Citation

Herrenkohl TI, Kosterman R, Mason WA, Hawkins JD, McCarty CA, McCauley E. Dev. Psychopathol. 2010; 22(3): 655-665.

Affiliation

University of Washington, Seattle, USA. tih@u.washington.edu

Copyright

(Copyright © 2010, Cambridge University Press)

DOI

10.1017/S0954579410000349

PMID

20576185

PMCID

PMC2892805

Abstract

This study examined a developmental, cascade model that includes childhood risks of conduct problems and family adversity at age 10-12; conduct problems, risk taking, and internalizing during adolescence; and adult outcomes of conduct problems, poor health, health risks, depression, and service use at ages 27 and 30. Analyses showed that childhood conduct problems predicted adolescent conduct problems and risk taking, which in turn, predicted adult conduct problems, health risks, depression, and service use. Childhood family adversity predicted adolescent internalizing, a predictor itself of poor health, depression, and service use at age 27. There was considerable continuity in the same adult outcomes measured over a 3-year period, as well as some cross-domain prediction from variables at age 27 to measures at age 30. Developmental patterns found in these data offer implications for future research and prevention.

Language: en