Socioemotional Development and Health from Adolescence to Adulthood

441 Pages·2006·3.38 MB·English

by  Lea Pulkkinen

P1:KAE
0521846315pre CUNY360B/Pulkkinen 0521846315 May8,2006 20:37
This page intentionally left blank
ii
P1:KAE
0521846315pre CUNY360B/Pulkkinen 0521846315 May8,2006 20:37
SocioemotionalDevelopmentandHealth
FromAdolescencetoAdulthood
Thisbookisbasedontwolongitudinalstudiesofbehaviordevelopment,both
conducted in Finland, a living laboratory setting for longitudinal research.
MuchofthebookreportsresultsfromalongitudinalstudybeguninJyva¨skyla¨,
Finland,in1968,whenitsparticipantswereschoolchildren.Thisstudyiscom-
plementedbytwoFinnishtwin-familystudiestoyieldinsightsintogenetic
andenvironmentalsourcesofvariationinearlydevelopmentandlaterout-
comes.Findingsfromthetwosetsoflongitudinalstudiesarepresented,set
withinatheoreticalframeworkofsocioemotionaldevelopment,andfocused
onpredictorsofhealth-relatedoutcomesfromchildhoodtoearlyadulthood.
Lea Pulkkinen is Professor of Psychology at the University of Jyva¨skyla¨ in
Finland.ShewastheDirectoroftheProgramonHumanDevelopmentand
ItsRiskFactors,approvedastheFinnishCentreofExcellencefrom1997to
2005,andPresidentoftheInternationalSocietyfortheStudyofBehavioural
Development(ISSBD)from1991to1996.Shehasconductedanongoinglon-
gitudinalstudysince1968andhascollaboratedinthetwinstudysince1991.
Shehasmorethan350originalpublications.Shehasservedonanumberof
nationalcommitteesandhascontributedtothereformoftheFinnishschool
systemfromthepointofviewofchildren’ssocioemotionaldevelopment.She
receivedtheFinnishScienceAwardin2001,theAristotlePrizefromtheEuro-
peanFederationofPsychologists’Associations(EFPA),andtheDistinguished
Scientific Contributions to Child Development Award from the Society for
ResearchinChildDevelopment(SRCD)intheUnitedStatesin2005.
Jaakko Kaprio is Professor of Genetic Epidemiology at the University of
HelsinkiandResearchProfessorinBehavioralGeneticsattheNationalPublic
HealthInstituteofFinland.HehasworkedwiththeFinnishCohortstudies
since1976andhasbeenresponsibleforanexpansionoftheincludedcohorts
andextensivephenotypingthroughrepeatedquestionnaireandinterviewsur-
veysandrecording-linkagetonationalmedicalregistries.Heisaninternation-
allyrecognizedexpertinepidemiologyandtwinstudieswithmorethan350
originalpublicationsandcontinuousU.S.NationalInstitutesofHealth(NIH)
funding for the past 20 years, and he was recently elected President of the
InternationalSocietyforTwinStudies.Hehaspublishedinleadingmedical
journalssuchastheNEJM,JAMA,Lancet,NatureGenetics,NatureNeuroscience,
BMJ,andPLoSMedicine.
RichardJ.RoseisProfessorofPsychologyandMedicalGeneticsatIndiana
University.HewasafoundingmemberoftheBehaviorGeneticsAssociation
and has served as its president. He has been the Principal Investigator on
NIHgrantawardsforthetwoFinnTwinstudies.HehasbeenaSeniorFellow
of the Fogarty International Foundation of NIH and has received a NATO
TravelingScholarAwardandaSeniorResearchFellowshipfromtheNIH.His
mostrecentresearchgrant,awardedforcontinuationofFinnTwinresearch,
wasconvertedtoaMERITaward.
i
P1:KAE
0521846315pre CUNY360B/Pulkkinen 0521846315 May8,2006 20:37
ii
P1:KAE
0521846315pre CUNY360B/Pulkkinen 0521846315 May8,2006 20:37
cambridgestudiesonchild
andadolescenthealth
SteeringCommittee
KlausHurrelmann,UniversityofBielefeld,Germany
CandaceCurrie,UniversityofEdinburgh,UnitedKingdom
VivianB.Rasmussen,WHORegionalOfficeforEurope,
Copenhagen,Denmark
JohnSchulenberg,UniversityofMichigan,USA
DiabeticAdolescentsandTheirFamilies:Stress,Coping,and
Adaptation,IngeSeiffge-Krenke
HowChildrenLearntoBeHealthy,BarbaraJ.Tinsley
GenderDifferencesatPuberty,ChrisHayward
OutofOptions:ACognitiveModelofAdolescentSuicideand
RiskTaking,KateSofronoff,LenDalgleish,andRobert
Kosky
iii
P1:KAE
0521846315pre CUNY360B/Pulkkinen 0521846315 May8,2006 20:37
iv
P1:KAE
0521846315pre CUNY360B/Pulkkinen 0521846315 May8,2006 20:37
Socioemotional Development
and Health From Adolescence
to Adulthood
Editedby
LEA PULKKINEN
UniversityofJyva¨skyla¨,Finland
JAAKKO KAPRIO
UniversityofHelsinki,Finland
RICHARD J. ROSE
IndianaUniversity,UnitedStates
v
  
