PATHWAYS FROM CHILDHOOD ADVERSITY TO ADULT MENTAL HEALTH

描述（改编自申请人摘要）：本研究旨在 研究儿童期逆境与 早期成人心理健康和社会功能，基于中学 分析了一项10年的纵向研究，范围包括青少年 和成年早期。 拟议的工作将审查在多大程度上 早期的经历会破坏青少年的心理健康， 社会关系和心理发展，并通过培养 不成功的过渡和经历的主要社会角色 标志着进入成年期。 第一个具体目标涉及绘图 根据5波面板数据，明确建立 早期逆境，青少年心理健康和社会发展， 成功进入早期成人角色和早期成人抑郁症。 通过 纳入了对青少年时期经历的若干评估， 成年早期，拟议的研究解决了一个主要的差距， 知识阻碍了几乎所有以前的调查，这些 机制，并改进调查人员在以下方面可采取的措施： 以前的研究。 第二，早期逆境对时机的影响， 青少年入学过渡和在校经历的稳定性和质量 工作角色，婚姻和亲密关系，以及专利， 考察 第三，拟议的研究将探讨替代规格 早期经历与后期生活的联系。 的 儿童早期逆境在增加儿童 随后的应力和过渡的影响将被检查， 这些早期的家庭经历可能会引发 发展过程，减少个人的情绪反应， 随后的家庭问题。 分析将基于5波现有的面板数据， 900名22-26岁的年轻人。 另一波数据收集， 整个样本计划在最终数据后的3年内进行 为现有项目收集。 结果将有助于实现更大的 了解压力体验的机制， 儿童期将个人置于严重和持续的 适应不良，更一般地说，理解 个体倾向与环境刺激之间的相互依赖 在生命历程的重要阶段塑造发展。

DESCRIPTION (Adapted from applicant's abstract): This study seeks to investigate the intervening mechanisms linking childhood adversity with early adult mental health and social functioning, based on secondary analyses of a 10-year longitudinal study which ranges over the adolescent and early adult years. The proposed work will examine the extent to which early experiences compromise adult mental health by disrupting adolescent social relationships and psychological development, and by fostering unsuccessful transitions to and experiences in the major social roles signalling entry into adulthood. The first specific aim involves drawing upon 5 waves of panel data to clearly establish the relationships among early adversities, adolescent mental health and social development, successful entry into early adult roles, and early adult depression. By incorporating several assessments of experiences during the adolescent and early adult years, the proposed study addresses one of the major gaps in knowledge hampering virtually all previous investigations of these mechanisms and improves upon the measures available to investigators in prior studies. Second, the impact of early adversity on the timing, stability and quality of youths' transitions into and experiences in school and work roles, marriage and intimate relationships, and patenting, will be examined. Third, the proposed study will examine alternative specifications of the intervening processes tying early experiences to later life. The role of early childhood adversities in increasing vulnerability to the effects of subsequent stresses and transitions will be examined, as will the possibility that these early family experiences may set in motion developmental processes that reduce individuals' emotional reactivity to subsequent family problems. Analyses will be based upon 5 waves of existing panel data on a sample of 900 young adults aged 22-26. An additional wave of data collection for the entire sample is proposed, scheduled for 3 years following the final data collection for the existing project. Results will contribute to a greater understanding of the mechanisms through which stressful experience in childhood place individuals at risk for serious and persistent maladaptation, and more generally, to an understanding of the interdependence between individual predispositions and environmental stimuli in shaping development over significant periods of the life course.