Minority Postdoctoral Research Fellowship

这个为期两年的博士后研究奖学金将使沃德博士有机会在加州大学洛杉矶分校教育学院接受培训。 她的研究生工作一直在社会心理学，她的研究兴趣集中在儿童对男女关系的理解，特别是性。 在她的博士后工作中，她将研究电视上的性内容，青少年的性别角色概念，以及他们的性观念和行为之间的联系。 博士后研究将包括收集有关青少年电视使用的数据，开发新的实证措施评估电视内容的使用和解释，并与复杂的统计模型合作。 她还将获得传播理论的理解，这将大大提高她的理论基础。 教育学院对研究应用的重视将为她提供所需的基础，使她的研究更直接地与真实的世界联系起来。 虽然人们常常认为，青少年对电视上的性内容的消费与他们的性观念和性行为有关，但对这种联系的经验支持却很少，而且不一致。 这个博士后研究是试图提供这些问题的综合研究。

This two year fellowship for postdoctoral study will allow Dr. Ward the opportunity to obtain training in the School of Education at UCLA. Her graduate work has been in social psychology and her research interests have centered on children's understanding of male-female relations in general and sexuality in particular. For her postdoctoral work she will be examining associations between sexual content on television, adolescents' gender-role concepts, and their sexual conceptions and behaviors. The postdoctoral research will include collecting data about television use among adolescents, developing new empirical measures assessing use and interpretation of television content, and working with complex statistical models. She will also obtain an understanding of communication theories which will greatly enhance her theoretical foundation. The School of Education's emphasis on research applications will give her the foundation she needs to link her research more directly to the real world. Although it has frequently been assumed that adolescents' consumption of sexual content on television relates to their conceptions of sexuality and to their sexual conduct, empirical support for this link has been sparse and inconsistent. This postdoctoral research is an attempt to provide a comprehensive study of these issues.