Walters Glenn D
Department of Criminal Justice, Kutztown University, Kutztown, PA 19530-0730, United States.
Int J Law Psychiatry. 2022 Jan-Feb;80:101761. doi: 10.1016/j.ijlp.2021.101761. Epub 2021 Dec 4.
The purpose of this study was to determine whether adolescent drug use can be considered part of the antisocial spectrum. This was done by testing two pathways from adolescent drug use to early adult offending, one of which was mediated by cognitive insensitivity and the other of which was mediated by cognitive impulsivity. It was hypothesized that the impulsivity-mediated pathway would achieve significance, the insensitivity-mediated pathway would not achieve significance, and the impulsivity-mediated indirect effect would significantly outperform the insensitivity-mediated indirect effect. Participants for this study were the 4576 youth from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health (Add Health). All participants in the current investigation were between the ages of 11 and 18 at the start of the study (Time 1 or Wave II of Add Health). The research hypothesis received partial support in that while the impulsivity-mediated pathway achieved significance and the insensitivity-mediated pathway did not, the difference between the two pathways was non-significant. These results suggest that early drug use may play a role in the antisocial spectrum as an antecedent to delinquency/crime by way of cognitive impulsivity.
本研究的目的是确定青少年吸毒是否可被视为反社会谱系的一部分。为此，研究测试了从青少年吸毒到成年早期犯罪的两条路径，其中一条由认知不敏感介导，另一条由认知冲动性介导。研究假设冲动性介导的路径将具有显著性，不敏感介导的路径不具有显著性，且冲动性介导的间接效应将显著优于不敏感介导的间接效应。本研究的参与者是来自全国青少年健康纵向研究（Add Health）的4576名青少年。本调查的所有参与者在研究开始时（Add Health的时间1或第二波）年龄在11至18岁之间。研究假设得到了部分支持，即虽然冲动性介导的路径具有显著性，不敏感介导的路径不具有显著性，但两条路径之间的差异不显著。这些结果表明，早期吸毒可能通过认知冲动性，作为犯罪/违法行为的一个前因，在反社会谱系中发挥作用。
