Barnett Tracey E, Rowley Stephanie, Zimmerman Marc A, Vansadia Preeti, Caldwell Cleopatra Howard
Department of Behavioral Science and Community Health, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida.
J Community Psychol. 2011 Apr;39(3):303-315. doi: 10.1002/jcop.20434.
Few studies have examined the effects of household change on adolescent development. We study household composition change and its effect on development, as measured by both internalizing symptoms and externalizing behaviors, in a sample of urban African American adolescents. Household change was defined based on the movement in or out of the household of one of the two most important adults adolescents named. We found 25% of adolescents reported changes in their household composition over the four years of high school. Youth who experienced change reported more internalizing symptoms and externalizing behavior than youth who did not experience change. Those reporting important people leaving their household had the greatest negative outcomes.
很少有研究考察家庭变化对青少年发展的影响。我们在一个城市非裔美国青少年样本中，研究家庭构成变化及其对发展的影响，发展通过内化症状和外化行为来衡量。家庭变化是根据青少年提到的两个最重要成年人之一进出家庭的情况来定义的。我们发现，25%的青少年报告说在高中四年里他们的家庭构成发生了变化。经历过家庭变化的青少年比没有经历过变化的青少年表现出更多的内化症状和外化行为。那些报告有重要人物离开家庭的青少年有最负面的结果。
