Effects on children of persistent exposure to extreme political violence

持续接触极端政治暴力对儿童的影响

基本信息

批准号：
7282073
负责人：
L ROWELL HUESMANN
金额：
$ 38.4万
依托单位：
UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN AT ANN ARBOR
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
财政年份：
2006
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
2006-09-15 至 2011-07-31
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7282073
关键词：
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项目摘要

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The overarching goal of the proposed research is to advance our understanding of how persistent and extreme exposure to political conflict and violence combines with cognitive, emotional, and self processes to influence the psychosocial adjustment and mental health of children. In the proposed investigation, we will study those processes in two linked samples: Israeli (Jewish and Arab) and Palestinian children living in the conflicted areas of Israel and Palestine. We propose to conduct extensive interview assessments on three cohorts of children and their parents drawn from populations of both Palestinian-Arab and Israeli (Jewish and Arab) families beginning when the children are 8, 11, and 14 years old and concluding when the children are, respectively, 11, 14, and 17 years old. We will implement a cohort-sequential prospective longitudinal design. This design will permit us to analyze the ways in which ecological contexts marred by constant ethnic and political conflicts and frequent eruptions of politically motivated violence affect children's psychosocial adjustment from the critical developmental period of middle childhood through middle adolescence. The design of the proposed project also permits us to study the contextual and individual predictors and correlates of problematic and healthy developmental pathways under extremely adverse ecological conditions. Thus, we can examine the influence of an ongoing politically violent context on the emergence and maintenance of cognitions, emotional styles, and self-identity processes that contribute to the development of enduring patterns of behavioral adjustment and mental health. Additionally, we will explore the ways in which family and peer relationships serve to moderate and mediate associations between exposure to political violence and child adjustment, and examine transactional relations between the behavior of parents and their children under politically violent conditions. Our investigation is guided by five principal aims: 1) We will investigate the psychosocial and mental health consequences of exposure to persistent and extreme political violence to the normal development of children, at different ages, by gender, and across different socio-cultural contexts; 2) We will examine the relations between exposure to persistent political violence and three sets of individual factors that potentially could mediate or moderate those relations: cognitive beliefs (e.g., normative beliefs about general aggression and aggression targeted at outgroup members), emotion regulation styles (e.g., anger control), and self-identity processes (e.g., self worth); 3) We will investigate whether individual differences among children in our sample in exposure to extreme political violence are associated with exposure to other forms of violence, including non-political violence in the community, domestic violence, and school violence; 4) We will examine the potential mediating and moderating effects of parent-child relationships on the relation between exposure to political violence and child adjustment; and 5) We will examine the potential mediating and moderating effects of peer relationships on the association between exposure to political violence and child adjustment.

描述（由申请人提供）：拟议研究的总体目标是加深我们对持续和极端的政治冲突和暴力与认知、情感和自我过程相结合如何影响儿童的心理社会调整和心理健康的理解。在拟议的调查中，我们将研究两个相关样本的这些过程：生活在以色列和巴勒斯坦冲突地区的以色列（犹太人和阿拉伯人）和巴勒斯坦儿童。我们建议对来自巴勒斯坦阿拉伯人和以色列（犹太人和阿拉伯人）家庭的三组儿童及其父母进行广泛的访谈评估，从孩子 8 岁、11 岁和 14 岁开始，到孩子 14 岁时结束。，分别为 11 岁、14 岁和 17 岁。我们将实施队列序贯前瞻性纵向设计。这一设计将使我们能够分析持续的种族和政治冲突以及频繁爆发的政治暴力所破坏的生态环境如何影响儿童从童年中期到青春期中期的关键发展时期的社会心理调整。拟议项目的设计还使我们能够研究极端不利的生态条件下有问题的和健康的发育途径的背景和个体预测因素以及相关性。因此，我们可以研究持续的政治暴力环境对认知、情感风格和自我认同过程的出现和维持的影响，这些过程有助于行为调整和心理健康的持久模式的发展。此外，我们将探讨家庭和同伴关系如何调节和调解政治暴力与儿童适应之间的联系，并研究政治暴力条件下父母与其子女行为之间的交易关系。我们的调查以五个主要目标为指导：1）我们将调查持续和极端政治暴力对不同年龄、性别和不同社会文化背景的儿童正常发展的社会心理和心理健康影响； 2）我们将研究持续的政治暴力与可能调解或缓和这些关系的三组个人因素之间的关系：认知信念（例如，关于一般攻击性和针对外群体成员的攻击性的规范性信念）、情绪调节风格（例如，愤怒控制）和自我认同过程（例如，自我价值）； 3）我们将调查样本中遭受极端政治暴力的儿童的个体差异是否与遭受其他形式的暴力（包括社区非政治暴力、家庭暴力和校园暴力）有关； 4）我们将考察亲子关系对政治暴力暴露与儿童适应之间关系的潜在中介和调节作用； 5）我们将研究同伴关系对政治暴力暴露与儿童适应之间关系的潜在中介和调节作用。