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Antisocial Behavior of Adoptees and Nonadoptees: Prediction from Early History and Adolescent Relationships
Author(s) -
Grotevant Harold D.,
Dulmen Manfred H. M.,
Dunbar Nora,
NelsonChristinedaughter Justine,
Christensen Mathew,
Fan Xitao,
Miller Brent C.
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
journal of research on adolescence
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.342
H-Index - 95
eISSN - 1532-7795
pISSN - 1050-8392
DOI - 10.1111/j.1532-7795.2006.00124.x
Subject(s) - psychology , longitudinal study , predictive power , adolescent health , developmental psychology , early adulthood , clinical psychology , longitudinal data , dating violence , peer influence , adolescent development , peer group , human factors and ergonomics , young adult , poison control , domestic violence , demography , medicine , philosophy , nursing , environmental health , epistemology , pathology , sociology
This study examined the contribution of demographic characteristics, early maltreatment, and peer and family relationships during adolescence to the prediction of aggressive and nonaggressive antisocial behavior (AASB and NAASB, respectively) during young adulthood; and determined whether adoption status has additional ability to predict ASB, once background, early experience, peer, and family variables were controlled. Data from adolescent and parent interviews were used from Waves 1 (predictors) and 3 (outcomes) of the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health). The sample included 337 adopted and 10,339 nonadopted adolescents whose mean ages were 15.8 at W1 and 21.7 at W3. Although AASB and NAASB were predicted by background characteristics, early maltreatment, peer relations, and family relationships, adoption status had little to no additional predictive power once the other variables were controlled.