Development of Antisocial Behavior in Early Adulthood

描述（由申请人提供）：本申请是儿童发展项目（CDP）的竞争性延续，旨在对585名男孩和女孩进行纵向研究，以测试慢性反社会行为如何发展的经验模型，这些男孩和女孩从学龄前开始每年进行跟踪，并将在未来五年内年满26岁。自1987年以来，CDP一直由联邦政府持续资助，每年的累计减员率不到1%。样本的背景各不相同（17%是非裔美国人；26%出生在社会经济地位最低的群体；田纳西州纳什维尔、田纳西州诺克斯维尔和印第安纳州布卢明顿三个地理位置），目前21岁的结果也各不相同（36%接受精神疾病治疗；21%被捕；37%休学）。57 CDP出版物支持反社会发展的交易系统模型，该模型整合了生物和社会文化背景因素、儿童和青少年生活事件以及获得性认知情绪反应模式作为中介。CDP的发现包括首次前瞻性论证，即社区样本中早期身体虐待会产生长期不良后果，而社会信息处理模式介导了这些影响。在接下来的五年里，每年将从参与者、同伴、伴侣、后代、观察员和档案记录中收集数据，以评估参与者在与其他成年人（同伴、父母、权威）、伴侣和后代的关系中的参与水平、反社会行为和有能力的亲社会行为。主要创新目的是：1)检验青年反社会行为和认知情绪过程的人际关系领域特异性；2)确定这三个领域的反社会行为预测因子，并对相加模型、交互模型、生活经验中介模型、相互影响模型和领域特定模型的假设进行检验；3)验证了后天的、特定领域的社会信息处理模式在生活经历对反社会结果的影响中起中介作用的假说；4)检验模型在性别、种族和文化群体中的普遍性；5)测试行为和认知-情绪过程的代际传递；6)以解决政策问题的方式分析数据，为预防实践和公共政策做出贡献。这一研究将为反社会发展的基础理论以及预防科学和公共政策做出贡献。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This application for a competing continuation of the Child Development Project (CDP) aims to test an empirical model of how chronic antisocial behavior develops in a longitudinal study of 585 boys and girls who have been followed annually since preschool and who will turn age 26 during the next five years. The CDP has been federally funded continuously since 1987 with cumulative attrition of less than I percent per year. The sample is diverse in background (17% African-American; 26% born in lowest SES groups; 3 geographic sites of Nashville, TN; Knoxville, TN; and Bloomington, IN) and varied in outcomes at the current age of 21 (36% treated for psychiatric disorders; 21% arrested; 37% suspended from school). 57 CDP publications support a transactional systems model of antisocial development that integrates biological and sociocultural context factors, child and adolescent life events, and acquired cognitive-emotional response patterns as mediators. Discoveries from the CDP include the first prospective demonstration that long-term adverse outcomes accrue from early physical maltreatment in a community sample and that social information processing patterns mediate these effects. Data will be collected annually for the next five years from participants, peers, romantic partners, offspring, observers, and archival records, toward the goal of assessing participants' level of participation, antisocial behavior, and competent prosocial behavior in relationships with other adults (peers, parents, authorities), romantic partners, and offspring. Major innovative aims are to: 1) test the interpersonal relationship domain-specificity of antisocial behavior and cognitive-emotional processes in young adulthood; 2) identify predictors of antisocial behavior in these three domains and to test hypotheses of an additive model, an interactive model, a life-experiences mediational model, a reciprocal-influence model, and a domain-specific model; 3) test the hypothesis that acquired, domain-specific social information-processing patterns mediate the effect of life experiences on antisocial outcomes; 4) test the generalizability of models across gender, ethnic, and cultural groups; 5) test the intergenerational transmission of behavior and cognitive-emotional processes; and 6) contribute to prevention practice and public policy by analyzing data in a way that addresses policy questions. This research will contribute both to basic theories of antisocial development and to prevention science and public policy.