Rekker Roderik, Pardini Dustin, Keijsers Loes, Branje Susan, Loeber Rolf, Meeus Wim
Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America.
PLoS One. 2015 Nov 17;10(11):e0136461. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0136461. eCollection 2015.
A family's SES can be changeable over time. This study was the first to investigate if such within-individual changes in family SES are associated with parallel fluctuations in boys' delinquent behavior from childhood to adolescence. Participants were a community sample of boys and their caregivers (N = 503) who were assessed annually for ten consecutive years spanning ages 7-18. Fixed effects models revealed that changes in familial SES were related to changes in delinquency: Youths were more likely to offend during years in which their parents' SES was lower than during years in which their parents' SES was higher. Contrary to expectations, we found no evidence that this association was accounted for by families moving to different neighborhoods or by changes in parenting. Since within-individual models provide a stricter test of causality than between-individual models, these findings support claims that impacting familial SES may have a direct effect on youths' delinquency.
一个家庭的社会经济地位（SES）会随时间变化。本研究首次调查了家庭SES的个体内部变化是否与男孩从童年到青春期的犯罪行为的平行波动相关。参与者是来自社区的男孩及其照顾者样本（N = 503），他们在7至18岁的连续十年中每年接受评估。固定效应模型显示，家庭SES的变化与犯罪行为的变化有关：与父母SES较高的年份相比，青少年在父母SES较低的年份更有可能犯罪。与预期相反，我们没有发现证据表明这种关联是由家庭搬到不同社区或养育方式的变化所导致的。由于个体内部模型比个体之间的模型提供了更严格的因果关系检验，这些发现支持了这样的观点，即影响家庭SES可能对青少年犯罪有直接影响。
