The impact of a family-centered intervention on the ecology of adolescent antisocial behavior: Modeling developmental sequelae and trajectories during adolescence
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This study used an experimental, longitudinal field trial involving random assignment to the Family Check-Up (FCU) to explore the social ecology of adolescent antisocial behavior. A sample of 998 youths and their families was followed from early to late adolescence (age 12 to 18–19). In the intervention condition, 115 families (23%) elected to receive the FCU. In general, random assignment to the FCU in middle school was associated with reductions in late adolescence antisocial behavior (age 18–19). Variable-centered analyses revealed that the effects were mediated by reductions in family conflict from early to middle adolescence (age 12–15). The link between family conflict and antisocial behavior in turn was mediated by association with deviant peers at age 17; parental monitoring at age 17 was also influential but did not attain the status of a mediator. Person-oriented analyses suggested that the FCU was associated with declining trajectories of family conflict and rising trajectories of parental monitoring but was not associated with trajectories of deviant peer association. A dual-trajectory analysis indicated that the pathways to adolescent antisocial behavior were myriad and varied, suggesting new directions for developmental and intervention research.
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The Family Check-Up reduced conflict in families of youth entering high school, which reduced involvement with deviant peers, and this mediated reduced externalizing problems up to seven years later.
“the Family Check-Up, a brief, motivation-based parenting program, reduced conflict in families of youth in transition to high school, which reduced involvement with deviant peers, and this in turn mediated program effects to reduce externalizing problems up to seven years later (12).”
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- Authors
- Van Ryzin, M. J., & Dishion, T. J.
- Affiliations
- University of Oregon (US)
- ORCID
- Dishion, Thomas J.
- Venue
- Development and Psychopathology
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press (CUP)
- Published
- 2012-07-11
- Volume
- 24
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 1139-1155
- ISSN
- 0954-5794 (ISSN-L)
- 1469-2198
- PMC
- PMC3395237
- OpenAlex
- W2120907470
- Cited by
- 80
- References
- 83
- Citations by year
- 2026: 2 · 2025: 2 · 2024: 2 · 2023: 4 · 2022: 3 · 2021: 2 · 2020: 1 · 2019: 4 · 2018: 5 · 2017: 4 · 2016: 21 · 2015: 12 · 2014: 8 · 2013: 8 · 2012: 2
- FWCI
- 10.86
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
- Locations
- Development and Psychopathology (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
- Funders
- National Institute of Mental Health (T32MH020012, T32 MH20012)
- National Institute on Drug Abuse (DA07031, P30DA018760, R01DA007031, R37DA007031, DA018760, R01DA013773, DA13773)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Crime Patterns and Interventions
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Psychosocial Factors Impacting Youth
- Keywords
- adolescent antisocial behavior, Family Check-Up, family-centered intervention, family conflict, deviant peer affiliation, parental supervision, social ecology, developmental trajectories, mediation, family intervention
- MeSH terms
- Adolescent, Adolescent Behavior, Antisocial Personality Disorder, Family Therapy, Female, Humans, Longitudinal Studies, Male, Peer Group, Treatment Outcome, Conduct Disorder, Adolescent Development, Young Adult
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