Fergusson D M, Horwood L J, Lynskey M T
Department of Psychological Medicine, Christchurch School of Medicine, New Zealand.
J Abnorm Child Psychol. 1994 Jun;22(3):339-54. doi: 10.1007/BF02168078.
The correlations and comorbidities of a series of adolescent problem behaviors were studied in a sample of 739 New Zealand 15-year-olds. This analysis revealed the presence of strong comorbidities between different problem behaviors. The data were modeled using methods of unrestricted latent class analysis and this suggested that the best fitting model to describe the data was one which assumed that adolescent problem behaviors were described by four general classes of children. While the same general four-class model applied to males and females, there were marked gender differences in the rates of problems. Specifically, the predominant problem behaviors in females were those relating to an accelerated transition to adulthood marked by early sexual activity, alcohol abuse, and cannabis use whereas the predominant problems for boys were related to antisocial and law-breaking behaviors. Rates of children with no problems (85%) and with multiple problems (3%) were similar for boys and girls.
在739名新西兰15岁青少年样本中，研究了一系列青少年问题行为的相关性和共病情况。该分析揭示了不同问题行为之间存在强烈的共病现象。使用无限制潜在类别分析方法对数据进行建模，结果表明，描述这些数据的最佳拟合模型是一种假设青少年问题行为由四类一般儿童群体来描述的模型。虽然相同的一般四类模型适用于男性和女性，但问题发生率存在明显的性别差异。具体而言，女性中主要的问题行为是那些与以早期性行为、酗酒和使用大麻为特征的加速成年过渡相关的行为，而男孩的主要问题则与反社会和违法犯罪行为有关。男孩和女孩中无问题儿童的比例（85%）和有多种问题儿童的比例（3%）相似。
