Which forms of child/adolescent externalizing behaviors account for late adolescent risky sexual behavior and substance use?

Timmermans, M.; Lier, P.A.C. van; Koot, Hans M.

doi:10.1111/j.1469-7610.2007.01842.x

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“…Previous research has identified several risk factors for adolescent HRSB across child, family, peer, and socioeconomic domains during adolescence, including the following: sensation seeking, 5-7 externalizing problems, 8,9 low parental monitoring, [10][11][12] deviant peer affiliation, 13,14 and low socioeconomic status (SES). 15 However, studies investigating HRSB often explore a limited number of risk factors despite well-established associations linking individual and contextual risk to HRSB.…”

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Developmental Pathways to Sexual Risk Behavior in High-Risk Adolescent Boys

Sitnick¹,

Brennan²,

Forbes

et al. 2014

Pediatrics

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WHAT'S KNOWN ON THIS SUBJECT: Investigations of adolescents' sexual risk behavior have focused on factors such as parental monitoring, deviant peer affiliation, and daring that occur during early and midadolescence. Less is known about early childhood precursors to adolescent sexual risk behavior. WHAT THIS STUDY ADDS:This prospective longitudinal study identifies parenting practices and mothers' depressive symptomatology during early childhood as precursors to later sexual risk behavior and involvement in pregnancy in adolescent boys, with deviant peer affiliation during emerging adolescence mediating these relationships. abstract OBJECTIVE: Adolescent boys' involvement in pregnancy and sexual risk behavior is a public health concern. Although research has identified predictors of sexual risk behavior during adolescence, few studies have investigated precursors to boys' sexual risk behavior beginning in early childhood, the identification of which could serve to inform interventions and help reduce involvement in pregnancy. Our goal was to identify early developmental pathways associated with sexual risk behavior in a sample of low-income adolescent boys. METHODS:Data from a prospective longitudinal study in 310 at-risk boys were used to examine externalizing problems, mothers' depressive symptoms, and low-nurturant parenting in early childhood (1.5, 2, and 3.5 years old) and daring, externalizing, parental monitoring, and deviant peer affiliation during emerging adolescence (11 and 12 years old) as precursors of sexual risk behavior between the ages 15 and 20 years. Structural equation modeling was used to explore pathways associated with later high-risk sexual behavior (HRSB). RESULTS:In multivariate analyses, adolescent daring and deviant peer affiliation at age 12 were associated with later HRSB. Furthermore, deviant peer affiliation during emerging adolescence mediated the relationship between mothers' depressive symptoms and nurturant parenting during early childhood and later adolescent HRSB. CONCLUSIONS:Family-based risk factors in early childhood are predictive of HRSB in adolescence but are also influenced, and in some cases mediated, by relationships with peers and child characteristics during emerging adolescence.

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Developmental Pathways to Sexual Risk Behavior in High-Risk Adolescent Boys

Sitnick¹,

Brennan²,

Forbes

et al. 2014

Pediatrics

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“…13,14 In addition, prospective studies have revealed associations between individual child and adolescent problem behaviors largely of the externalizing type and early FSI. [15][16][17][18] Problem behaviors encompass externalizing behaviors, which include aggressive and delinquent behaviors, linked to poor behavioral control, impulsivity and risk taking, 15,19 and internalizing behaviors including social avoidance and withdrawal, which are linked to depression and anxiety in adolescence. 20 Problem behaviors affect a child's functioning, cause emotional distress, and are linked to other negative outcomes in later life, including high school noncompletion 21 ; physical health problems 22 ; drug and alcohol misuse 23 ; marital difficulties 24 ; increased mortality 25 ; and involvement in the criminal and justice system.…”

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Childhood Behavior Problems and Age at First Sexual Intercourse: A Prospective Birth Cohort Study

Skinner¹,

Robinson

Smith

et al. 2015

Pediatrics

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BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Early first sexual intercourse (FSI) is a risk factor for unplanned teenage pregnancy, sexually transmitted infection, and adverse social, emotional, and physical health outcomes in adolescence and into adulthood. The aim of this study was to examine relationships between internalizing (eg, anxious/depressed, withdrawn) and externalizing (eg, delinquent, aggressive) behavior problems in childhood and age at FSI.

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“…temper, stubborn). Only a few studies have confirmed this subdivision of externalizing behavior and have suggested that these different externalizing behavior types differ in their development and long-term outcome [6,8,30,31]. To our knowledge, no studies have reported about psychiatric outcomes in adulthood.…”

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“…Overall, status violations have been found to increase with increasing age [6] whereas the other subtypes decrease or persist over time. In addition, oppositional has been found to predict social problems in adulthood, while status violations has been found to predict both social problems and drug abuse, and aggression and property violations to predict drug abuse and risky sexual behavior [8,30].…”

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“…For instance, children in stable high-level trajectories are more likely to show poor outcomes (e.g. delinquency, aggression or substance use) [9,10,30] than children on low-level or increasing trajectories [8,9,26]. Furthermore, individuals in externalizing behavior trajectories of the 'life-course-persistent' and 'child onset' subtype experience in general more adult problems (e.g.…”

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Predicting adult emotional and behavioral problems from externalizing problem trajectories in a 24-year longitudinal study

Reef

Diamantopoulou

Meurs

et al. 2010

Eur Child Adolesc Psychiatry

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The aim of this study was to examine the prediction of adult behavioral and emotional problems from developmental trajectories of externalizing behavior in a 24-years longitudinal population-based study of 2,076 children. The adult psychiatric outcome of these trajectories has not yet been examined. Trajectories of the four externalizing behavior types: aggression, opposition, property violations and status violations were determined separately through latent class growth analysis using data of five waves, covering ages 4-18 years. We used regression analyses to determine the associations between children's trajectories and adults' psychiatric problems based on the Adult Self-Report. The developmental trajectories of the four types of externalizing behavior mostly predicted intrusive, aggressive and rule-breaking behavior in adulthood. Non-destructive behaviors in childhood such as opposition and status violations predict adult problems to a larger extent than destructive behaviors such as aggression and property violations. In general, children who develop through high-level trajectories are likely to suffer from both internalizing and externalizing problem behavior in adulthood, regardless the direction of change (i.e. increasing/decreasing/persisting) of the high-level trajectory. We can conclude that the level rather than the developmental change of externalizing behavior problems has a larger impact on adult outcome.

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Which forms of child/adolescent externalizing behaviors account for late adolescent risky sexual behavior and substance use?

Cited by 118 publications

References 38 publications

Developmental Pathways to Sexual Risk Behavior in High-Risk Adolescent Boys

Developmental Pathways to Sexual Risk Behavior in High-Risk Adolescent Boys

Childhood Behavior Problems and Age at First Sexual Intercourse: A Prospective Birth Cohort Study

Predicting adult emotional and behavioral problems from externalizing problem trajectories in a 24-year longitudinal study

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