EXPOSURE TO CHRONIC COMMUNITY VIOLENCE AND ITS CONSEQUENCES

遭受长期社区暴力及其后果

• 批准号: 5211739
• 负责人: BETH S ROSENTHAL
• 金额: --
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 至
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/5211739
• 关键词: adolescence (12-20); clinical research; crime victims; criminal behavior; data collection methodology /evaluation; experience; human population study; human subject; physical fitness; posttraumatic stress disorder; psychological stressor; public health; questionnaires; social behavior; social behavior disorders; social problems; social psychology; socioenvironment; statistics /biometry; urban area; violence

The goals of the proposed research are; 1) to establish the differential incidence and prevalence of experience with chronic community violence in an inner-city population of adolescents; 2) to describe the psychological trauma, behavioral and physical illness sequelae of this experience with chronic community violence; and 3) to discover psychosocial factors that may mitigate these consequences by either a) reducing athe likelihood of exposure to violence, or b) buffering and modulating the impact of such exposure. The research will use self-report survey-style procedures for collecting data from a moderate sized (approximately 1,600 over a four year period), socially heterogeneous, conveniently available, sample of older adolescents in New York City. Measurements of host exposure, consequent and moderating variables will be made using multi-item additive scales which reflect underlying latent variables. These scales will have face- content validity for reflecting the latent variables, and internal consistency reliabilities (Chronbach's alpha) in the neighborhood of .80. The research will use primarily multivariate correlational research design to test hypotheses; and will employ relatively conventional multivariable statistical techniques found in SPSS. The general hypotheses to be tested are; 1) exposure to chronic community violence is widespread among inner- city adolescents; 2) the degree of exposure is a function of socio- demographic characteristics; 3) inner-city adolescents have a relatively high level of psychological trauma symptoms; 4) the level of psychological trauma symptoms is a curvilinear function of the level of exposure to violence; 5) the level of exposure to violence is negatively related to selected behavioral variables, namely, performance in school and persistence in school; 6) the level of physical illness symptoms is positively related to the level of exposure to violence; and 7) certain "resiliency" or "protective" factors, such as having a sympathetic adult friend or feeling in control of life's experiences, have a moderating effect on the impact of exposure to chronic community violence.

拟议研究的目标是： 1）建立差异 慢性社区暴力经验的发生率和流行率 青少年的城市内部人口； 2）描述心理 这种经历的创伤，行为和身体疾病的后遗症 慢性社区暴力； 3）发现社会心理因素 可以通过a）降低可能的可能性来减轻这些后果 暴露于暴力，或b）缓冲和调节这种影响 接触。 该研究将使用自我报告调查风格的程序 从适度的大小（四年内约1,600个）收集数据 时期），社会异质，方便，样本的较旧样本 纽约市的青少年。 宿主暴露的测量，因此 并且将使用多项目添加量表进行调节变量 反映了潜在的潜在变量。 这些秤将有脸 - 用于反映潜在变量的内容有效性和内部 .80附近的一致性可靠性（Chronbach的Alpha）。 该研究将主要使用多元相关研究设计 检验假设；并将采用相对传统的多变量 SPSS中发现的统计技术。 一般假设要测试 是; 1）在内部 - 城市青少年； 2）暴露程度是社会的函数 人口特征； 3）内城青少年有一个相对的 高水平的心理创伤症状； 4）心理水平 创伤症状是暴露水平的曲线函数 暴力; 5）暴力暴露水平与 选定的行为变量，即学校的表现和 学校的持久性； 6）身体疾病症状的水平是 与暴露水平的正相关； 7）确定 “弹性”或“保护性”因素，例如具有同情成人 朋友或控制生活经历的感觉，有一个温和的 对暴露于慢性社区暴力的影响的影响。