Duke University, Center for Child and Family Policy, Durham, NC, USA.
Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, Bethesda, MD, USA.
New Dir Child Adolesc Dev. 2020 Jul;2020(172):73-88. doi: 10.1002/cad.20361. Epub 2020 Sep 23.
This study tested culture-general and culture-specific aspects of adolescent developmental processes by focusing on opportunities and peer support for aggressive and delinquent behavior, which could help account for cultural similarities and differences in problem behavior during adolescence. Adolescents from 12 cultural groups in 9 countries (China, Colombia, Italy, Jordan, Kenya, the Philippines, Sweden, Thailand, and the United States) provided data at ages 12, 14, and 15. Variance in opportunities and peer support for aggression and delinquency, as well as aggressive and delinquent behavior, was greater within than between cultures. Across cultural groups, opportunities and peer support for aggression and delinquency increased from early to mid-adolescence. Consistently across diverse cultural groups, opportunities and peer support for aggression and delinquency predicted subsequent aggressive and delinquent behavior, even after controlling for prior aggressive and delinquent behavior. The findings illustrate ways that international collaborative research can contribute to developmental science by embedding the study of development within cultural contexts.
本研究通过关注攻击和犯罪行为的机会和同伴支持这两个方面,检验了青少年发展过程中具有文化普遍性和文化特殊性的方面,这有助于解释青少年时期问题行为的文化相似性和差异性。来自 9 个国家(中国、哥伦比亚、意大利、约旦、肯尼亚、菲律宾、瑞典、泰国和美国)的 12 个文化群体的青少年在 12、14 和 15 岁时提供了数据。攻击和犯罪行为的机会和同伴支持以及攻击和犯罪行为的差异在文化内部大于文化之间。在不同的文化群体中,攻击和犯罪行为的机会和同伴支持从青少年早期到中期逐渐增加。在不同的文化群体中,攻击和犯罪行为的机会和同伴支持都可以预测随后的攻击和犯罪行为,即使在控制了先前的攻击和犯罪行为之后也是如此。这些发现说明了通过将发展研究嵌入文化背景中,国际合作研究可以为发展科学做出贡献的方式。