Adolescent peer and family precursors of adult psychosocial functioning

描述（由申请人提供）：这种竞争性的延续应用程序检查青少年的同龄人和家庭经验的发展模型作为成年期长期心理社会结果的预测因素。我们建议遵循172个青少年，他们的父母，同龄人和浪漫的合作伙伴从13岁到27岁的多元化社区样本。我们专注于两个阶段，青春期的突出任务，建立自主性和维护和建立社会纽带，并假设这些任务的解决方案将是根本的理解成人的心理社会功能的质量。我们还评估了重要的认知，情感和背景因素，可能会调解从青少年到成人的关系质量的连续性和不连续性，并可能作为干预工作的目标。我们将我们的努力组织成三个主要目标：目标1：成人关系质量的父母和同伴预测：我们开始寻求确定持续到成年早期的青少年关系质量的关键连续性。我们专注于预测成人关系的各个方面，特别是已知与心理和身体健康密切相关的社会孤立和敌意。目标二：从青少年到成年的连续性和不连续性的中介者和调节者：我们接下来研究几个可能中介连续性或解释目标1中确定的不连续性的过程。我们专注于三个具体因素：个人的依恋组织，拒绝敏感性，和主要的发展/上下文的过渡。目标3：早期成人适应性结局：从青少年的直接和中介途径：最后，我们认为，在成年期的内化和外化症状和功能自主的发展，管理自己的职业生涯，财务和住宅需求的能力的预测。我们评估了这15年中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内功能的关系预测因素，但现在试图通过确定已被确定为青春期内重要的社会关系的许多品质中的哪些实际上预测成年后的长期生活结果来扩展和巩固这项研究。因此，它旨在告知：a）父母，教育工作者和与青少年和早期成年人一起工作的临床医生; B）针对养育行为和/或同伴影响的干预措施（例如，青少年犯罪、攻击和药物滥用预防和治疗方案）;以及c）发展社会关系和功能结果之间联系的理论，贯穿生命的这一关键部分。公共卫生相关性：本研究旨在确定青少年与同龄人和父母关系的基本品质，这些品质可以预测成年人心理功能的长期成功或失败。它旨在提供知识，最终减少两种外在症状的发生率（例如，犯罪、攻击、物质滥用）和内化症状（例如，抑郁、焦虑、社会孤立），方法是告知：a）父母、教育工作者和从事青少年和早期成人工作的临床医生; B）针对养育行为和/或同伴影响的干预措施（例如，青少年犯罪、攻击和药物滥用预防和治疗方案）;以及c）发展社会关系和功能结果之间联系的理论，贯穿生命的这一关键部分。

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.