Beyond Adolescence: Problem Behaviour and Young Adult Development

321 Pages·1992·5.89 MB·English

by  Richard Jessor

Beyond adolescence

Beyond adolescence
Problem behavior
and young adult development
Richard Jessor
John Edward Donovan
Frances Marie Costa
Institute of Behavioral Science, University of Colorado
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First published 1991
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Contents
List of tables and figures page vii
Preface xiii
Part I: The approach
1. Introduction 3
2. Problem-Behavior Theory and young adulthood 17
3. Following up lives 39
Part II: Young adulthood
4. The participants as young adults 69
5. Problem behavior in young adulthood 99
6. Psychosocial correlates of problem behavior in
young adulthood 129
Part III: Development and change
7. Psychosocial development from adolescence to
young adulthood 159
8. Linking proneness to problem behavior in
adolescence with involvement in problem behavior
in young adulthood 195
9. Involvement in problem behavior in adolescence/
youth and outcomes in young adulthood 251
Part IV: Conclusions
10. Problem behavior and young adulthood:
Continuities in change 273
Name index 297
Subject index 301

Tables and figures
Tables
3.1 Participation in Wave V (1979) and Wave VI
(1981) of the Young Adult Follow-Up Study, by
gender and sample page 46
3.2 Scale properties for the multiple-item measures
of the Personality System and Perceived
Environment System variables, based on 1981
young adult data 59
5.1 Pearson correlations among continuous measures
of problem behavior and conventional behavior,
by study and gender, 1981 young adult data 112
5.2 Standardized loadings of indicator measures on
latent-variable measures of problem behavior, by
study, 1981 young adult data 120
5.3 Correlations among latent-variable measures of
problem behavior, by study, 1981 young
adult data 122
5.4 The Multiple Problem Behavior Index
psychometric properties, by study and gender,
1981 young adult data 125
6.1 Pearson correlations of measures of psychosocial
proneness and of life stress with the summary
measure of problem behavior involvement in
young adulthood (1981), by group 132
viii Tables and figures
6.2 Pearson correlations of measures of psychosocial
proneness and life stress with measures of
specific problem behaviors in young adulthood
(1981), by group 136
6.3 Multiple correlations of psychosocial proneness
with the summary measure of problem behavior
in young adulthood (1981) 141
6.4 Multiple correlations of psychosocial proneness
with measures of specific problem and
conventional behaviors in young adulthood
(1981) 144
6.5 Multiple correlations of stress with measures of
problem and conventional behavior in young
adulthood (1981) 150
6.6 Hierarchical multiple correlations of overall
psychosocial proneness and stress with measures
of problem and conventional behavior in young
adulthood (1981), by group 152
7.1 Stability coefficients for the psychosocial
measures between Wave IV (1972/1973) and
Wave VI (1981) High School and College
samples 163
7.2 Stability coefficients for the psychosocial
measures between Wave V (1979) and
Wave VI (1981) High School and
College samples 166
8.1 Pearson correlations of measures of psychosocial
proneness in adolescence/youth (1972/1973)
with the summary measure of problem behavior
in young adulthood (1981), by group 197
8.2 Multiple correlations of psychosocial proneness
in adolescence/youth (1972/1973) with the
summary measure of problem behavior in young
adulthood (1981) 203
8.3 Pearson correlations of measures of psychosocial
proneness in adolescence /youth (1972/1973)
Tables and figures ix
with measures of specific problem and
conventional behaviors in young adulthood
(1981), by group 208
8.4 Multiple correlations of psychosocial proneness
in adolescence/youth (1972/1973) with
measures of specific problem and conventional
behaviors in young adulthood (1981) 214
8.5 Pearson correlations of measures of psychosocial
proneness in adolescence/youth (1972/1973)
with measures of Educational and Occupational
Attainment in young adulthood (1981), by group 221
8.6 Multiple correlations of psychosocial
proneness in adolescence/youth (1972/1973)
with measures of Educational and
Occupational Attainment in young adulthood
(1981) 228
8.7 Standardized factor loadings of observed
variables on latent variables of Personality,
Perceived Environment, and Behavior System
proneness, in adolescence/youth (1972/1973)
and young adulthood (1981), by study 233
8.8 Correlations among latent-variable measures of
Personality, Perceived Environment, and
Behavior System proneness in adolescence/
youth (1972/1973) and young adulthood (1981),
by study 235
9.1 Mean differences on selected young adult (1981)
measures for the three adolescent/youth (1972/
1973) problem behavior involvement groups 256
9.2 Hierarchical multiple regressions of selected
outcome measures in young adulthood (1981) on
adolescent/youth (1972/1973) measures of
involvement in three problem behaviors, with
multiple problem behavior in 1981 as control,
High School Study females 262
£ Tables and figures
Figures
2.1 The conceptual structure of Problem-Behavior
Theory used in the Young Adult Follow-Up
Study 21
3.1 The longitudinal design for the High School
Study 40
3.2 The longitudinal design for the College Study 41
5.1 The second-order latent variable of Behavior
System proneness for problem behavior, showing
the High School Study and College Study
loadings of the five different problem-behavior
latent variables 123
7.1 Development of Value on Achievement, High
School Study and College Study samples 170
7.2 Development of Value on Independence, High
School Study and College Study samples 171
7.3 Development of Social Criticism, High School
Study and College Study samples 171
7.4 Development of Alienation, High School Study
and College Study samples 172
7.5 Development of Attitudinal Intolerance of
Deviance, High School Study and College
Study samples 172
7.6 Development of Religiosity, High School Study
and College Study samples 173
7.7 Development of Friends' Approval of Drugs,
High School Study and College Study samples 174
7.8 Development of Friends Models for Drugs,
High School Study and College Study samples 175
7.9 Development of General Deviant Behavior, High
School Study and College Study samples 176
7.10 Development of Church Attendance, High
School Study and College Study samples 177
7.11 Development of psychosocial conventionality,
High School Study sample 183