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Effects of childhood conduct problems and family adversity on health, health behaviors, and service use in early adulthood: Tests of developmental pathways involving adolescent risk taking and depression

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 June 2010

Todd I. Herrenkohl ,
Rick Kosterman ,
W. Alex Mason ,
J. David Hawkins ,
Carolyn A. McCarty  and
Elizabeth McCauley
Todd I. Herrenkohl*
Affiliation:
University of Washington, Seattle
Rick Kosterman
Affiliation:
University of Washington, Seattle
W. Alex Mason
Affiliation:
National Research Institute for Child and Family Studies, Boys Town
J. David Hawkins
Affiliation:
University of Washington, Seattle
Carolyn A. McCarty
Affiliation:
University of Washington, Seattle
Elizabeth McCauley
Affiliation:
University of Washington, Seattle
*
Address correspondence and reprint requests to: Todd I. Herrenkohl, Social Development Research Group, 9725 3rd Avenue NE, Suite 401, Seattle, WA 98115; E-mail: tih@u.washington.edu.
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Abstract

This study examined a developmental, cascade model that includes childhood risks of conduct problems and family adversity at age 10–12; conduct problems, risk taking, and internalizing during adolescence; and adult outcomes of conduct problems, poor health, health risks, depression, and service use at ages 27 and 30. Analyses showed that childhood conduct problems predicted adolescent conduct problems and risk taking, which in turn, predicted adult conduct problems, health risks, depression, and service use. Childhood family adversity predicted adolescent internalizing, a predictor itself of poor health, depression, and service use at age 27. There was considerable continuity in the same adult outcomes measured over a 3-year period, as well as some cross-domain prediction from variables at age 27 to measures at age 30. Developmental patterns found in these data offer implications for future research and prevention.

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Development and Psychopathology , Volume 22 , Issue 3: Developmental Cascades: Part 1 , August 2010 , pp. 655 - 665
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2010

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