每年接受一次前瞻性的采访， 在以下数据库中收集回顾性数据的相同过渡 原单 同样的数据将被追溯到这一点 研究期结束时的前瞻性队列。 过渡水平和质量方面的增长曲线组成部分 过渡（能动性、挑战、识别、掌握、期望） 将作为早期症状和风险的结果进行分析， 人格障碍症状变化的预测因素。 信息从 将使用新的随机样本来确定是否存在回顾性 歪曲事实的报道。

DESCRIPTION (Adapted from applicant's abstract): The study will examine changes in adolescents as they become young adults. Two hundred adolescents will be selected from a large longitudinal cohort for the presence of high and low risk characteristics during childhood and adolescence, over sampling for large positive and negative changes in their symptoms of personality disorder. Narrative histories of events and transitions reflecting the dynamic processes occurring during post high school years will be collected via semistructured interviews of the young adults and their maternal caretakers. Another two hundred youth ages 17-23 will be newly sampled from the same census tracks that gave rise to the original sample. The new subjects will be interviewed annually in a prospective fashion about the same transitions on which retrospective data is being collected in the original sample. The same data will be elicited retrospectively of this prospective cohort at the end of the study period. Growth curve components of both transition level and qualitative aspects of the transitions (agency, challenge, identification, mastery, expectations) will be analyzed as outcomes of the earlier symptoms and risks and as predictors of change in personality disorder symptoms. Information from the new random sample will be used to ascertain the presence of retrospective distortion in the reporting of events.