Mechanisms of Alcohol-Facilitated Intimate Partner Violence

酒精引发的亲密伴侣暴力的机制

• 批准号: 8471031
• 负责人: Christopher I Eckhardt
• 金额: $ 48.64万
• 依托单位: GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2012
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2012-06-01 至 2017-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8471031
• 关键词: Acute; Address; Affect; Affective; Aggressive behavior; Alcohol consumption; Alcoholic Beverages; Alcoholic Intoxication; Alcoholic beverage heavy drinker; Alcohols; Anger; Attention; Beverages; Clinical Research; Cognitive; Communities; Cues; Data; Etiology; Exposure to; Female; Foundations; Goals; Heavy Drinking; High Prevalence; Impaired cognition; Incidence; Intervention; Investigation; Knowledge; Laboratories; Laboratory Study; Link; Measures; Mediating; Mediator of activation protein; Modeling; Participant; Pattern; Persons; Physical aggression; Procedures; Process; Public Health; Randomized; Reaction; Recording of previous events; Recruitment Activity; Relative (related person); Research; Research Personnel; Risk; Sampling; Semantics; Stimulus; Testing; Translating; Violence; Woman; alcohol effect; alcohol intervention; base; design; effective intervention; high risk; in vivo; intimate partner violence; male; men; partner violence; prevent; theories; therapy design; therapy development

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Intimate partner violence (IPV) is a critical public health problem that requires clear and testable etiological models that may translate into effective interventions. Given that acute alcohol intoxication and a pattern of heavy alcohol consumption are among the most robust correlates of IPV perpetration, etiological models of how alcohol facilitates aggression are critical to intervention development. However, an abundance of research has focused on moderators of the alcohol-IPV link while devoting much less empirical study to the specific affective and cognitive mediators of this relation. This limitation prevents research from developing and testing theoretically-based interventions design to reduce alcohol-facilitated IPV. The goals of the proposed research are to (1) test a mediational model of alcohol-facilitated IPV etiology, and (2) evaluate mechanisms of change via a theory-based manipulation that will inform IPV interventions for at- risk men and women. These goals will be achieved in two overarching laboratory studies. The objective of Study 1 is to examine whether specific affective (e.g., anger, negative affect) and cognitive processes (i.e., attention allocation, hostile rumination) mediate the effect of alcohol on aggression toward intimate partners. The objective of Study 2 is to examine whether a theory-based intervention manipulation will reduce alcohol- related aggression via these mechanisms. To examine these objectives, we will recruit males and females at high risk for IPV (based upon prior histories of partner violence and heavy alcohol use) from the greater Atlanta, GA and Indianapolis, IN communities. Participants in Study 1 will (a) be randomly assigned to receive either an alcohol or a control beverage, (b) be provoked by their intimate partner, (c) complete a measure of attention allocation, and (d) participate in a laboratory aggression paradigm in which they ostensibly can aggress toward their intimate partner. Procedures will allow for concurrent assessment of participants' physical aggression and cognitive and affective reactions. Study 2 will entail identical procedures, with the two exceptions that all participants (a) will receive an alcoholic beverage, and (b) be randomly assigned to a control or intervention condition posited to redirect attention away from provoking cues and toward self-relevant information. The most important contribution of the proposed laboratory-based project will be to test theoretically-based manipulations designed to reduce alcohol-related IPV. In doing so, this project will provide the necessary empirical foundation for clinical research to translate these approaches directly into real-world interventions.

描述（由申请人提供）：亲密的伴侣暴力（IPV）是一个关键的公共卫生问题，需要清晰可检验的病因模型，可以转化为有效的干预措施。鉴于急性酒精中毒和大量饮酒模式是IPV犯罪的最牢固相关性，因此酒精如何促进侵略性的病因模型对于干预发展至关重要。然而，大量的研究集中在酒精-IPV环节的主持人上，同时将经验研究少得多，对这种关系的特定情感和认知介体。这种限制阻止了研究和测试基于理论上的干预措施设计，以减少饮酒的IPV。拟议的研究的目标是（1）测试酒精采用IPV病因的中介模型，以及（2）通过基于理论的操纵来评估变化机制，该操作将为AT风险男性和女性提供信息。这些目标将在两项总体实验室研究中实现。研究1的目的是检查特定的情感（例如愤怒，负面情感）和认知过程（即 注意分配，敌对反省）介导酒精对亲密伴侣的侵略性的影响。研究2的目的是检查基于理论的干预操作是否会通过这些机制减少与酒精相关的攻击。为了审查这些目标，我们将从社区中招募IPV高风险的男性和女性（基于伴侣暴力和大量饮酒的先前历史）。研究1的参与者将（a）随机分配接受酒精或对照饮料，（b）由其亲密伴侣挑衅，（c）完成一定的注意力分配，（d）参与实验室侵略范式，在表面上，他们可以侵略其亲密伙伴。程序将允许对参与者的身体侵略以及认知和情感反应的同时评估。研究2将需要相同的程序，除两个例外，所有参与者（a）将收到一个 酒精饮料和（b）被随机分配到对照或干预条件中，以重定向注意力从挑衅的提示和自我相关的信息转移。该拟议的基于实验室项目的最重要贡献是测试旨在减少酒精相关IPV的理论操作。为此，该项目将为临床研究提供必要的经验基础，以将这些方法直接转化为现实世界的干预措施。