PREDICTORS OF RELATIONSHIP VIOLENCE IN INNER CITY YOUTH

描述：（改编自研究者摘要）：本研究 关注关系的预测因子、促发因子和后遗症 青少年中的暴力事件 它建立在一个 为期四年的社区、家庭和同伴风险纵向研究 市中心青少年男性反社会行为的预测因子。 通过 增加了两个额外的采访，这些人，他们的女性伴侣， 年龄、种族和居住地相似的其他女性，我们可以 追踪亲密关系中暴力的起因 此外， 民族志的情况和条件，是催化剂， 关系暴力是为了告知纵向的重点， 定量研究 这项研究的重点是社会成员中最有风险的严重 反社会和暴力行为，因暴力而过早死亡， 关系暴力的风险增加。 然而，这一人口规模巨大， 被忽视和误解 目前缺乏针对以下问题的研究： 这一年龄段是发展健全的风险和预防的关键 战略布局 本研究将提供所需的多水平、多变量数据 关于风险的主要决定因素，风险因素与 理论上的争论，以及社区之间的一致性， 和性别群体。 从生态角度看待风险因素， 从交易的角度看风险发展，这项研究可以提供所需的 澄清作为许多预防工作重点的成果， 具体说明突出的易感性和突发风险因素， 行为序列，并澄清关系暴力如何与其他 暴力和反社会行为。 此外，它还可以提供一些 关于合作伙伴如何促进 暴力关系的形成，这种态度和做法如何可能是 在青春期后期形成，以及这些贡献的变化， 性别和种族群体。 366个家庭的样本，平均92% 从一波又一波的保留，已经被跟踪了四次年度访谈 有了前期资金。 在最后一波试验中，106名男孩 据报道，一段浪漫关系持续了至少三个月， 这些人报告在这种关系中使用暴力。 使用雪球抽样 我们将邀请年轻人的浪漫伴侣参与 以及伴侣的其他女性朋友，以获得 两年 将对40名青年进行人种学研究。

DESCRIPTION: (Adapted From The Investigator s Abstract): This study focuses on the predictors, precipitants, and sequelae of relationship violence among inner-city late- adolescents. It builds on data from a four-year longitudinal study of the community, family, and peer, risk predictors of antisocial behavior among inner-city adolescent males. By adding two additional interviews with these men, their female partners, and additional females of similar age, ethnicity, and residence location we can trace the antecedents of violence in intimate relationships. Also, an ethnography of situations and conditions that are the catalysts for relationship violence is undertaken to inform the focus of the longitudinal quantitative research. This study focuses on the members of society most at-risk for serious antisocial and violent behavior, premature death due to violence, and with elevated risk for relationship violence. However, this population is vastly understudied and misunderstood. There is a dearth of studies focused on this age period that is critical for developing sound risk and prevention strategies. This study will provide needed multi-level, multi-variate data on the primary determinants of risk, the consistency of risk factors with theoretical contentions, and the consistency across communities, and ethnic and gender groups. Applying an ecological perspective on risk factors and a transactional perspective on risk development, this study can provide needed clarification of outcomes that are the focus of many preventive efforts, specify the salient predisposition and precipitating risk factors and behavioral sequences, and clarify how relationship violence relates to other violence and general antisocial behavior. In addition, it can provide some of the first detailed information on how partners contribute to the formation of violent relationships, how such attitudes and practices may be formed during late adolescence, and the variations of such contributions by gender and across ethnic groups. A sample of 366 families, with 92% average retention from wave to wave, have been followed for four annual interviews with prior funding. At the last wave, in a pilot for this study, 106 boys reported a romantic relation that lasted at least three months and 1/3 of those reported using violence in that relationship. Using snowball sampling methods we will solicit participation by the young men's romantic partners and additional female friends of the partners to obtain parallel data over two years. 40 youth will be followed in an ethnographic study.