ArticleJournal of criminal justice
Anxiety, Depression, and Offending in the Columbia County Longitudinal Study: A Prospective Analysis from Late Adolescence to Middle Adulthood.
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- Bidirectional Relationships between Adolescent Aggression and Mental Health Conditions: Longitudinal Evidence from Secondary School Students in China.Journal of youth and adolescence · 2025Article
- Exploring the relationship between depression and delinquency: a sibling comparison design using the NLSY.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Article
- Mental distress and substance use among rural Black South African youth who are not in employment, education or training (NEET).The International journal of social psychiatry · 2023Article
- Mental and Physical Health, Psychosocial Maturity, and Desistance in Young Adulthood.Journal of developmental and life-course criminology · 2023Article
- Materialism, Egocentrism and Delinquent Behavior in Chinese Adolescents in Mainland China: A Short-Term Longitudinal Study.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Positive University Environment and Agreeableness as Protective Factors Against Antisocial Behavior in Mexican University Students.Frontiers in psychology · 2021Article
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Abstract
purposeWe use data from a community sample, the Columbia County Longitudinal Study, which followed participants from childhood through adulthood, to examine the longitudinal relations between mental health (serious anxiety and serious depression) and offending across three waves of data collection (ages 19, 30, and 48).
methodParticipants were from the Columbia County Longitudinal Study (436 males and 420 females). The youth, their parents, and peers were first interviewed when the youth were age 8; the youth were later interviewed at ages 19, 30, and 48.
resultsWe found significant longitudinal relations from offending to experiencing subsequent severe anxiety and weaker longitudinal relations from experiencing severe anxiety to subsequent offending. For the relation between offending and severe depression, we found similar but somewhat weaker longitudinal associations. Cross-lagged longitudinal structural modelling analyses controlling for the continuity of offending, anxiety, and depression and for family socio-economic status and education were conducted to test the plausibility of alternative causal effects.
conclusionsThe analyses suggest that it is more plausible to conclude that offending is stimulating serious anxiety and depression than to conclude that anxiety and depression are stimulating offending. These results mirror what has been found previously about general aggressive behaviour.
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