@article{2181,
  author = {Jay Fagan and Natasha Cabrera and Julia Kobulsky},
  title = {Longitudinal associations between early risk and adolescent delinquency: Mediators, moderators, and main effects},
  abstract = {<p>Although multiple domains of risk are theorized to predict adolescent delinquency, father-specific risk in the context of other risks is under-researched. Using the low-income Future of Families and Child Wellbeing cohort (48\% Black, 27\% Hispanic, 21\% White, 51\% boy, N = 4,255), the current study addressed three research questions. (1) are father-, mother-, child-, and family-level cumulative risk during early childhood associated with adolescent delinquent behavior?, (2) does child self-control in middle childhood mediate the associations between fathers{\textquoteright} and mothers{\textquoteright} cumulative risk and adolescent delinquent behavior, and do quality of parent{\textquoteright}s relationships with children and parental monitoring in middle childhood mediate the association between child cumulative risk and delinquent behavior?, (3) do parenting, quality of parent-child relationships in middle childhood, and child sex at birth moderate the associations among fathers{\textquoteright}, mothers{\textquoteright}, children{\textquoteright}s, and family risk and adolescent delinquent behavior? Results indicated father, child, and mother risk at ages 3-5 were significantly and positively associated with youth-reported delinquent behavior. Higher levels of family risk were associated with less delinquency when 9-year-olds felt closer to fathers than when they felt less close. Children{\textquoteright}s self-control at age 9 mediated the associations between father and child risk and delinquent behavior.</p>
},
  year = {2024},
  journal = {Development and Psychopathology},
  pages = {1-15},
  url = {https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38111971/},
}