Cambridge,NewYork,Melbourne,Madrid,CapeTown,Singapore,SãoPaulo
Cambridge University Press
TheEdinburghBuilding,Cambridge,UK
PublishedintheUnitedStatesofAmericabyCambridgeUniversityPress,NewYork
www.cambridge.org
Information on this title: www.cambridg e.org /9780521846318
©CambridgeUniversityPress2006
Thispublicationisincopyright.Subjecttostatutoryexceptionandtotheprovisionof
relevantcollectivelicensingagreements,noreproductionofanypartmaytakeplace
withoutthewrittenpermissionofCambridgeUniversityPress.
Firstpublishedinprintformat 2006
- ---- eBook(EBL)
- --- eBook(EBL)
- ---- hardback
- --- hardback
CambridgeUniversityPresshasnoresponsibilityforthepersistenceoraccuracyofs
forexternalorthird-partyinternetwebsitesreferredtointhispublication,anddoesnot
guaranteethatanycontentonsuchwebsitesis,orwillremain,accurateorappropriate.
P1:KAE
0521846315pre CUNY360B/Pulkkinen 0521846315 May8,2006 20:37
Contents
ListofContributors page xiii
Preface xv
Introduction 1
RichardJ.Rose
TwoComplementaryFinnishResearchStudies 1
WhyLongitudinalResearch? 3
WhyTwinResearch? 10
FinlandasaResearchSettingforLongitudinalResearch 16
AnOverviewoftheBook 23
parti. longitudinalandbehavioralgenetic
approaches 27
1 TheJyva¨skyla¨ LongitudinalStudyofPersonality
andSocialDevelopment(JYLS) 29
LeaPulkkinen
Introduction 29
SocioemotionalBehaviorinChildhood 30
DevelopmentThroughAdolescence 35
DevelopmentThroughAdulthood 43
Summary 54
2 GeneticandEnvironmentalInfluencesonSocial
BehaviorandHealth 56
RichardJ.Rose
Introduction 56
vii
P1:KAE
0521846315pre CUNY360B/Pulkkinen 0521846315 May8,2006 20:37
viii Contents
DifferentialSusceptibility 57
SelectiveExposure 61
GeneticEffectsonBehavior:TwinParentsandTheir
Families 63
DocumentingEnvironmentalEffectsonBehavior 66
ParentingandChildren’sOutcomes 70
Conclusions 74
3 SocialBehaviorsandHealthinTwins:TheFinnTwin
Studies 76
JaakkoKaprio
Introduction 76
StudyCohorts 77
In-DepthStudiesofSubsamples 83
ABriefOverviewoftheAnalysisofTwinData 86
ProspectsforTwinResearchinthePost-GenomicEra 90
partii. adolescenthealth-relatedbehavior
andadulthealth 93
4 BodySizeandOverweightFromBirthtoAdulthood 95
Marja-LiisaKinnunen,KirsiPietila¨inen,andAilaRissanen
Introduction 95
BodySizeatDifferentAges 97
TrackingofBodySizeFromBirthtoAdulthood 99
GeneticandEnvironmentalEffectsontheTracking 103
Conclusions 106
5 PubertalDevelopmentandHealth-RelatedBehavior 108
DanielleM.DickandBrianS.Mustanski
Introduction 108
MeasuringPubertalDevelopment 110
CausesofVariationinPubertalDevelopment 112
ConsequencesofVariationinPubertalDevelopment 115
ModeratorsoftheRelationshipBetweenPubertal
DevelopmentandOutcome 122
Conclusions 124
6 GeneticandEnvironmentalInfluencesontheInitiation
andContinuationofSmokingandDrinking 126
DanielleM.Dick,SatuBarman,andTuuliPitka¨nen
Introduction 126
TheInitiationofSubstanceUse 127
TheContinuedUseofSubstances 138
Conclusions 144