Adolescent peer and family precursors of adult psychosocial functioning

青少年同龄人和家庭是成人心理社会功能的先兆

• 批准号: 7462715
• 负责人: JOSEPH Patrick ALLEN
• 金额: $ 53.15万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2008
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2008-07-10 至 2013-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7462715
• 关键词: Accounting; Address; Adolescence; Adolescent; Adolescent Development; Adult; Affective; Age; Aggressive behavior; Anxiety; Behavior; Cognitive; Communities; Data; Depth; Development; Distal; Failure; Family; Future; Health; Hostility; Incidence; Individual; Intervention; Interview; Knowledge; Life; Link; Longevity; Mediating; Mediator of activation protein; Mental Depression; Mental Health; Methods; Modeling; Outcome; Parenting behavior; Parents; Pathway interactions; Pattern; Peer Group; Prevention; Process; Psyche structure; Public Health; Reporter; Research; Resolution; Sampling; Social Development; Social Interaction; Social isolation; Socialization; Staging; Substance abuse problem; Symptoms; Teenagers; Time; Work; career; contextual factors; design; experience; functional outcomes; interest; peer; peer influence; psychologic; psychosocial; social; social attachment; success; teenage parents; theories; treatment program; young adult

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This competing continuation application examines a developmental model of adolescents' peer and family experiences as predictors of long-term psychosocial outcomes in adulthood. We propose to follow a diverse community sample of 172 adolescents, their parents, peers, and romantic partners from ages 13 to 27. We focus upon two stage-salient tasks of adolescence establishing autonomy and maintaining and building social bonds and hypothesize that the resolution of these tasks will be fundamental to understanding qualities of adult psychosocial functioning. We also assess important cognitive, affective, and contextual factors that may mediate continuities and discontinuities from adolescent to adult relationship quality and that may potentially serve as targets for intervention efforts. We organize our efforts into three primary Aims: Aim 1: Parent and Peer Predictors of Adult Relationship Quality: We begin by seeking to identify critical continuities in adolescent relationship qualities that persist into early adulthood. We focus upon predictors of aspects of adult relationships particularly social isolation and hostility known to be closely linked to both mental and physical health. Aim 2: Mediators & Moderators of Continuities and Discontinuities from Adolescence to Adulthood: We next examine several processes that potentially mediate the continuities or account for the discontinuities identified in Aim 1. We focus on three specific factors: the individual's attachment organization, rejection sensitivity, and major developmental/contextual transitions. Aim 3: Early Adult Adaptational Outcomes: Direct & Mediated Pathways from Adolescence: Finally, we consider adolescent-era predictors of internalizing and externalizing symptoms in adulthood and of the development of functional autonomy the capacity to manage one's own career, financial, and residential needs. We assess both direct predictions from adolescent relationship qualities across this fifteen-year span, as well as predictions mediated via adult relationship qualities (Aim 1) and intervening factors (Aim 2). This study builds on the vast body of research that has examined relational predictors of functioning within adolescence but now seeks to extend and ground this research by determining which of the many qualities of social relationships that have been identified as important within adolescence are actually predictive of long-term, life outcomes in adulthood. As such, it seeks to inform: a) parents, educators, and clinicians working with adolescents and early adults; b) interventions targeting parenting behaviors and/or peer influences (e.g., delinquency, aggression, and substance abuse prevention and treatment programs); and c) developing theories of the links between social relationships and functional outcomes across this critical portion of the lifespan. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: This study seeks to identify essential qualities of adolescents' relationships with peers and parents that predict long-term success or failure in adult psychological functioning. It is designed to provide knowledge that will ultimately reduce the incidence of both externalizing symptoms (e.g., delinquency, aggression, substance abuse) and internalizing symptoms (e.g., depression, anxiety, social isolation) in late adolescence and early adulthood by informing: a) parents, educators, and clinicians working with adolescents and early adults; b) interventions targeting parenting behaviors and/or peer influences (e.g., delinquency, aggression, and substance abuse prevention and treatment programs); and c) developing theories of the links between social relationships and functional outcomes across this critical portion of the lifespan.

描述（由申请人提供）：这个竞争性的继续申请研究了青少年同伴和家庭经历作为成年期长期社会心理结果预测因素的发展模型。我们建议跟踪一个不同的社区样本，包括172名青少年，他们的父母，同龄人和恋人，年龄从13岁到27岁。我们将重点放在青少年建立自主性和维持和建立社会关系的两个阶段突出任务上，并假设这些任务的解决将是理解成人社会心理功能质量的基础。我们还评估了重要的认知、情感和背景因素，这些因素可能介导从青少年到成人关系质量的连续性和非连续性，并可能作为干预努力的目标。我们将我们的努力分为三个主要目标：目标1：成人关系质量的父母和同伴预测因素：我们首先寻求确定青春期关系质量中持续到成年早期的关键连续性。我们将重点放在成人关系方面的预测因素上，特别是已知与身心健康密切相关的社会孤立和敌意。目标2：从青春期到成年的连续性和不连续的中介和调节者：接下来，我们将研究几个可能中介连续性或解释目标1中确定的不连续的过程。我们关注三个具体因素：个体的依恋组织、拒绝敏感性和主要的发展/环境转变。目标3：早期成人适应结果：青春期的直接和介导途径：最后，我们考虑了青春期时期的内在化和外在化症状的预测因素，以及成年期功能自主发展的预测因素，即管理自己的职业、财务和居住需求的能力。我们评估了这15年间青少年关系质量的直接预测，以及通过成人关系质量（目标1）和干预因素（目标2）介导的预测。这项研究建立在大量研究的基础上，这些研究已经检查了青春期功能的关系预测因素，但现在试图通过确定在青春期被认为重要的社会关系的许多品质中，哪些品质实际上可以预测成年期的长期生活结果，从而扩展和奠定这项研究的基础。因此，它试图告知：a)与青少年和早期成人一起工作的父母、教育工作者和临床医生；B)针对父母行为和/或同伴影响的干预措施（例如，犯罪、攻击和药物滥用预防和治疗方案）；c)发展社会关系与生命中这一关键阶段的功能结果之间联系的理论。公共卫生相关性：本研究旨在确定青少年与同伴和父母关系的基本品质，这些品质可以预测成人心理功能的长期成功或失败。它的目的是提供知识，最终减少青少年晚期和成年早期的外化症状（如犯罪、攻击、药物滥用）和内化症状（如抑郁、焦虑、社会孤立）的发生率：a)父母、教育工作者和与青少年和早期成人一起工作的临床医生；B)针对父母行为和/或同伴影响的干预措施（例如，犯罪、攻击和药物滥用预防和治疗方案）；c)发展社会关系与生命中这一关键阶段的功能结果之间联系的理论。