General deviance and psychological distress: impact of family support/bonding over 12 years from adolescence to adulthood

Drug problems and psychological distress among a community sample of adults: Predictors, consequences, or confound?

“…Thus, polydrug problems and psychological functioning were relatively stable across the four years. Although past research has found childhood risk factors associated with problematic adult functioning and psychopathology (e.g., Caspi, Elder, & Herbener, 1990;Farrington, Loeber, & VanKammen, 1990;Rutter, Quinton, & Hill, 1990), developmental research should continue to identify other possible etiologies that may account for later adult deviancy based on childhood or adolescent behaviors (Newcomb, 1997b).…”

“…Because there has been a 60% loss of participants, extensive attrition analyses were conducted by Newcomb (1992Newcomb ( , 1997b to determine if the attrition of the participants from 1980 through 1992 was due to any systematic self-selection or other influences. Overall, Newcomb (1992Newcomb ( , 1997a concluded that the loss of participants was not largely due to systematic influences and that there was only a slight differential attrition by gender.…”

The transition from adolescent to adult: a time of change in general and specific deviance

“…A cluster of antisocial attitudes and behaviours has been observed during adolescence and labelled General Deviance (Newcomb and McGee, 1991;McGee and Newcomb, 1992;Newcomb, , 1997a or Problem Behaviour Syndrome (Donovan and Jessor, 1985;Osgood, Johnson, O'Malley, and Bachman, 1988). General Deviance can be thought of as a syndrome, underlying propensity, or latent construct that consists of both attitudinal and behavioural components, including substance use, social conformity, poor school performance, precocious sexual activity, and other norm-violating Prior research has examined predictors of drug use, one component of deviance (Hawkins etal., 1992;Newcomb, , 1997a.…”

“…General Deviance can be thought of as a syndrome, underlying propensity, or latent construct that consists of both attitudinal and behavioural components, including substance use, social conformity, poor school performance, precocious sexual activity, and other norm-violating Prior research has examined predictors of drug use, one component of deviance (Hawkins etal., 1992;Newcomb, , 1997a. However, few studies have examined predictors of General Deviance (see Newcomb and McGee, 1991 for an example).…”

“…The transition from adolescence to adulthood is marked by major changes in attitudes and behaviours (Newcomb, 1997a;Newcomb and Bentler, 1988). Of particular importance are changes in antisocial, deviant behaviours and attitudes.…”