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Beyond early years versus adolescence: The interactive effect of adversity in both periods on life-course development.
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Developmental scholars, parents, and policymakers alike have long heralded the opening years of life as disproportionately influential. Recent work on adolescence has revealed, however, greater influence of these later years-but without considering how experience during these two periods interact. We address this issue by studying adverse experiences (e.g., parental divorce, incarceration) measured at ages 0-5 years and 13-18 years on problematic development at 18-19 years (e.g., criminal behavior, disconnection from school and work) on 363,444 Danish siblings. Given multiple possible interaction patterns, no predictions were advanced. The extent to which adverse experiences in early childhood impact future problematic development depends on level of adversity experienced in adolescence: Only when exposure to adversity in adolescence was limited did greater early life adversity predict poorer future outcomes. Otherwise, adolescent adversity swamped effects of early life adversity. Results are discussed in terms of the design and context of the research. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2021 APA, all rights reserved).
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Metadata
- Authors
- Andersen, S. H., Steinberg, L., & Belsky, J.
- Affiliations
- Rockwool Foundation (DK)
- Temple University (US)
- University of California, Davis (US)
- Venue
- Developmental Psychology
- Published
- 2021-11
- Volume
- 57
- Issue
- 11
- Pages
- 1958-1967
- ISSN
- 0012-1649 (ISSN-L)
- 1939-0599
- OpenAlex
- W4200546597
- Cited by
- 27
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
- 2026: 4 · 2025: 5 · 2024: 12 · 2023: 4 · 2022: 2
- FWCI
- 3.08
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Developmental Psychology (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Child Abuse and Trauma
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Crime Patterns and Interventions
- Keywords
- childhood adversity, adolescent adversity, life course development, early childhood, adolescence, parental divorce, parental incarceration, criminal behavior, interaction effects
- MeSH terms
- Adolescent, Child Development, Child, Preschool, Humans, Infant, Infant, Newborn, Parents, Schools, Siblings
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