The purpose of this paper is to investigate how adolescent arrest and correctional confinement impact psychosocial development during the transition to adulthood.,The research uses a US-based sample of 12,100 youth in junior and high school and again in early adulthood. Factor analyses determine measurement of psychosocial maturity (PSM) and subsequently compare baseline and subsequent psychosocial development in a multivariate framework for males and females.,Findings show that net of socio-demographic and delinquency-related controls, all three groups have similar baseline psychosocial measures pre-confinement but by early adulthood (ages 18–25) there are significant differences between the two justice-involved groups for multiple measure of psychosocial well-being, net of any differences at baseline. Differences are exacerbated for females.,Results suggest the need for juvenile correctional facilities to incorporate programming that allows juveniles to build psychosocial skills through activities that mirror typical adolescent responsibilities, behaviors and tasks.,The authors compare PSM development for three groups of adolescents: non-justice-involved youth, youth who were arrested but not confined before age 18 (arrested non-confined), and delinquent youth who served time in out-of-home correctional placement before age 18 (confined) to compare development and changes in psychosocial development over time. Further, the authors examine the interaction of gender and confinement to explore if the context of confinement disrupts PSM development differently for females.

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背景很重要：少年教养所和社会心理发展

本文的目的是调查在成年过渡期间青少年逮捕和矫正禁闭如何影响心理社会发展。这项研究使用了美国初中和高中以及成年早期的12100名青年样本。因子分析确定了心理社会成熟度（PSM）的度量，并随后在一个多变量的男性和女性框架中比较了基线和随后的社会心理发展。研究结果显示，在社会人口统计学和与犯罪相关的控制方面，三组的基线心理社会测量指标均相似产前禁闭，但到成年早期（18-25岁），在涉及社会心理福祉的多种衡量指标的两个司法参与组之间，存在基线之间的任何差异，两者之间存在显着差异。女性之间的差异更加严重。结果表明，青少年教养设施需要纳入计划，以使青少年能够通过反映典型的青少年责任，行为和任务的活动来建立心理社会技能。作者比较了三组青少年的PSM发展：非司法参与的青年，青年谁在18岁之前被捕但不受拘禁（不拘禁），以及在18岁之前在户外矫正场所工作的犯罪青少年（被拘禁）比较一段时间内的发展和社会心理发展的变化。此外，作者考察了性别与分娩的相互作用，以探讨分娩的环境是否对女性的PSM发育产生了不同的影响。