The ABCD-Social Development Study: Current Findings

Session Submission Type: Complete Thematic Panel

Abstract/Description

The ABCD-Social Development Study (ABCD-SD) is a prospective delinquency and victimization substudy to the nationwide Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development Study (ABCD). The ABCD-SD includes 2,426 individuals and their caregivers at SD baseline (average age 11.6 years). ABCD-SD is in its sixth year of data collection, launching Wave 7 in the fall of 2024.

The ABCD-SD addresses key questions in criminological and substance use studies which currently cannot be addressed in other longitudinal studies. One of the advantages of SD is the linkage to ABCD Study data, including biannual MRIs starting at age 9-10. The ABCD-SD study measures: delinquency, victimization, and dispositional constructs, delinquency, victimization; and their relationships in the context of brain development, environmental factors, and protective factors.

This panel provides an overview of initial analyses on ABCD-SD data regarding delinquency, neurobiological measures, and psychometrics including (1) tobacco use and its relationship to early trauma, (2) the relationship between striatal tissue iron and the cessation or desistance of juvenile delinquency, and (3) caregiver and child coherence in longitudinal studies.

The results from the study will be discussed considering the future of longitudinal studies, emphasizing the need to build in social justice perspectives permeating research designs, data collection, and analyses.

Sub Unit

• Area II. Perspectives on Crime / 2. Developmental and Life Course Perspectives

Individual Presentations

• Traumatic Stress Exposure as a Predictor of Early Tobacco Use: Testing for Cognitive Mediation Effects - Thomas Wojciechowski, Michigan State University

• Characterizing Longitudinal Trajectories in Juvenile Delinquency in the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development – Social Development (ABCD-SD) Cohort - Ashley C. Parr, University of Pittsburgh

• Parenting, Gender, and Race: Effects on Correspondence of Parent-Child Event Reporting - Lia Ahonen, University of Pittsburgh

Chairs

• Benjamin Adams, National Institute of Justice

• Lia Ahonen, University of Pittsburgh

Discussant

• Henrika McCoy, University of Denver

Organized by a Division or external group?

National Institute of Justice (NIJ Day)