Resilience in adolescence: Prospective Self moderates the association of early life adversity with externalizing problems.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Early life adversity (ELA) can result in negative behavioral outcomes, including internalizing and externalizing problems. Evidence suggests that adolescence is a critical developmental period for processing ELA. Identity formation, which is crucial to this developmental period, may moderate the effect between ELA and these problems. One potential moderating variable associated with identity formation is the latent construct Prospective Self, comprised of future-oriented attitudes and behaviors.

Methods

Participants are from the first wave of an ongoing longitudinal study designed to characterize behavioral and cognitive correlates of risk behavior trajectories. A community sample of 10th and 12th grade adolescents (N = 2017, 55% female) were recruited from nine

SUBMITTER: Zinn ME 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7269197 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature