ABSTRACT The Northern Finland Birth Cohort 1986 is a large population-based birth
cohort, which aims to promote health and wellbeing of the population. In this paper, we …

Early exposure to multiple risk factors has been shown to predict criminal offending, but the
mechanisms responsible for this association are poorly understood. Integrating social …

Purpose: This study examined a developmental model that links affect-regulation difficulties
in childhood with three dimensions of alexithymia in adolescence (difficulty identifying …

Children and adolescents exposed to multiple contextual risks are more likely to have
academic difficulties and externalizing behavior problems than those who experience fewer …

This study examined associations between cumulative contextual risk in childhood and
depression diagnosis in early adulthood, testing two adolescent mediating mechanisms …

There is a positive association between parental alcohol use and the alcohol use of their
offspring. It is less clear whether this relation exists at different developmental periods. The …

Background and Objectives Substance use in community college students has been
explored in only a handful of studies. Differences in population characteristics and …

Problem-behavior theory suggests problem behaviors (eg substance use and delinquency)
cluster among adolescents. This study explored a second-order problem behavior model of …

Background: Exposure to cumulative contextual risk within the family early in life increases
children's risk for substance involvement and related difficulties, including school failure, in …

A growing number of researchers, practitioners, and policy-makers from criminology and
criminal justice, social work, medicine, psychiatry and psychology, and other health science …