Children and Political Violence in Northern Ireland

北爱尔兰的儿童和政治暴力

• 批准号: 8072583
• 负责人: EDWARD MARK CUMMINGS
• 金额: $ 57.28万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2005
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2005-06-06 至 2013-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8072583
• 关键词: Address; Adolescent; Affect; Age; Alcohol abuse; Area; Child; Child Development; Communities; Conflict (Psychology); Data; Development; Ecology; Emotional; Ethnic group; Exposure to; Family; Family Violence; Focus Groups; Functional disorder; Gender; Health; Home environment; International; Interview; Investigation; Link; Measures; Mediator of activation protein; Mental Health; Modeling; Mothers; Neighborhoods; Northern Ireland; Parents; Pathway interactions; Personal Satisfaction; Phase; Predictive Value; Process; Protestant; Recording of previous events; Regulation; Request for Applications; Research; Risk; Sampling; Schedule; Security; Social Environment; Social Identification; Social support; Testing; Time; Violence; War; Work; aged; base; innovation; microsystems; peace; psychologic; segregation; social

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The effects on children of political violence, and links with community and domestic conflict, are matters of international concern. The mechanisms by which political (i.e., ethnic) conflict and community violence (criminal, sectarian) relate to the family, and, in turn, children's well-being and development are little understood. Children are at risk regardless of formal accords, which may or may not last, as long as sectarianism and segregation between ethnic groups remain. This proposal is to continue investigation of a social ecological model for the effects of political violence on children. The longitudinal sample consists of 700 working class families in Catholic and Protestant areas of Belfast, Northern Ireland. In Phase 1 both mothers and children were interviewed in their home on all aspects of this model (i.e., political, community, family, child regulation and adjustment). Preliminary analyses support the social ecological perspective. A second wave of data will be collected in 2007-2008. Given the unique sample, and the promise of initial model testing, this application requests support to continue to follow this sample for three more waves, spaced one year apart, towards better elucidating the mechanisms, pathways, and conditions underlying associations between political tension and child maladjustment over time. This is a unique opportunity for studying dynamic change processes in these multiple and interrelated contexts over time, with implications for understanding change processes affecting children. Phase 2 is needed to more adequately test and examine the explanatory and predictive value of this perspective, and provides a unique opportunity to study continuity and change in contexts of political violence affecting children and adolescents. This research thus will contribute to understanding of ecological, psychological, and familial processes underlying effects of ethnic conflict in Northern Ireland on children and adolescents, with implications for other regions of the world with histories of ethnic conflict and political violence. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: This study will contribute to understanding of ecological, psychological, and familial processes underlying effects of ethnic conflict in Northern Ireland on children, providing a template for study of the impact of children's exposure to sectarian violence worldwide. More generally, understanding of relations between community violence, family functioning, adolescents' regulatory processes, and adolescent adjustment will be uniquely advanced.

描述（由申请人提供）：对政治暴力儿童的影响以及与社区和家庭冲突的联系是国际关注的问题。政治（即种族）冲突和社区暴力（犯罪，宗派）的机制与家庭有关，进而对儿童的福祉和发展却几乎没有理解。不论正式的协议如何，只要族裔主义和种族群体之间的隔离，儿童就会处于危险之中。该建议是继续调查政治暴力对儿童的影响的社会生态模型。纵向样本由北爱尔兰贝尔法斯特天主教和新教地区的700个工人阶级家庭组成。在第1阶段，母亲和儿童在他们的家中都接受了该模型的各个方面（即政治，社区，家庭，儿童调节和调整）的采访。初步分析支持社会生态学观点。第二波 数据将于2007 - 2008年收集。鉴于独特的样本以及初始模型测试的承诺，该应用程序要求支持继续跟随此样本进行三波，相距一年，以更好地阐明政治紧张与儿童之间关联之间的机制，途径和条件随着时间的流逝，病情不良。随着时间的流逝，这是在这些多个和相互关联的环境中研究动态变化过程的独特机会，对了解影响儿童的变化过程的影响。需要第2阶段以更充分地测试和研究这种观点的解释性和预测价值，并为研究影响儿童和青少年的政治暴力行为的连续性和变化提供了独特的机会。因此，这项研究将有助于理解北爱尔兰种族冲突对儿童和青少年的生态，心理和家庭过程的理解，这对世界其他地区具有种族冲突和政治暴力历史，对世界其他地区产生影响。公共卫生相关性：这项研究将有助于了解北爱尔兰种族冲突对儿童的生态，心理和家庭过程的理解，从而为儿童在全球范围内暴露于宗派暴力的影响提供了一个模板。更普遍地，了解社区暴力之间的关系，家庭 功能，青少年的监管过程和青少年调整将是独特的。