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

简介(改编自申请人的摘要)：建议的项目是 249个参加实验的家庭6年随访 评估一项针对离婚子女的预防计划。评估 包括三个随机分配的条件；仅限母亲的程序、 综合计划，包括单独的母子组件和一个 自学，导读条件。有针对性的干预措施 经验支持的风险和保护因素(假定的中介因素)和 都以高度的保真度很好地实施了。参与者留存 是优秀的，并进行了多代理、多方法评估。 对即刻后测和短期随访数据的分析显示 对目标推定调解人以及对 儿童的心理健康结果。尽管有几项研究已经 显示出类似的直接和短期心理健康收益 针对离婚儿童的预防性干预，研究人员尚未 但问题是积极的项目效应是否会持续到青春期。 长期的随访对这一人群尤其重要，因为 离婚后的孩子出现问题的风险更高 这在青春期会正常增加。 拟议的项目有四个具体目标：检查是否有 持续的项目对行为和心理健康问题的影响 青春期；检查计划在6岁时是否取得效果 后续行动是通过改进#年目标的假定调解人来实现的 干预措施；检查长期干预效果的调节因素； 并测试替代理论模型，在这些模型中，应激背景与 影响因素、母子关系变量与儿童特征 儿童时期的评估预期与以下方面的心理健康结果有关 青春期。内化和内化的多方法、多代理评估 外部化问题以及行为和心理问题在 将进行儿童时期但更普遍的青春期的研究。 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 视频互动；档案数据将从学校收集 唱片。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 明确的目标。

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.