TEEN MOTHERS INTO ADULTHOOD AND THE NEXT GENERATION

描述：（申请人摘要） 拟议的继续研究将跟踪一个高危青少年队列， 母亲进入成年，也将跟随他们的孩子到11岁， 绘制青少年母亲吸毒的变化和顺序 从青春期到成年早期，并提高我们对 将风险代代相传。研究 怀孕和养育青少年主要集中在母亲的教育 和经济成果，而很少有人知道的行为和质量， 年轻母亲成年后的生活， 吸毒的脆弱性。此外，青少年父母和吸毒可能 对未成年母亲的子女的发育构成风险。 这些风险的性质和机制， 风险代际传递发生也一直不好 阐明。大多数研究都集中在青少年母亲和他们的 婴儿在出生后的最初几年。这项研究提供了一个 一个独特的机会来跟踪一个基本上完整的年轻女性群体， 他们的孩子从少女怀孕到成年。我们现有的数据 来自11次对母亲的采访，从怀孕到6年， 产后;母亲与孩子互动的录像， 儿童6岁;和行为清单完成的 幼儿园教师。在接下来的节目中，我们将进行 三次年度母亲访谈;三次教师对儿童行为的评估 和学校的进步;当孩子11岁时，进行一次儿童访谈;以及 当孩子11岁的时候，到目前为止， 我们保留了241名年轻母亲中98%的原始样本， 预期在拟议的继续研究中取得类似的成功。 拟议的研究旨在（1）描述变化和排序 药物参与，并探讨这些变化的相关性，在现有的 样本的年轻母亲谁生了青少年，（2）测试原来的 以及一个扩展的理性行为理论， 在这些年轻母亲中使用，（3）测试代际模型 传播儿童反社会行为的风险，包括吸毒 intentions.

DESCRIPTION: (Applicant's Abstract) The proposed continuation study will follow a cohort of high-risk adolescent mothers into adulthood, and will also follow their children to age 11, to chart the changes and sequencing of adolescent mothers' drug involvement from adolescence to early adulthood, and to improve our understanding of the intergenerational transmission of risk to their children. Research on pregnant and parenting teenagers has focused primarily on maternal education and economic outcomes, and little is known about the behavior and quality of life for young mothers as they reach adulthood, including their vulnerability to drug use. Moreover, adolescent parenting and drug use may pose a risk for the development of the children of adolescent mothers. The nature of these risks and the mechanisms through which the intergenerational transmission of risk occurs have also not been well elucidated. Most studies have focused on adolescent mothers and their infants in the early years following the birth. The proposed study offers a unique opportunity to follow a largely intact cohort of young women and their children from teenage pregnancy to early adulthood. Our extant data come from 11 interviews with the mothers from pregnancy through 6 years post-partum; a videotaped mother-child interaction, obtained when the children were 6 years old; and a behavior checklist completed by the children's kindergarten teachers. In this continuation, we will conduct three annual mother interviews; three teacher assessments of child behavior and school progress; a child interview, when the child is 11 years old; and a taped mother-child interaction, when the child is 11 years old. To date, we have retained 98% of our original sample of 241 young mothers and we expect to have comparable success in the proposed continuation study. The proposed study is designed to ( 1) describe the changes and sequencing of drug involvement, and explore correlates of these changes, in an existing sample of young mothers who gave birth as teenagers, (2) test the original and an expanded theory of reasoned action's ability to predict adult drug use among these young mothers, and (3) test a model of intergenerational transmission of risk for child antisocial behaviors, including drug use intentions.