ACCOUNTING FOR CHANGE IN PSYCHOPATHOLOGY--AGE 17 TO 25

描述(摘自申请者的摘要)：该研究将审查 青少年成长为青壮年时的变化。两百名青少年 将从一个大的纵向队列中选出存在高 儿童和青春期的低风险特征，过度抽样 对于他们人格症状的大的积极和消极的变化 无序。事件和过渡的叙事史反映了 将收集高中后几年发生的动态过程 通过对年轻人和他们的母亲的半结构化采访 看门人。另有二百名年龄介乎17至23岁的青少年将从 产生原始样本的相同的人口普查轨迹。新的 受试者将每年以预期的方式接受关于 正在收集的回溯数据的过渡相同 原始样品。同样的数据将被追溯地引出 研究结束时的预期队列。 过渡水平和质量方面的增长曲线成分 转变(机构、挑战、认同、掌握、期望) 将被分析为早期症状和风险的结果以及 人格障碍症状变化的预测因子。信息来自 将使用新的随机样本来确定是否存在追溯 事件报道中的歪曲。

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.