This study examined the unique longitudinal effects linking academic competence, social competence, and internalizing symptoms from childhood to adulthood. A multimethod and multi-informant approach was used to assess psychopathology and competence in 205 participants during four developmental periods. Social competence in childhood had a cascading effect on internalizing symptoms in adolescenc...

OBJECTIVES There are at least three conceptual models for the effects of the childhood social environment on adult health: the critical period model, the social mobility model, and the cumulative risk model. However, few studies have investigated all three different models within the same setting. This study aims to examine the impact of childhood and adulthood socioeconomic positions and inter...

Abstract Many adolescents in Ethiopia face difficulties successfully transitioning to healthy adulthood. This can stem from challenges experienced by two unique phenomenon: ‘early adulthood’ where are forced into adult responsibilities too early; and ‘waithood’ unable obtain the foundations they need move paper uses lens of these opposing explore adolescents’ ability transition adulthood examin...

BACKGROUND The mechanisms underlying socioeconomic inequalities in mortality from cardiovascular diseases (CVD) are largely unknown. We studied the contribution of childhood socioeconomic conditions and adulthood risk factors to inequalities in CVD mortality in adulthood. METHODS The prospective GLOBE study was carried out in the Netherlands, with baseline data from 1991, and linked with the ...

Abstract Little is known about how minor sex exchange (MSE) may impact violence victimization during adulthood. This study investigates potential associations between MSE and forms of interpersonal in young adulthood, while controlling for additional experienced childhood adolescence. Data from The National Longitudinal Study Adolescent to Adult Health ( n = 11,500 ) were used this analysis. Mu...

Youth exposure to violence, criminal activities and deviant peer affiliation may impact overall development and the transition into adulthood. Low income African American youth are disproportionately exposed to chronic stressors, but little is known about how they conceptualize challenges and success once they enter adulthood. We examine how low incomes African Americans reflect on exposure to ...

While theoretical studies have stressed the lifelong development of father involvement, little is known about how fathers experience and describe their parenting children from childhood to adulthood. We interviewed 93 Swedish in late adulthood these issues address identified research gap. Our thematic analysis generated a set core aspects fathers’ sense that they were persistent adulthood, name...