Patterns of problem behavior in relation to thriving and precocious behavior in late adolescence

Journal of Youth and Adolescence

Volumn 37, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 627-640

  Campa, Mary I ^a   Bradshaw, Catherine P ^b   Eckenrode, John ^a   Zielinski, David S ^c  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Precocious behavior; Problem behavior trajectories; Thriving behavior

Indexed keywords

EID: 43749098298     PISSN: 00472891     EISSN: 15736601     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10964-007-9235-x     Document Type: Article

References (68)

1. Achenbach, T. M. (1991a). Manual for the child behavior checklist/4-18 and1991 profile. Burlington: University of VT, Department of Psychiatry.
2. Achenbach, T. M. (1991b). Manual for the youth self-report and 1991profile. Burlington: Department of Psychiatry, University of VT.
3. Arnett, J. J. (2000). Emerging adulthood: A theory of development from the late teens through the twenties. American Psychologist, 55, 469-480.
4. Ary, D. V., Duncan, T. E., Biglan, A., Metzler, C. W., Noell, J. W., & Smolkowski, K. (1999). A developmental model of adolescent problem behavior. Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 27, 141-150.
5. Benson, P. L., Leffert, N., Scales, P. C., & Blyth, D. A. (1998). Beyond the "village" rhetoric: Creating healthy communities for children and adolescents. Applied Developmental Science, 2(3), 138-159.
6. Bozick, R. (2006). Precocious behaviors in early adolescence: Employment and transition to first sexual intercourse. Journal of Early Adolescence, 26, 60-86.
7. Bradley, R. H., & Caldwell, B. M. (1984). Home observation for measure of the environment. Little Rock: University of Arkansas at Little Rock.
8. Bradshaw, C. P., Brown, J. S., & Hamilton, S. F. (2006). Applying positive youth development and life-course research to the treatment of adolescents involved with the judicial system. Journal of Addictions and Offender Counseling, 27(1), 2-16.
9. Chung, I., Hawkins, J., Gilchrist, L., Hill, K., & Nagin, D. (2002). Identifying and predicting offending trajectories among poor children. Social Service Review, 76, 663-685.
10. Cohen, P., Kasen, S., Cehn, H., Hartmark, C., & Gordon, K. (2003). Variations in patterns of developmental transitions in the emerging adulthood period. Developmental Psychology, 39(4), 657-669.
11. Crick, N. R. (1997). Engagement in gender normative versus nonnormative forms of aggression: Links to social-psychological adjustment. Developmental Psychology, 33(4), 610-617.
12. Day, J., & Newberger, E. (2002). The big payoff: Educational attainment and synthetic estimates of work-life earnings. Current population reports. Washington: U. S. Census Bureau.
13. Donovan, J. E., & Jessor, R. (1985). Structure of problem behavior in adolescence and young adulthood. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 53, 890-904.
14. Eccles, J., & Gootman, J. A. (2002). Community programs to promote youth development. Washington: National Academy Press.
15. Eckenrode, J., Zielinski, D., Smith, E., Marcynyszyn, L. A., Henderson, C. R., Kitzman, H., et al. (2001). Child maltreatment and the early onset of problem behaviors: Can a program of nurse home visitation break the link? Development and Psychopathology, 13(4), 873-890.
16. Fergusson, D. M., Lynskey, M. T., & Horwood, J. (1996). Factors associated with continuity and changes in disruptive behavior patters between childhood and adolescence. Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 24, 533-554.
17. Franks, P., Gold, M. R., & Fiscella, K. (2003). Sociodemographics, self-rated health, and mortality in the U.S. Social Science & Medicine, 56, 2505-2514.
18. Gerard, J. M., & Buehler, C. (2004). Cumulative environmental risk and youth problem behavior. Journal of Marriage and Family, 66(3), 702-720.
19. Gilchrist, L. D., Gillmore, M. R., & Lohr, M. J. (1990). Drug use among pregnant adolescents. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 58(4), 402-407.
20. Hamilton, S. F., & Hamilton, M. A. (2006). School, work, and emerging adulthood. In J. J. Arnett & J. L. Tanner (Eds.), Emerging adults in America: Coming of age in the 21st century (pp. 257-277). Washington: American Psychological Association.
21. Hamilton, S. F., Hamilton, M. A., & Pittman, K. (2004). Principles for youth development. In S. F. Hamilton & M. A. Hamilton (Eds.), The youth development handbook: Coming of age in American communities (pp. 3-22). Thousand Oaks: Sage.
