An Ecologically-Valid Intervention for Men's Intoxicated Aggression Toward Women

针对男性对女性的醉酒攻击行为的生态有效干预措施

• 批准号: 8127386
• 负责人: Kathryn Elise Gallagher
• 金额: $ 4.18万
• 依托单位: GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2011
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2011-04-01 至 2013-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8127386
• 关键词: Academia; Accounting; Address; Advertisements; Affect; Aggressive behavior; Alcohol consumption; Alcoholic Beverages; Alcoholic Intoxication; Alcohols; Area; Attention; Clinical Skills; Cognition; Cognitive; Collaborations; Communities; Data; Development; Environment; Feeling; Female; Foundations; Future; Gender; Gender Role; Goals; Heavy Drinking; Injury; Intervention; Laboratories; Laboratory Research; Literature; Masculine; Measures; Mediating; Methodology; Minority; Modeling; Outcomes Research; Participant; Patient Self-Report; Physical aggression; Population; Prevention Research; Prevention program; Procedures; Public Health; Questionnaires; Randomized; Recording of previous events; Recruitment Activity; Relative (related person); Reporting; Research; Research Personnel; Risk; Sampling; Scientist; Security; Self Perception; Simulate; Stimulus; Stress; Students; Testing; Thinking; Time; Treatment outcome; Universities; Violence; Woman; Work; alcohol intervention; assault; base; breath alcohol measurement; career; community setting; distraction; effective intervention; eligible participant; innovation; intervention effect; male; men; perpetrators; theories

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The overarching goal of this application is to advance a programmatic line of research investigating interventions for alcohol-related aggression toward underrepresented populations (e.g., women, sexual minorities) to serve as the foundation for a career in academia as an independent research scientist. The impetus for the proposed project is to address a call in the literature to test theoretically-based, ecologically- valid interventions for men's alcohol-related aggression toward women. It is well established that alcohol is a contributing cause of men's aggression toward women. However, only recently has research demonstrated that cognitively focused manipulations (e.g., cognitive distraction) are effective at reducing alcohol-related aggression. From these studies, researchers have proposed ecologically-valid interventions for alcohol-related aggression. However, before these interventions can be utilized in real-world settings (e.g., a bar), laboratory research must be conducted to test (1) whether these interventions are associated with less aggression toward women, (2) the cognitive mechanisms that account for this effect , and (3) in whom such an intervention will have the greatest impact. These limitations are significant barriers to the development of effective interventions for men's alcohol-related aggression toward women and speak to the critical need for data to inform the direction of prevention programming in this area. To address this need, the proposed study seeks to investigate the following specific aims: (1) the effect of a theoretically-based intervention on intoxicated at- risk men's physical aggression and cognitions toward a female confederate following a gender-relevant provocation from that female, (2) the impact of masculine gender role stress in this relation, and (3) whether men's cognitions mediate the interactive effect of the intervention and masculine gender role stress on intoxicated men's aggression. To address these aims, 74 heavy drinking men with a recent history of physical aggression toward women will present to the laboratory for two sessions to occur on two separate days. During session 1, participants will complete several self-report questionnaires. During session 2, participants will be randomly assigned to complete the study in a room equipped (or not equipped) with salient stimuli shown to inhibit aggression (e.g., mirrors, self-awareness slogans, security cameras), consume an alcoholic beverage that results in a BrAC of at least .08%, and receive a gender-relevant provocation from a female confederate. Directly thereafter, participants will complete the Taylor Aggression Paradigm which will directly measure their physical aggression toward the female confederate. Upon completion, participants will be asked via closed-circuit intercom to "talk out loud" about their thoughts and feelings into a microphone using a modified version of the Articulated Thoughts in Simulated Situations Paradigm. It is expected that these findings will inform and provide the impetus for future prevention research in the area of alcohol-related aggression that will serve to decrease this serious public health concern. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: The proposed research is relevant to public health because it will provide the first data toward the construction of a theoretically-based, ecologically-valid intervention for at-risk men's alcohol- related aggression toward women. It is well established that alcohol is a contributing cause of men's aggression toward women which affects approximately 25% of women during their lifetime (NVAWS; Tjaden & Thoennes, 2000). We expect that findings from this study will inform and provide the impetus for future prevention research in this area that will serve to decrease this serious public health malady.

描述（由申请人提供）：本申请的总体目标是促进一系列研究线研究，调查与酒精相关的侵略人群的干预措施（例如妇女，性少数群体），以作为作为独立研究科学家的学术界职业的基础。拟议项目的动力是解决文献中的呼吁，以测试理论上基于生态的，有效的干预措施，以对男性对妇女的酒精相关侵略。众所周知，酒精是男性对女性侵略的原因。但是，直到最近才研究表明，认知浓缩的操作（例如，认知分散注意力）有效地减少与酒精相关的侵略性。从这些研究中，研究人员提出了与酒精相关攻击的生态涉及干预措施。但是，在将这些干预措施用于现实世界中（例如，酒吧）之前，必须进行实验室研究以测试（1）这些干预措施是否与对妇女的侵略性较小有关，（2）涉及这种效果的认知机制，以及（3）这样的干预措施将产生最大的影响。这些局限性是对男性对妇女酒精相关的侵略有效干预措施发展的重大障碍，并谈到了对数据的关键需求，以告知该领域的预防计划方向。为了满足这一需求，拟议的研究试图调查以下具体目的：（1）基于理论上的干预对男性的身体侵略性和对女性的认知的影响，在该女性的性别相关的挑衅之后，对女性同盟的认知影响（2）（2）玛斯胰岛素的性别作用在这种关系中的作用和（3）的影响（3）是否在coction效应和（3）的作用，以及（3），以及（3），是否会在coction中造成分化的影响。强调陶醉的男人的侵略。为了解决这些目标，有74名重型饮酒男子最近对妇女进行身体侵略的历史将在实验室出现，以进行两次会议，这两天。在第1节期间，参与者将填写几项自我报告问卷。在第2节期间，将随机分配参与者在配备（或未配备）的房间内完成研究，并具有显着的刺激，以抑制侵略性（例如，镜子，自我意识口号，安全摄像头），可以消耗酒精饮料，从而消耗至少0.08％的BRAC，并获得了0.08％的brac，并获得了一个男性征收的女性征收。此后，参与者将完成泰勒的侵略范式，该范式将直接衡量其对女性同盟的身体攻击。完成后，将通过闭路对讲来要求参与者在模拟情况范式中使用修改后的明确思想“大声谈论他们的思想和感受”到麦克风中。预计这些发现将为与酒精有关的侵略领域的未来预防研究提供信息，并为减少这种严重的公共卫生关注的侵略性。 公共卫生相关性：拟议的研究与公共卫生有关，因为它将为建造基于理论上的生态胜利干预措施提供第一个数据，以实现对处于危险中的男性与妇女相关的侵略。众所周知，酒精是男性对女性侵略的原因，这在一生中影响了约25％的女性（NVAWS； Tjaden＆Thoennes，2000年）。我们希望这项研究的发现将为这一领域的未来预防研究提供信息，并为减少这种严重的公共卫生疾病而进行预防研究。