Thornberry Terence P, Krohn Marvin D, Augustyn Megan Bears, Buchanan Molly, Greenman Sarah J
Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice, University of Maryland, 2220 LeFrak Hall, College Park, MD 20742, United States.
Department of Sociology and Criminology & Law, University of Florida, P.O. Box 117330, Gainesville, FL 32611, United States.
Adv Life Course Res. 2016 Jun;28:6-21. doi: 10.1016/j.alcr.2015.04.002.
Prior literature suggests that involvement in adolescent risk behaviors will have short- and long-term consequences that disrupt the orderly flow of later development, including impacts on patterns of partner relationships. In this study, we explore how adolescent involvement in delinquency, drug use, and sexual behavior at an early age affects the likelihood and timing of both marriage and cohabitation using a sample from the Rochester Youth Development Study. We also examine the direct effects of dropping out of high school, teenage parenthood, and financial stress during emerging adulthood as well as their potential role as mediators of the relationships between adolescent risk behaviors and partnering for both males and females. Overall, there is not very strong support for a direct relationship between adolescent delinquency, drug use, or early sexual behavior and patterns of partner formation. In contrast, the more proximal relationships, indicated by precocious transitions to adulthood and financial instability, are more consistently related to partner formation. These findings support models of cumulative disadvantage: early adolescent problem behaviors are weakly related to partner formation, but appear to set in motion cascading consequences that influence the transition to adulthood and, in turn, these more proximal variables are more consistently related to partner formation.
先前的文献表明，参与青少年风险行为会产生短期和长期后果，扰乱后期发展的有序进程，包括对伴侣关系模式的影响。在本研究中，我们利用罗切斯特青年发展研究的样本，探讨青少年早期参与犯罪、吸毒和性行为如何影响结婚和同居的可能性及时间。我们还研究了成年初期辍学、少女怀孕和经济压力的直接影响，以及它们作为青少年风险行为与男女伴侣关系之间潜在中介的作用。总体而言，对于青少年犯罪、吸毒或早期性行为与伴侣形成模式之间的直接关系，支持力度不是很强。相比之下，由早熟的成年过渡和经济不稳定所表明的更直接的关系，与伴侣形成的关联更为一致。这些发现支持了累积劣势模型：青少年早期的问题行为与伴侣形成的关系较弱，但似乎引发了一系列连锁反应，影响向成年期的过渡，反过来，这些更直接的变量与伴侣形成的关联更为一致。
