Development of Antisocial Behavior in Early Adulthood

描述(由申请人提供)：儿童发展项目(CDP)的竞争性延续申请旨在对585名从学龄前开始每年接受跟踪并将在未来五年内年满26岁的男孩和女孩进行纵向研究，以测试慢性反社会行为是如何发展的经验模型。CDP自1987年以来一直由联邦政府资助，每年的累计自然减员不到1%。样本的背景是不同的(17%的非裔美国人；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鲁明顿的3个地理地点)，以及在当前21岁时的不同结果(36%接受精神障碍治疗；21%被捕；37%休学)。57个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后天认知-情绪反应模式作为中介。来自CDP的发现包括第一个前瞻性的证明，即社区样本中早期的身体虐待会产生长期的不良后果，并且社会信息处理模式调节这些影响。在接下来的五年里，将每年从参与者、同龄人、浪漫伴侣、子女、观察者和档案记录中收集数据，以评估参与者在与其他成年人(同龄人、父母、当局)、浪漫伴侣和子女的关系中的参与程度、反社会行为和胜任的亲社会行为。主要的创新目标是：1)测试青少年反社会行为和认知-情绪过程的人际关系领域特异性；2)确定这三个领域反社会行为的预测因子，并检验加性模型、交互模型、生活经验中介模型、交互影响模型和领域特定模型的假设；3)检验获得性、特定领域的社会信息加工模式中介生活经验对反社会结果影响的假设；4)测试模型跨性别、种族和文化群体的泛化能力；5)测试行为和认知-情绪过程的代际传递；6)通过以处理政策问题的方式分析数据，为预防实践和公共政策作出贡献。这一研究将对反社会发展的基础理论、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.