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

描述（改编自申请人的摘要）：拟议的项目是一个 对参加实验的249个家庭进行了6年随访 评估离婚儿童预防方案。 评价 包括三个随机分配的条件;一个母亲只计划， 一个包括单独的母亲和孩子组成部分和一个 自学，指导阅读条件。 干预措施针对 药物支持的风险和保护因素（假定的介质），以及 都被很好地实现了，并且具有高度的保真度。 参与者保留率 是优秀的，并进行了多代理，多方法评估。 对测试后即刻和短期随访数据的分析显示， 对靶向假定介质的积极影响，以及 儿童的心理健康状况。 尽管有几项研究 显示出类似的即时和短期心理健康收益， 针对离婚儿童的预防干预措施，研究人员没有 然而，积极的计划效果是否会持续到青春期。 长期随访对这一人群尤为重要， 离异家庭的孩子出现问题的风险更高 在青春期正常增长。 建议的项目有四个具体目标： 持续的程序影响行为和心理健康问题， 青春期;检查在6岁时获得的计划效果 后续行动是通过改善推定的介导剂， 研究长期干预效果的调节因素; 并测试替代理论模型，其中压力情境 因素、母子关系变量和儿童特征 在儿童时期评估的精神健康结果与 青春期 多方法、多主体评估内化和 外化问题以及行为和精神问题， 儿童时期，但在青春期更普遍将进行。 青少年、母亲、（继父）和教师将完成 问卷数据;母亲和青少年将参与解决问题 录像互动;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、结构性 方程建模和生存分析将被用来测试 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.