Vaughn Michael G, Salas-Wright Christopher P, DeLisi Matt, Qian Zhengmin
School of Social Work, College for Public Health and Social Justice, Saint Louis University, Tegeler Hall, 3550 Lindell Boulevard, St. Louis, MO, 63103, USA,
Soc Psychiatry Psychiatr Epidemiol. 2015 May;50(5):821-31. doi: 10.1007/s00127-014-0987-9. Epub 2014 Nov 20.
Multiple avenues of research (e.g., criminal careers, intergenerational family transmission, and epidemiological studies) have indicated a concentration of antisocial traits and behaviors that cluster among families and within individuals in a population. The current study draws on each of these perspectives in exploring the intergenerational contours of antisocial personality disorder across multiple generations of a large-scale epidemiological sample.
The analytic sample of persons meeting criteria for antisocial personality disorder (N = 1,226) was derived from waves I and II of the National Epidemiologic Survey on Alcohol and Related Conditions. Path analytic, latent class, and multinomial models were executed to describe and elucidate family histories among persons diagnosed with antisocial personality disorder.
Three classes of an antisocial family tree were found: minimal family history of problem behaviors (70.3 % of sample) who were characterized by higher socioeconomic functioning, parental and progeny behavior problems (9.4 % of sample) who were characterized by criminal behaviors, psychopathology, and substance use disorders, and multigenerational history of problem behaviors (20.3 % of sample) who were characterized by alcoholism, psychopathology, and versatile criminal offending.
These findings add a typology to intergenerational studies of antisocial behavior that can assist in identifying etiological and treatment factors among those for whom crime runs in the family.
多种研究途径（如犯罪生涯、代际家庭传递和流行病学研究）表明，反社会特质和行为在人群中的家庭及个体间呈聚集状态。本研究借鉴这些观点，在一个大规模流行病学样本的多代人中探索反社会人格障碍的代际特征。
符合反社会人格障碍标准的分析样本（N = 1226）来自全国酒精及相关状况流行病学调查的第一波和第二波。运用路径分析、潜在类别分析和多项模型来描述和阐明被诊断为反社会人格障碍者的家族史。
发现了三类反社会家族谱系：问题行为家族史最少的（占样本的70.3%），其特征是社会经济功能较高；父母及后代存在行为问题的（占样本的9.4%），其特征是有犯罪行为、精神病理学问题和物质使用障碍；问题行为具有多代家族史的（占样本的20.3%），其特征是酗酒、精神病理学问题和多种犯罪行为。
这些发现为反社会行为的代际研究增添了一种类型学方法，有助于识别家族中存在犯罪问题者的病因和治疗因素。
