PATHWAYS FROM CHILDHOOD ADVERSITY TO ADULT MENTAL HEALTH

描述(摘自申请者的摘要)：这项研究旨在 调查儿童期逆境与疾病之间的干预机制 早期成人心理健康和社会功能，基于二次 一项为期10年的青少年纵向研究结果分析 以及成年早期。拟议的工作将审查以下方面的程度 早期经历会扰乱青少年的心理健康，从而损害成年人的心理健康 社会关系和心理发展，并通过培养 向主要社会角色的不成功过渡和经历 发出进入成年期的信号。第一个具体目标涉及绘画 在5波面板数据上清楚地建立了 早期逆境、青少年心理健康和社会发展， 成功地进入成人早期角色，以及成人早期抑郁。通过 结合了对青少年和青少年时期经历的几项评估 在成年初期，这项拟议的研究解决了 知识阻碍了几乎所有以前对这些问题的调查 机制，并改进#年可供调查人员使用的措施 先前的研究。第二，早期逆境对时机的影响， 青少年升学和就学经历的稳定性和质量 工作角色，婚姻和亲密关系，以及专利，将是 检查过了。第三，拟议的研究将审查替代规范 将早期经历与后来的生活联系在一起的中间过程。这个 儿童早期逆境在增加儿童对 将研究后续应力和过渡的影响，以及 这些早期的家庭经历可能会引发 降低个体情绪反应性的发育过程 随后的家庭问题。 分析将基于以下样本的5波现有面板数据 900名年龄在22-26岁之间的年轻人。一波又一波的数据收集 整个样本是建议的，计划在最终数据之后3年内进行 集合，用于现有项目。结果将有助于更大的 对应激体验的作用机制的理解 童年使个人面临严重和顽固的风险 适应不良，更广泛地说，是为了理解 个体倾向与环境刺激的相互依存性 在塑造生命过程中重要时期的发展方面。

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.