CHILDREN OF DIVORCE--6-YR FOLLOWUP OF PREVENTIVE EFFORTS

描述（改编自申请人的摘要）：拟议的项目是 对参与实验的 249 个家庭进行 6 年跟踪 对离婚儿童预防计划的评估。 评价 包括三个随机分配的条件；仅限母亲的计划， 联合计划，其中涉及单独的母亲和儿童部分以及 自学、引导阅读的情况。 干预措施的目标 经验支持的风险和保护因素（假定的中介因素）和 并以高度的保真度得到了很好的实施。 参与者保留 非常好，并且进行了多主体、多方法评估。 对立即测试后和短期随访数据的分析显示 对目标假定调解者以及对 儿童的心理健康结果。 尽管多项研究表明 表现出类似的直接和短期心理健康收益 研究人员尚未针对离婚儿童采取预防性干预措施 尚未解决积极的计划效果是否持续到青春期。 鉴于 离婚的孩子出现问题的风险更高 在青春期通常会增加。 拟议项目有四个具体目标： 持续的计划对行为和心理健康问题的影响 青春期；检验第6年是否取得了计划效果 后续行动是通过改进假定的中介因素来介导的 干预；检查长期干预效果的调节因素； 并测试替代的理论模型，其中压力背景 因素、母子关系变量和儿童特征 儿童期评估与心理健康结果前瞻性相关 青春期。 内化和多主体评估 外化问题以及行为和心理问题是罕见的 儿童期但在青春期更为普遍。 青少年、母亲、（继）父亲和教师将完成 问卷数据；母亲和青少年将参与解决问题 互动录像；档案数据将从学校收集 记录。 协方差分析、潜在增长曲线建模、结构分析 方程模型和生存分析将用于测试 具体目标。

DESCRIPTION (Adapted from applicant's abstract): The proposed project is a 6 year follow-up of 249 families who participated in an experimental evaluation of a prevention program for children of divorce. The evaluation included three randomly assigned conditions; a mother-only program, a combined program which involved separate mother and child components and a self-study, guided reading condition. The interventions targeted empirically-supported risk and protective factors (putative mediators) and were well-implemented with a high degree of fidelity. Participant retention was excellent, and multiagent, multimethod assessments were conducted. Analyses of immediate posttest and short-term follow-up data revealed positive effects on the targeted putative mediators, as well as on children's mental health outcomes. Although several studies have demonstrated similar immediate and short-term mental health gains for preventive interventions targeting children of divorce, researchers have not yet addressed whether positive program effects persist into adolescence. Long-term follow-up is particularly important for this population, given that children of divorce are at an elevated risk for developing problems that normatively increase during adolescence. The proposed project has four specific aims: to examine whether there are persistent program effects on behavioral and mental health problems during adolescence; to examine whether program effects obtained at the 6 year follow-up are mediated by improvement on the putative mediators targeted in the intervention; to examine moderators of long term intervention effects; and to test alternative theoretical models in which stressful contextual factors, mother-child relationship variables, and child characteristics assessed in childhood are prospectively linked to mental health outcomes in adolescence. Multimethod, multiagent assessments of internalizing and externalizing problems and behavioral and mental problems that are rare in childhood but more prevalent during adolescence will be conducted. Adolescents, mothers, (step)fathers, and teachers will complete questionnaire data; mothers and adolescents will engage in problem-solving videotaped interactions; archival data will be collected from school records. Analyses of covariance, latent growth curve modeling, structural equation modeling, and survival analyses will be employed to test the specific aims.