Misbehaving teens at risk for adulthood problems?

The current article that I just recently read is an argument about the connection behavioral problems during your teenage years may have with the development of mental and personal problems during adulthood. The study was published in the British Medical Journal and a national survey of health and development from the Medical Research Council. The study called for the observation of more than 3500 people, which started with the initial observation around the age of 13 or 15. Problematic behaviors included disobedience, lying, restlessness, daydreaming during school, and poor behavior towards discipline. This study is a fact of a claim. The researchers included evidence like this to show that indeed there just might be a connection with the two. They also concluded that even those that were studied that showed even mild behavioral issues also had a poor outcome during adulthood. More than 1000 of these adolescents who showed this less severe behavioral issues increased the likelihood of divorce, alcohol abuse, and overall life adversity. These results do not necessarily mean that behavioral problems during the years of adolescence will cause complications later in life, but the connection may in fact be due to underlying factors, such as mental illness, or negative environment that does the change over time.

This article can be found at: http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/01/09/adolescent.behavior/index.html