Short-term mindsets show co-development with adolescent delinquency, but not with adolescent cannabis use.
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Guided by General Theory of Crime and Psychosocial Maturity Hypothesis, we investigated co-development between short-term mindsets (impulsivity and future orientation) and risk behaviors (cannabis use and delinquency). Parallel process latent growth modeling on three-wave data from ethnically diverse Swiss adolescents (N = 1365; Mage 13.67 years, 48.6% female), showed baseline-level associations between short-term mindsets and risk behaviors, and between the two risk behaviors. Additionally, correlated change (co-development) existed between short-term mindsets-particularly impulsivity-and delinquency, but not between short-term mindsets and cannabis use. These results support the above-mentioned theories and emphasize the importance of investigating the correlates of change in delinquency and cannabis use separately, as divergent findings might emerge. These divergent findings could partially stem from Switzerland's liberal views on cannabis use.
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Publication status: Published
Funder: The Jacobs Center (JC); doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/100006726
Funder: Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung; doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100001711
Funder: Jacobs Foundation; doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100003986
Funder: The Swiss State Secretariat for Migration and its predecessors
Funder: Swiss Federal Office of Public Health
Funder: Canton of Zurich Ministry of Education
Funder: Julius Baer Foundation
Funder: The Visana Foundation
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1532-7795
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Swiss National Science Foundation (10FI14_198052)