Serious Youth Violence & Long-term Use of Violent Media

严重的青少年暴力

• 批准号: 6860897
• 负责人: L ROWELL HUESMANN
• 金额: $ 29.98万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN AT ANN ARBOR
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 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
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/6860897
• 关键词: adolescence (12-20); aggression; antisocial personality; behavior prediction; behavioral /social science research tag; clinical research; cooperative study; correctional institutions; criminal behavior; data collection methodology /evaluation; developmental psychology; early experience; human subject; interview; juvenile delinquency; longitudinal human study; mass information media; middle childhood (6-11); outcomes research; social psychology; socioeconomics; socioenvironment; television; videotape /videodisc; violence; young adult human (21-34)

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.

拟议的研究的总体目标是促进我们对暴力媒体的暴露和参与如何与童年，青春期和成年后的严重侵略性，暴力和犯罪行为有关的理解。具体来说，我们将探讨事先接触媒体暴力行为对以下人群中随后的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少年犯罪者；参加县日治疗和转移计划的少年犯罪；学龄前和幼儿园的学生就读于社会经济处于弱势社区的学校；高中生在同样处于弱势社区的学校上学；居住在州监狱中的被监禁的暴力和非暴力成年罪犯；以及两个人的规范性群体参加了长期前瞻性纵向研究，这些研究始于个体处于中年，此后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年轻成年犯罪人口中严重的暴力和犯罪行为与他们并发和事先接触暴力媒体之间的关联。 2）第二，我们将调查高危青年人口中的暴力和潜在犯罪行为与他们并发和事先接触暴力媒体之间的关联。 3）第三，使用两个现有的纵向数据集，我们将研究早期和成年期的长期预测 童年时期暴露于暴力媒体的暴力和犯罪行为。 4）第四，在我们的每个样本中，我们将分析个人，上下文，观看和编程因素，可能会减轻暴露于媒体暴力和严重暴力行为之间关系的强度。 5）最后，我们将通过与暴力媒体接触的社会认知因素进行对侵略性和暴力行为的加班调解。这项调查的结果将为我们理解童年，青少年与成人媒体暴力暴露以及并发以及随后的严重侵略，暴力，反社会和犯罪行为的理解提供关键信息。