Family Strengths in Preventing Adolescent Drug Use

预防青少年吸毒的家庭优势

• 批准号: 7141840
• 负责人: Brenda A Miller
• 金额: $ 46.42万
• 依托单位: PACIFIC INSTITUTE FOR RES AND EVALUATION
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2006
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2006-09-01 至 2009-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7141840
• 关键词: adolescence (12-20); alcoholism /alcohol abuse prevention; behavioral /social science research tag; child rearing; clinical research; culture; disease /disorder proneness /risk; drug abuse prevention; family structure /dynamics; gender difference; human subject; interview; longitudinal human study; maternal behavior; parent offspring interaction; paternal behavior; peer group; psychological values; religion

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Risk, resiliency, and protective factors identified by prior research are important constructs for prevention of adolescents' use of alcohol and other drugs. These constructs remain relatively robust through the adolescent years in predicting AOD use. However, there is a need to explore more carefully how parents and older adolescents perceive and implement the risk, resiliency and protective factors. The major goals of this study are to build upon prior research by bringing more in-depth understandings to behaviors related to the existing risk, resilience, and protective constructs. Our specific aims are as follows: Specific Aim 1: For older adolescents, to illustrate and categorize descriptive accounts of parental/family actions of each of the risk, protective, and resilience constructs identified in the existing models for adolescent AOD use (e.g., parental monitoring, disciplinary practices, parenting management style, family bonding, family rituals, religiousness, availability/access). Specific Aim 2: To compare the descriptive accounts provided by parents and older adolescents of the constructs in Specific Aim 1 and to determine the overlap (between parents/adolescents) and to examine the differences in thematic content expressed by parents and adolescents when the target adolescent is female vs. male. Specific Aim 3: To "map" these qualitative findings to the existing instruments that measure these constructs. Qualitative interviews (that include some closed-ended questions) will be conducted with 100 families (both parents and one 16-17 year old adolescent). This sample will be drawn from a prior funded study that sampled adolescents and parents and with data from three prior waves regarding adolescent AOD use, and closed-ended questions on families. This study is significant because qualitative research can provide rich or "thick" descriptive responses that participants give to open-ended questions and provide a real world view of life as they experience it. We are proposing that there may be different nuances that have emerged in the risk, resilience, and protective constructs. We are also proposing that in-depth explorations could give richer meaning to our existing measures, even if we discover, that we need not change a particular measure to actually provide us with our measurement models we are investigating. This information would substantively contribute to the practical world by providing new information for family prevention programs by providing: (1) A better understanding of how varied the content of these parental behaviors are; 2) How differently the adolescent and the parents perceive these behaviors; 3) How this content of parental behaviors dynamically interact between parents and adolescents.

描述（由申请人提供）：先前研究确定的风险、弹性和保护因素是预防青少年使用酒精和其他药物的重要组成部分。在整个青少年时期，这些结构在预测 AOD 使用方面仍然相对稳健。然而，需要更仔细地探索父母和年龄较大的青少年如何看待和实施风险、弹性和保护因素。这项研究的主要目标是在先前研究的基础上，通过更深入地了解与现有风险、弹性和保护结构相关的行为。我们的具体目标如下： 具体目标 1：对于年龄较大的青少年，对青少年 AOD 使用的现有模型中确定的每个风险、保护性和复原力结构的父母/家庭行为的描述性说明进行说明和分类（例如，父母监督、纪律实践、养育管理方式、家庭纽带、家庭仪式、宗教信仰、可用性/访问）。具体目标 2：比较父母和年龄较大的青少年对具体目标 1 中的结构提供的描述性说明，确定重叠（父母/青少年之间），并检查当目标青少年是女性与男性。具体目标 3：将这些定性发现“映射”到测量这些结构的现有工具。将对 100 个家庭（父母双方和一名 16-17 岁青少年）进行定性访谈（包括一些封闭式问题）。该样本取自一项先前资助的研究，该研究对青少年和家长进行了抽样调查，并使用了之前三波有关青少年 AOD 使用和家庭封闭式问题的数据。这项研究意义重大，因为定性研究可以提供参与者对开放式问题的丰富或“厚实”的描述性回答，并提供他们所经历的生活的真实世界观。我们建议风险、弹性和保护结构中可能出现不同的细微差别。我们还建议，深入的探索可以为我们现有的衡量标准赋予更丰富的意义，即使我们发现，我们不需要改变特定的衡量标准来实际为我们提供我们正在研究的衡量模型。这些信息将为家庭预防计划提供新的信息，从而对现实世界做出实质性贡献：(1) 更好地了解这些父母行为的内容有多么多样化； 2）青少年和父母对这些行为的看法有何不同； 3）父母行为的内容如何在父母和青少年之间动态互动。