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Young Adult Substance Use and Depression as a Consequence of Delinquency Trajectories during Middle Adolescence
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Wiesner, Margit; Windle, Michael – Journal of Research on Adolescence, 2006
This longitudinal study extended work from Wiesner and Windle (2004) by examining young adult outcomes (i.e., alcohol and illicit drug use, depression) of middle-adolescent trajectories of delinquent behavior for a community sample of 724 young women and men (at average ages 23.8 years). Each domain of young adult adjustment problems was assessed…
Descriptors: Drug Use, Young Adults, Adolescent Development, Depression (Psychology)
A Study of Friendship Characteristics and Problem Behaviors among Middle Adolescents.
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Windle, Michael – Child Development, 1994
Examined individual differences in friendship characteristics and their cross-sectional and longitudinal interrelations with adolescent problems. Assessed four salient friendship characteristics: reciprocity of relations, overt hostility, covert hostility, and self-disclosure. Suggests that adolescent problem behaviors have a more potent…
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Adolescents, Behavior Problems, Cross Sectional Studies
Interparental Discord and Adolescent Adjustment Trajectories: The Potentiating and Protective Role of Intrapersonal Attributes.
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Davies, Patrick T.; Windle, Michael – Child Development, 2001
Examined whether associations between marital discord and trajectories of adolescent depression and delinquency varied as a function of intrapersonal attributes. Found that difficult temperament potentiated effects of marital discord on adjustment trajectories. Heightened perceived family support protected adolescents from adverse marital discord…
Descriptors: Adolescent Attitudes, Adolescent Development, Adolescents, Behavior Problems
Middle Adolescents' Dating Pathways and Psychosocial Adjustment.
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Davies, Patrick T.; Windle, Michael – Merrill-Palmer Quarterly, 2000
Studied interrelationships between dating patterns and trajectories of psychosocial functioning over a year in middle adolescents. Found that increasing casual dating was associated with rising problem behaviors and improved close friendship quality; pathways culminating in steady relationships were accompanied by increasing friendship discord,…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Adolescent Behavior, Adolescent Development, Adolescents
A Longitudinal Study of Stress Buffering for Adolescent Problem Behaviors.
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Windle, Michael – Developmental Psychology, 1992
In a study of middle adolescents, the interrelationships between stressful events, perceived social support, internalization of problems, and externalization of problems were examined. Social support did not act as a buffer of stress. Stressful events and low family support predicted problem behaviors for adolescent girls. (BC)
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Behavior Problems, Delinquency, Depression (Psychology)
Gender-Specific Pathways between Maternal Depressive Symptoms, Family Discord, and Adolescent Adjustment.
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Davies, Patrick T.; Windle, Michael – Developmental Psychology, 1997
Examined relations among maternal depressive symptoms, family discord, and adolescent psychological adjustment. Found that maternal depressive symptoms were related to subsequent adolescent depressive symptoms, conduct problems, and academic difficulties for girls but not boys. Girls' greater vulnerability to family discord accounted for the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adolescent Development, Adolescents, Behavior Problems