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Developmental trajectories of offending: Validation and prediction to young adult alcohol use, drug use, and depressive symptoms

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 April 2005

MARGIT WIESNER ,
HYOUN K. KIM  and
DEBORAH M. CAPALDI
MARGIT WIESNER
Affiliation:
University of Alabama, Birmingham
HYOUN K. KIM
Affiliation:
Oregon Social Learning Center
DEBORAH M. CAPALDI
Affiliation:
Oregon Social Learning Center
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Abstract

This longitudinal study extended previous work of Wiesner and Capaldi by examining the validity of differing offending pathways and the prediction from the pathways to substance use and depressive symptoms for 204 young men. Findings from this study indicated good external validity of the offending trajectories. Further, substance use and depressive symptoms in young adulthood (i.e., ages 23–24 through 25–26 years) varied depending on different trajectories of offending from early adolescence to young adulthood (i.e., ages 12–13 through 23–24 years), even after controlling for antisocial propensity, parental criminality, demographic factors, and prior levels of each outcome. Specifically, chronic high-level offenders had higher levels of depressive symptoms and engaged more often in drug use compared with very rare, decreasing low-level, and decreasing high-level offenders. Chronic low-level offenders, in contrast, displayed fewer systematic differences compared with the two decreasing offender groups and the chronic high-level offenders. The findings supported the contention that varying courses of offending may have plausible causal effects on young adult outcomes beyond the effects of an underlying propensity for crime.

Support for the Oregon Youth Study was provided by a grant (R37 MH 37940) from the Prevention, Early Intervention, and Epidemiology Branch, National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), US Public Health Service (PHS). Support for the Couples Study was provided by a grant (HD 46364) from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) and National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), US PHS. Support was also provided by a grant (MH 46690) from the Prevention, Early Intervention, and Epidemiology Branch, NIMH, Office of Research on Minority Health, US PHS. We thank Jane Wilson, Rhody Hinks, and the Oregon Youth Study team for high-quality data collection, and Lee Owen for assistance with data preparation.

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Development and Psychopathology , Volume 17 , Issue 1 , March 2005 , pp. 251 - 270
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© 2005 Cambridge University Press

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