van Vugt Eveline, Loeber Rolf, Pardini Dustin
Department of Forensic Child and Youth Care Sciences, University of Amsterdam, Nieuwe Achtergracht 127, 1018 WS, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
Crim Behav Ment Health. 2016 Dec;26(5):322-335. doi: 10.1002/cbm.1959. Epub 2015 May 15.
Children born to mothers who were younger than average at their first childbirth are at increased risk for future persistent delinquent behaviour, but explanations for this remain unclear.
Our aim was to identify possible family and parenting variables that may help explain this relationship. We hypothesised that parental stress, large number of children in the home, low socioeconomic status (including neighbourhood problems) and poor parenting would account for the link between early first motherhood and their offspring's delinquency.
Four hundred and sixty-two boys were selected from the Pittsburgh Youth Study, a longitudinal study of a random sample of school boys in Pittsburgh, initially assessed half-yearly and then annually from 7 to 19 years of age, using self-reporting and other reporting methods. Indirect effect models were used to test relationships between variables.
Higher levels of parental stress, poorer parent-child communication and caring for a larger number of children all mediated the relationship between maternal youth and persistent delinquency by their boys, but only explained about 20% of it.
At least partial explanations of the relationship between a mother's age at first childbirth and persistent delinquency in her male offspring suggest that future research should test whether early interventions with younger mothers to decrease their sense of stress in parenting and improve their capacity for communication with their child(ren) may help to prevent persistent delinquency in their boys. Programmes designed to help young women make more informed and planned decisions about their pregnancies should also be evaluated. Copyright © 2015 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
首次生育时年龄低于平均水平的母亲所生子女，未来出现持续犯罪行为的风险会增加，但对此的解释仍不明确。
我们的目的是确定可能有助于解释这种关系的家庭和养育子女方面的变量。我们假设父母压力、家中子女数量多、社会经济地位低（包括邻里问题）以及不良养育方式可以解释早育母亲与其子女犯罪行为之间的联系。
从匹兹堡青年研究中选取了462名男孩，该研究是对匹兹堡学校男孩随机样本的纵向研究，最初每半年评估一次，然后从7岁到19岁每年评估一次，采用自我报告和其他报告方法。使用间接效应模型来检验变量之间的关系。
较高水平的父母压力、较差的亲子沟通以及照顾更多子女，都介导了母亲年轻时生育与其儿子持续犯罪行为之间的关系，但仅解释了其中约20%的原因。
对于首次生育时母亲的年龄与其男性后代持续犯罪行为之间的关系，至少部分解释表明，未来的研究应测试对年轻母亲进行早期干预，以减轻她们育儿时的压力感并提高她们与孩子沟通的能力，是否有助于预防其儿子的持续犯罪行为。还应对旨在帮助年轻女性就怀孕做出更明智和有计划决策的项目进行评估。版权所有© 2015约翰·威利父子有限公司。