22. Herrera, V. M., & McCloskey, L. A. (2001). Gender differences in the risk for delinquency among youth exposed to family violence. Child Abuse and Neglect, 25, 1037-1051.
23. Hipwell, A. E., Loeber, R., Stouthamer-Loeber, M., Keenan, K., White, H. R., & Kroneman, L. (2002). Characteristics of girls with early onset disruptive and antisocial behaviour. Criminal Behaviour and Mental Health, 12, 99-118.
24. Hollingshead, A. (1976). Four factor index of social status. Unpublished manuscript, Yale University Social Sciences Library, New Haven.
25. Jessor, R., Van Den Bos, J., Vanderryn, J., Costa, F., & Turbin, M. (1995). Protective factors in adolescent problem behavior: Moderator effects and developmental change. Developmental Psychology, 31, 923-933.
26. Johnson, D. S. (2000). Economic and social conditions of children and the elderly. Monthly Labor Review, 123(4), 19-25.
27. Kessler, R. C. (1990-1992). National survey of health and stress. Unpublished document, University of Michigan.
28. King, P. E., Dowling, E. M., Meuller, R. A., White, K., Schultz, W., Osborn, P., et al. (2005). Thriving in adolescence: The voices of youth-serving practitioners, parents, and early and later adolescents. Journal of Early Adolescence, 25(1), 94-112.
29. King, P. E., Schultz, W., Meuller, R. A., Dowling, E. M., Osborn, P., Dickerson, E., et al. (2005). Positive youth development: Is there a nomological network of concepts used in the adolescent developmental literature. Applied Developmental Science, 9(4), 216-228.
30. Laub, J. H., & Sampson, R. J. (2001). Understanding desistance from crime. In M. Tonry (Ed.), Crime and justice: An annual review of research (Vol. 26, pp. 1-69). Chicago: University of Chicago.
31. Laub, J. H., Nagin, D. S., & Sampson, R. J. (1998). Trajectories of change in criminal offending: Good marriages and the desistance process. American Sociological Review, 63, 225-238.
32. Lipsey, M., & Wilson, D. (1998). Effective intervention for serious juvenile offenders: A synthesis of research. In R. Loeber & D. Farrington (Eds.), Serious & violent juvenile offenders: Risk factors and successful interventions (pp. 313-345). Thousand Oaks: Sage.
33. Loeber, R., Farrington, D. P., Stouthamer-Loeber, M., Moffitt, T. E., Caspi, A., & Lynam, D. (2001). Male mental health problems, psychopathy, and personality traits: Key findings from the first 14 years of the Pittsburgh Youth Study. Clinical Child and Family Psychology Review, 4, 273-297.
34. Loeber, R., Kennan, K., & Zhang, Q. (1997). Boys' experimentation and persistence in developmental pathways toward serious delinquency. Journal of Child and Family Studies, 6, 321-357.
35. Masten, A. S., Hubbard, J. J., Gest, S. D., Tellegen, A., Garmezy, N., & Ramirez, M. (1999). Competence in the context of adversity: Pathways to resilience and maladaptation from childhood to late adolescence. Development and Psychopathology, 11, 143-169.
36. McDevitt, S., & Carey, W. (1978). The measurement of temperament in 3-7 year old children. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 19, 245-253.
37. Miech, R. A., & Shanahan, M. J. (2000). Socioeconomic status and depression over the life course. Journal of Health and Social Behavior, 41, 162-176.
38. Moffitt, T. E. (1993). Adolescence-limited and life-course persistent antisocial behavior: A developmental taxonomy. Psychological Review, 100, 674-701.
39. Moffitt, T. E. (2006). Life-course-persistent versus adolescent-limited antisocial behavior. In D. Cicchetti & D. Cohen (Eds.), Developmental psychopathology (2nd ed., Vol. 1, pp. 570-598). Hoboken: John Wiley & Sons.
40. Moffitt, T. E., & Caspi, A. (2001). Childhood predictors differentiate life-course persistent and adolescence-limited antisocial pathways among males and females. Development and Psychopathology, 13, 355-375.
41. Moffitt, T. E., Caspi, A., Dickson, N., Silva, P., & Stanton, W. (1996). Childhood-onset versus adolescent-onset antisocial conduct problems in males: Natural history from ages 3 to 18 years. Development and Psychopathology, 8, 399-424.
42. Moffitt, T. E., Caspi, A., Harrington, H., & Milne, B. J. (2002). Males on the life-course-persistent and adolescence-limited antisocial pathways: Follow-up at age 26 years. Development and Psychopathology, 14, 179-207.
43. Muthén, B. (2004). Latent variable analysis: Growth Mixture Modeling and related techniques for longitudinal data. In D. Kaplan (Eds.), The Sage handbook of quantitative methodology for the social sciences (pp. 345-368). Thousand Oaks: Sage.
44. Nagin, D. S. (1999). Analyzing developmental trajectories: A semiparametric group-based approach. Psychological Methods, 4(2), 139-157.
