Farrell A D, Danish S J, Howard C W
Virginia Commonwealth University, Department of Psychology, Richmond 23284-2018.
J Consult Clin Psychol. 1992 Oct;60(5):705-12. doi: 10.1037//0022-006x.60.5.705.
This study tested the generality of Jessor and Jessor's (1977) problem behavior theory, which states that a variety of problem behaviors constitute a behavioral syndrome in normal adolescents. Relationships among 5 adolescent problem behaviors (cigarette use, alcohol use, marijuana use, delinquency, and sexual intercourse) were examined in 7th-grade boys (n = 556) and girls (n = 715), and 9th-grade boys (n = 481) and girls (n = 485) in an urban school system in which the majority of students were African American and from low-income families. Measures of problem behavior frequency were positively correlated with each other and negatively correlated with several measures of conventional behavior. Confirmatory factor analyses replicated findings of previous studies that a single common factor underlies adolescent problem behaviors.
本研究检验了杰索尔和杰索尔（1977）的问题行为理论的普遍性，该理论认为，在正常青少年中，多种问题行为构成一种行为综合征。在一个城市学校系统中，对七年级男生（n = 556）和女生（n = 715）以及九年级男生（n = 481）和女生（n = 485）的5种青少年问题行为（吸烟、饮酒、吸食大麻、犯罪和性交）之间的关系进行了研究，该学校系统中的大多数学生是非裔美国人且来自低收入家庭。问题行为频率的测量指标之间呈正相关，且与一些传统行为的测量指标呈负相关。验证性因素分析重复了先前研究的结果，即青少年问题行为背后存在一个单一的共同因素。
