ABSTRACT
The Concordia Longitudinal Risk Project, begun in 1976, was designed to address the following question: What are the childhood behaviors and developmental paths that lead to major psychosocial problems in adolescence and adulthood? As our sample reaches its late teens to middle 20s, we are now beginning to address a second major issue: Are patterns of psychopathology transferred across generations, and, if so, can we identify the mechanism or socialization process from parent to child? In this report, we focus on the adjustment of socially atypical children during their adolescent years, and present preliminary results regarding the “transfer” of high-risk status from the girls in our sample who have now become mothers to their own young children.
