Aseltine R H, Gore S, Gordon J
Department of Sociology, Boston University, MA 02215, USA.
J Health Soc Behav. 2000 Sep;41(3):256-75.
General strain theory (Agnew 1992) departs from traditional strain theories by emphasizing the role of the individual's affective responses to negative life experiences in fostering deviant behavior. In this analysis, we examine the central hypotheses of general strain theory using data from a three-wave panel study of high school youths in the Boston metropolitan area (N = 939). Covariance structure models reveal that anger and hostility in response to negative life events do play a causal role in fostering more aggressive forms of delinquency, but are not significantly related to either nonaggressive delinquency or marijuana use. Furthermore, the conditional effects predicted by general strain theory, in which the impact of strain on delinquency varies by youths' personal and social resources, are inconsistent. Discussion centers on the prospect of increasing the utility of general strain theory by further imbuing it with concepts and perspectives from the sociology of mental illness.
一般应激理论（阿格纽，1992年）与传统应激理论不同，它强调个体对负面生活经历的情感反应在助长越轨行为方面的作用。在本分析中，我们使用来自波士顿大都市区高中生的三波面板研究数据（N = 939）来检验一般应激理论的核心假设。协方差结构模型显示，对负面生活事件的愤怒和敌意确实在助长更具攻击性的犯罪形式中起因果作用，但与非攻击性犯罪或大麻使用均无显著关联。此外，一般应激理论所预测的条件效应，即应激对犯罪的影响因青少年的个人和社会资源而异，并不一致。讨论集中在通过进一步融入精神疾病社会学的概念和观点来提高一般应激理论效用的前景上。
