Developmental pathways linking childhood temperament with antisocial behavior and substance use in adolescence : explanatory mechanisms in the peer environment
Temperament, peer social processes and antisocial behavior & substance use
Article [Version acceptée]
Fait partie de
Journal of personality and social psychology ; vol. 112, no 6, p. 948-966.Éditeur·s
American Psychological AssociationRésumé·s
This study investigated three developmental pathways involving the peer environment that may
explain how certain temperamental dispositions in childhood may become manifested in later
antisocial behavior and substance use. A total of 411 (52% boys) Canadian children were
followed annually from ages 6 to 15 years. The study tested whether the temperamental traits
approach, negative reactivity and attention (assessed at ages 6-7 years), were associated with
overt antisocial behavior, covert antisocial behavior and illicit substance use (assessed at ages
14-15 years), via poor social preference among peers, inflated social self-perception and
antisocial behavior of peer-group affiliates (assessed throughout ages 8-13 years). Results
indicated that negative reactivity was indirectly associated with overt antisocial behavior and
substance use via poor social preference. Specifically, negative reactivity in earlier childhood
predicted poor social preference in later childhood and early adolescence. This poor social
standing among peers, in turn, predicted more engagement in overt antisocial behavior but less
substance use in later adolescence. Over and above the influence of social preference, negative
reactivity predicted engagement in all three outcomes via children’s antisocial behavior in
childhood and early adolescence. Inflated social self-perception and antisocial behavior of peergroup
affiliates did not mediate the link between temperament and the outcomes under scrutiny.
No sex differences in developmental pathways from temperament to the outcomes were found.
To further our understanding of the developmental link between childhood temperament and later antisocial behavior and substance use, we need to recognize the role of peer environmental
factors, specifically poor preference among peers.
Autre·s localisation·s
Ce document diffusé sur Papyrus est la propriété exclusive des titulaires des droits d'auteur et est protégé par la Loi sur le droit d'auteur (L.R.C. (1985), ch. C-42). Il peut être utilisé dans le cadre d'une utilisation équitable et non commerciale, à des fins d'étude privée ou de recherche, de critique ou de compte-rendu comme le prévoit la Loi. Pour toute autre utilisation, une autorisation écrite des titulaires des droits d'auteur sera nécessaire.