Serious Youth Violence & Long-term Use of Violent Media

严重的青少年暴力

基本信息

批准号：
7117257
负责人：
L ROWELL HUESMANN
金额：
$ 28.85万
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：
2004
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
2004-09-30 至 2007-09-29
项目状态：
已结题

项目摘要

The overarching goal of the proposed research is to advance our understanding of how exposure to and engagement in violent media relates to severe aggressive, violent, and criminal behavior in childhood, adolescence, and adulthood. Specifically, we will explore the role of prior exposure to media violence on subsequent serious aggressive and violent behavior in the following populations: Incarcerated juvenile delinquents residing in county and state facilities; juvenile delinquents enrolled in county day treatment and diversion programs; preschool and kindergarten students attending schools in socioeconomically disadvantaged communities; high school seniors attending schools in similarly disadvantaged communities; incarcerated violent and nonviolent adult offenders residing in a state penitentiary; and two normative groups of individuals enrolled in long-term prospective longitudinal studies that began when the individuals were in middle childhood and since have continued into middle adulthood. The proposed investigation will target several specific aims: 1) First, we will examine the association between serious violent and criminal behavior in adolescent delinquent and young adult criminal populations and their concurrent and prior exposure to violent media. 2) Second, we will investigate the association between violent and potentially criminal behavior in at-risk youth populations and their concurrent and prior exposure to violent media. 3) Third, using two existing longitudinal data sets, we will study the long-term prediction of early and middle adulthood violent and criminal behavior from childhood exposure to violent media. 4) Fourth, within each of our samples, we will analyze the individual, contextual, viewing, and programming factors likely to moderate the strength of the relation between exposure to media violence and serious violent behavior. 5) Finally, we will investigate the over-time mediation of aggressive and violent behavior by social-cognitive factors linked to exposure to violent media. The results of this investigation will contribute critical information to our understanding of the relation between childhood, adolescent, and adult media violence exposure and concurrent and subsequent serious aggression, violence, antisocial and criminal behaviors.

拟议研究的总体目标是加深我们对接触和参与暴力媒体与儿童、青少年和成年时期的严重攻击性、暴力和犯罪行为之间的关系的理解。具体来说，我们将探讨以下人群中先前接触过媒体暴力对随后发生严重攻击性和暴力行为的作用：居住在县和州设施中的被监禁的青少年罪犯；少年犯参加县日治疗和转移计划；在社会经济弱势社区上学的学前班和幼儿园学生；在类似弱势社区上学的高中生；居住在州立监狱中的被监禁的暴力和非暴力成年罪犯；两组规范的个体参加了长期前瞻性纵向研究，这些研究从个体童年中期开始，一直持续到成年中期。拟议的调查将针对几个具体目标：1）首先，我们将研究青少年犯罪和青年犯罪人群中严重暴力和犯罪行为与他们同时和之前接触暴力媒体之间的关联。 2) 其次，我们将调查高危青少年群体中的暴力和潜在犯罪行为与他们同时和之前接触暴力媒体之间的关联。 3）第三，利用现有的两个纵向数据集，我们将研究成年早期和中期的长期预测童年接触暴力媒体造成的暴力和犯罪行为。 4) 第四，在我们的每个样本中，我们将分析可能调节媒体暴力暴露与严重暴力行为之间关系强度的个人、背景、观看和节目因素。 5）最后，我们将研究与接触暴力媒体相关的社会认知因素对攻击性和暴力行为的长期中介作用。这项调查的结果将为我们理解儿童、青少年和成人媒体暴力曝光与同时发生和随后发生的严重攻击、暴力、反社会和犯罪行为之间的关系提供重要信息。