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组高危青少年 母亲进入成年期，也将跟随她们的孩子到11岁，到 青少年母亲吸毒行为的变化和排序图表 从青春期到成年早期，并提高我们对 风险的代际传递给他们的孩子。研究与实践 怀孕和育儿的青少年主要关注母性教育。 和经济结果，而人们对这些人的行为和质量知之甚少 年轻母亲成年后的生活，包括她们的 对药物使用的脆弱性。此外，青少年养育子女和吸毒可能 对青春期母亲的孩子的发育构成风险。 这些风险的性质以及通过哪些机制 风险发生的代际传递也不是很好 已澄清。大多数研究都集中在青春期母亲和她们的 婴儿出生后的早期几年。拟议的研究提供了一个 追随一群基本完好无损的年轻女性和 他们的孩子从少女怀孕到成年早期。我们现有的数据 来自对怀孕至6年间母亲的11次采访 产后；母子互动的录像带，当 孩子们都是6岁；由儿童基金会填写的行为清单 儿童幼儿园教师。在这一系列活动中，我们将进行 三次年度母亲访谈；三次教师对孩子行为的评估 和学业进步；在孩子11岁时进行儿童面谈；以及 录下来的母子互动，当孩子11岁的时候。到目前为止， 我们保留了241名年轻母亲原始样本的98%，我们 预计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 ，并探索这些变化的相关性，在现有的 青春期生育的年轻母亲样本，(2)测试原始 以及推理行为预测成人药物的能力的扩展理论 在这些年轻母亲中使用，以及(3)检验代际模型 传播儿童反社会行为的风险，包括吸毒 意图。

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.