45. Nagin, D., & Paternoster, R. (1991). On the relationship of past and future participation in delinquency. Criminology, 29, 111-139.
46. Nagin, D., & Tremblay, R. E. (1999). Trajectories of boys' physical aggression, opposition, and hyperactivity on the path to physically violent and nonviolent juvenile delinquency. Child Development, 70(5), 1181-1196.
47. Nagin, D., Pagani, L., Tremblay, R., & Vitaro, F. (2003). Life course turning points: The effect of grade retention on physical aggression. Development and Psychopathology, 15(2), 343-361.
48. Olds, D. L., Eckenrode, J., Henderson, C. R., Kitzman, H., Powers, J., Cole, R., et al. (1997). Long term effects of home visitation on maternal life course and child abuse and neglect: Fifteen-year follow-up of a randomized trial. JAMA, 278, 637-643.
49. Olds, D. L., Henderson, C. R., Kitzman, H. (1994). Does the prenatal and infancy home visitation have enduring effects on qualities of parental change and child health at 25 to 50 months of life? Pediatrics, 93, 89-98.
50. Piquero, A. R., Farrington, D. P., & Blumstein, A. (Eds.). (2003). The criminal career paradigm: Background and recent developments (Vol. 30). Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
51. Putallaz, M., & Bierman, K. L. (2004). Aggression, antisocial behavior, and violence among girls: A developmental perspective. New York: Guilford.
52. Radloff, L. S. (1977). The CES-D scale: A self-report depression scale for research in the general population. Applied Psychological Measurement, 1, 385-401.
53. Raine, A., Moffitt, T., Caspi, A., Loeber, R., Stouthamer-Loeber, M., & Lynam, D. (2005). Neurocognitive impairments in boys on the life-course persistent antisocial path. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 114(1), 38-49.
54. Rohner, R. P. (1986). The warmth dimensions: Foundation of parental acceptance-rejection theory. Beverley Hills: Sage.
55. Rosenthal, D. (1963). A suggested conceptual framework. In D. Rosenthal (Ed.), The Genian quadruplets (pp. 505-516). New York: Basic Books.
56. Roth, J. L., & Brooks-Gunn, J. (2003). What exactly is a youth development program? Answers from research and practice. Applied Developmental Science, 7(2), 94-111.
57. Rumberger, R. W., & Lamb, S. P. (2003). The early employment and further education experiences of high school dropouts: A comparative study of the United States and Australia. Economics of Education Review, 22, 353-366.
58. Rutter, M. (1989). Pathways from childhood to adult life. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 30, 23-51.
59. Rutter, M., Giller, H., & Hagell, A. (1998). Antisocial behavior by young people. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
60. Sampson, R. J., & Laub, J. H. (1993). Crime in the making: Pathways and turning-points through life. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
61. Sampson, R. J., & Laub, J. H. (1996). Socioeconomic achievement in the life course of disadvantaged men: Military service as a turning-point, circa 1940-1965. American Sociological Review, 61, 347-367.
62. Scales, P., & Leffert, N. (1999). Developmental assets: A synthesis of the scientific research on adolescent development. Minneapolis: Search Institute.
63. Schaeffer, C. M., Petras, H., Ialongo, N., Masyn, K.E., Hubbard, S., Poduska, J., & Kellam, S. (2006). A comparison of girls' and boys' aggressive-disruptive behavior trajectories across elementary school: Prediction to young adult antisocial outcomes. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 74, 500-510.
64. Taylor, J., Iacono, W. G., & McGue, M. (2000). Evidence for a genetic etiology of early-onset delinquency. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 109(4), 634-643.
65. Theokas, C., & Lerner, R. M. (2006). Observed ecological assets in families, schools, and neighborhoods: Conceptualization, measurement, and relations with positive and negative developmental outcomes. Applied Developmental Science, 10(2), 61-74.
66. Thomas, D. L., & Carver, C. (1990). Religion and adolescent social competence. In T. P. Gulotta, G. R., Adams, & R., Montemayor (Eds.), Advances in adolescent development: Developing social competency in adolescence (Vol. 3, pp. 195-219). Newbury Park: Sage.
67. Wickrama, K. A. S., Merten, M. J., & Elder, G. H. (2005). Community influences on precocious transitions to adulthood: Racial differences and mental health consequences. Journal of Community Psychology, 33(6), 639-653.
68. Woodward, L. J., & Fergusson, D.M. (1999). Early conduct problems and later risk of teenage pregnancy in girls. Development and Psychopathology, 11, 127-141.