Medical School, Medical Sciences Campus, Behavioral Sciences Research Institute, University of Puerto Rico, PO Box 365067, San Juan, PR, 00936‑5067, USA.
Department of Psychology, New York University, New York, NY, USA.
Soc Psychiatry Psychiatr Epidemiol. 2022 Feb;57(2):267-277. doi: 10.1007/s00127-021-02148-z. Epub 2021 Aug 6.
The patterns or trajectories of serious antisocial behavior (ASB) in children are examined to determine the extent to which context, gender, and the severity and persistence of ASB from childhood/early adolescence to later adolescence/early adulthood is associated with negative outcomes.
A four wave longitudinal study obtained data on two multi-stage probability household samples of Puerto Rican background children (5-13 years at baseline) living in the San Juan Metropolitan Area of Puerto Rico (PR) and the South Bronx (SBx) of New York. The outcomes studied were any psychiatric disorder including substance use disorders and teenage pregnancy.
Both males and females raised in the SBx had much higher risk of serious ASB (42.3%) as compared to those in PR (17.8%). Concurrent ASB4 + in the fourth wave was strongly related to SUD and MDD for both males and females at Wave 4.
Serious ASB is likely to persist at least to the next developmental period of a child and is likely to be associated with substance use disorders and major depression later in life.
本研究旨在探讨儿童严重反社会行为（ASB）的模式或轨迹，以确定从儿童/青少年早期到青少年晚期/成年早期，背景、性别以及 ASB 的严重程度和持续性与负面结果之间的关联程度。
一项四波纵向研究获得了波多黎各背景儿童（基线时 5-13 岁）的两个多阶段概率家庭样本的数据，这些儿童生活在波多黎各圣胡安大都市区（PR）和纽约南布朗克斯（SBx）。研究的结果是包括物质使用障碍和青少年怀孕在内的任何精神障碍。
与 PR（17.8%）相比，在 SBx 长大的男性和女性发生严重 ASB（42.3%）的风险高得多。第四波时的并发 ASB4+与男女在第四波时的 SUD 和 MDD 密切相关。
严重的 ASB 很可能至少持续到儿童的下一个发展阶段，并且很可能与以后的物质使用障碍和重度抑郁症有关。
