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General deviance and psychological distress: impact of family support/bonding over 12 years from adolescence to adulthood
Author(s) -
Newcomb Michael D.
Publication year - 1997
Publication title -
criminal behaviour and mental health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.63
H-Index - 54
eISSN - 1471-2857
pISSN - 0957-9664
DOI - 10.1002/cbm.196
Subject(s) - psychology , deviance (statistics) , distress , psychological distress , clinical psychology , derogation , young adult , association (psychology) , cross sectional study , developmental psychology , psychiatry , medicine , mental health , social psychology , statistics , mathematics , pathology , psychotherapist
Comorbidity occurs within and across various domains of human pathology and may be diverse manifestations of a single, general dysfunction in early family support and bonding. Family socialisation, pseudomaturity, and self‐derogation theories were tested using cross‐sectional and 12‐year prospective data from a community sample assessed in late adolescence (age 18) and again in adulthood (age 30). All of the hypotheses and expected findings received some support in the data analyses. these have confirmed that: (1) general deviance and psychological distress were significantly correlated for both men and women and therefore are overlapping and comorbid disorders; (2) both general distress and psychological distress were significantly predicted by family support/bonding in cross‐sectional analyses for men and women; (3) family support/bonding fully accounted for the cross‐sectional association between general deviance and psychological distress for men and substantially reduced the association between these constructs for the women; (4) over time family support/bonding reduced psychological distress for the women and general deviance for the men; (5) both theories of pseudomaturity and self‐derogation explained many of the prospective effects from late adolescence into adulthood; (6) sexual involvement, although an indicator of general deviance, related negatively with indicators of psychological distress; (7) different patterns were evident for the developmental periods of adolescence compared with adulthood; and (8) many of the processes differed by sex. Copyright © 1997 Whurr Publishers Ltd.