Do Specific Transitional Patterns of Antisocial Behavior during Adolescence Increase Risk for Problems in Young Adulthood?

Abstract

Latent transition analysis was used to identify patterns and trajectories of antisocial behavior (ASB) and their association with young adult outcomes in a nationally representative sample of adolescents (N = 5,422; 53.9% female). Participants were on average 13.96 years of age (SD= 1.06) at wave 1 of the study. Latent class analysis identified four classes of ASB including a non-ASB class, an aggressive class, a petty theft class, and a serious ASB class. In general, youth who were classified as serious stable ASB were the most at risk for problematic functioning in young adulthood. Youth who escalated to more serious patterns of ASB or reduced involvement also were at greater risk of negative outcomes in young adulthood compared to stable non-ASB youth, although they generally fared better than youth involved in stable patterns of more serious ASB. Gender differences indicated that involvement in ASB was a greater risk factor for alcohol use among boys and a greater risk factor for depression among girls in young adulthood. Results are discussed in terms of the predictive validity of classes of ASB to functioning in young adulthood and the implications of this research for prevention efforts.

The Association between Early Life Mental Health and Alcohol Use Behaviours in Adulthood: A Systematic Review

“…Fifteen of the 36 articles were rated as high quality due to their large sample size, representativeness of the population, inclusion of core confounding factors and advanced principles to deal with missing data [21,24,[46][47][48]51,54,56,58,60,62,63,66,67,74]. By comparison, 21 of the 36 studies were rated as poor quality due to their failure to control for potential confounding factors, small sample sizes, and improper strategies for missing data (mainly complete case analysis) [23,49,50,52,53,55,57,59,61,64,65,[68][69][70][71]73,[75][76][77][78].…”

“…This resulted in 26 articles on the internalising domain (INT: n = 9, depression: n = 13, anxiety: n = 8) and 23 articles on the externalising domain. With regard to alcohol use behaviours, the distribution was as following (more details in S1 Text): alcohol consumption (n = 9) [21,50,53,57,59,66,68,69,72], heavy/problematic drinking (n = 22) [21,23,[46][47][48][49]51,52,55,56,58,[60][61][62]65,68,[70][71][72][73]77,78] and AUD (n = 8) [24,54,63,64,67,74,75,87].…”

“…Six (16.2%) tests reported positive associations, one test found negative association, and the rest reported no association. 42 tests in 13 articles examined heavy/problematic drinking as an outcome [21,23,47,51,52,55,56,61,68,71,73,77,78], and 22 (52.4%) tests reported positive associations. For AUD, 24 tests in seven articles [24,63,64,74,88,89] were extracted, and nine (37.5%) tests reported positive associations.…”

Les problèmes de comportement à l’enfance et les problèmes dépressifs : rôle médiateur du rejet social, des interactions parent-enfant et des difficultés scolaires

“…Cette prévalence, particulièrement à l'adolescence, est deux à trois fois plus élevée chez les filles que chez les garçons (Ingoldsby et al, 2006;Zahn-Waxler et al 2006). Chez les enfants présentant des problèmes de comportement, le risque de développer des problèmes dépressifs est aussi plus grand pour les filles (Cook, Pflieger, Connell et Connell, 2015;Stringaris, Lewis et Maughan, 2014;Zahn-Waxler et al, 2008) et celles-ci risquent de présenter une dépression plus sévère et plus persistante que les garçons (Keenan et Hipwell, 2005). Les enfants ayant à la fois des problèmes de comportement et des problèmes dépressifs répondent moins bien aux interventions et sont particulièrement à risque de développer des difficultés d'adaptation importantes (p. ex.…”

Participation in organized leisure-time activities and risk behaviors in Czech adolescents

“…These health-compromising behaviors are often established in adolescence and persist into adulthood (Cook et al 2015). …”