López-Romero Laura, Romero Estrella, Andershed Henrik
Departamento de Psicología Clínica y Psicobiología, Facultad de Psicología, Campus Vida, 15782, Santiago de Compostela, Spain,
Child Psychiatry Hum Dev. 2015 Oct;46(5):762-73. doi: 10.1007/s10578-014-0518-7.
Understanding youth conduct problems requires examination from a developmental perspective, analyzing distinctive pathways across childhood and adolescence, and identifying early predictors which will lead to specific adolescent outcomes. Bearing this in mind, developmental trajectories of conduct problems were identified from a person-oriented perspective, and using data collected from three waves over a six-year period, in a sample of Spanish children aged 6-11 at the onset of the study. Conduct problems showed five distinctive trajectories which were grouped into three major pathways in further analyses: Stable low, Stable high, and Decreasing. Associations with early personality and psychopathic traits, as well as with a wide range of adolescent behavioral and psychosocial outcomes were examined, revealing the Stable high group as exhibiting the highest risk profile. These results contribute to improving our knowledge about one of the most relevant problems in youth populations, and will help in refining interventions strategies by recognizing the developmental heterogeneity of the construct.
理解青少年行为问题需要从发展的角度进行审视，分析贯穿童年和青春期的不同路径，并确定能够导致特定青少年结果的早期预测因素。牢记这一点，从以人为本的角度确定了行为问题的发展轨迹，并使用在六年期间分三波收集的数据，样本为研究开始时年龄在6至11岁的西班牙儿童。行为问题呈现出五种不同的轨迹，在进一步分析中被归为三大路径：稳定低水平、稳定高水平和下降型。研究了这些轨迹与早期人格和精神病态特征以及与广泛的青少年行为和心理社会结果之间的关联，结果显示稳定高水平组的风险特征最高。这些结果有助于增进我们对青少年群体中最相关问题之一的了解，并将通过认识该结构的发展异质性来帮助完善干预策略。
