Jaffee Sara R
Institute of Psychiatry, King's College, London.
J Fam Psychol. 2002 Mar;16(1):38-49. doi: 10.1037//0893-3200.16.1.38.
Women who give birth as teens differ from those who delay childbearing before and after a birth. These preexisting differences may account for the adverse outcomes faced by early childbearers in young adulthood. This study tested whether a history of conduct disorder, low IQ and educational attainment, and low childhood socioeconomic status accounted for poor psychosocial adjustment at age 26 among early childbearers. Study members were 482 women in a birth cohort, 26% of whom had given birth by age 26 in 1999. Findings supported the hypothesis that individual and family background factors partially accounted for the adverse socioeconomic, mental health, and interpersonal outcomes faced by young mothers. However, early childbearing exacerbated the difficulties associated with these risk factors.
青少年生育的女性与那些推迟生育的女性在生育前后存在差异。这些先前就存在的差异可能是导致早育女性在成年早期面临不良后果的原因。本研究检验了品行障碍史、低智商和教育程度以及儿童期社会经济地位低是否是早育女性在26岁时心理社会适应不良的原因。研究对象是一个出生队列中的482名女性，其中26%的人在1999年26岁前生育。研究结果支持了这样的假设，即个人和家庭背景因素部分解释了年轻母亲所面临的不良社会经济、心理健康和人际关系方面的后果。然而，早育加剧了与这些风险因素相关的困难。
