ADOLESCENT OUTCOME OF PHYSICALLY ABUSED SCHOOL CHILDREN

描述（改编自申请人摘要）：本研究旨在 评估青春期前的身体状况在青春期中后期的结果 虐待和匹配的非虐待儿童谁目前正在研究 9-12岁。 需要评估的成果领域包括：（1）全球 适应，以及更具体的领域（2）心理健康，（3）学术 功能，（4）风险行为，（5）攻击/犯罪，（6）个人 关系。 对于每一种情况，研究人员都提出了一个模型， 研究了从青春期前身体虐待到青春期结果的路径 关于各种调解因素假设保护 或加剧滥用的影响。 这些调解人，选择在 根据以前对受虐待儿童的研究和其他数据， 儿童发展文献，都是在青春期之前测量的。 他们被概念化为个体（例如，孩子的心理健康， 社会行为，社会理解），交易（例如，社会地位 在同伴之间、依恋、养育），以及上下文（例如，家庭逆境， 精神病理学（Psychopathology） 每个模型都重新测试， 青少年前暴露于家庭暴力和社区暴力， 儿童虐待（作为因果变量）。 这些被推荐作为研究对象的孩子在他们还是青少年时 由100个确认的身体虐待案件组成， 儿童福利管理员登记册和100名未受虐待的同学 按性别、年龄、种族和社会经济地位逐一匹配。 他们被 现在通过课堂社会测量和同伴评估在青春期前 行为评级，通过个别儿童访谈，由教师和家长 行为评级，并通过家长访谈和家庭问卷调查 人口统计、逆境、家庭冲突，包括家庭暴力，以及 关于父母管教的实践。 拟议的成果评估， 尽可能接近17岁，将通过青少年进行 访谈和问卷调查，教师和家长访谈， 问卷调查，以及访谈和问卷调查管理的最佳 每个青少年的朋友 并非所有受虐待的儿童都有不良后果，但作为一个群体，他们是 明显处于危险之中。 这项研究的主要目的是确定一些 影响从滥用到结果的途径的重要因素， 针对可能的点，在那里对儿童进行干预可能会避免一些 滥用的代价高昂的个人和社会后果。

DESCRIPTION (Adapted from applicant's abstract): This study is designed to assess the outcomes in mid to late adolescence of preadolescent physically abused and matched non-maltreated children who are currently being studied at ages 9-12 years. The outcome domains to be assessed are (1) Global adjustment, and the more specific domains of (2) Mental health, (3) Academic functioning, (4) Risk behavior, (5) Aggression/Delinquency, and (6) Personal relationships. For each, the investigators propose a model in which the path from pre-adolescent physical abuse to adolescent outcome is examined with respect to a variety of mediating factors hypothesized to protect against or exacerbate the effects of the abuse. These mediators, chosen on the basis of the previous studies of abused children and on other data in the child development literature, are all measured prior to adolescence. They are conceptualized as individual (e.g., the child's mental health, social behavior, social understanding), transactional (e.g., social status among peers, attachment, parenting), and contextual (e.g., family adversity, maternal psychopathology). Each of the models is retested as well with preadolescent exposure to family violence and community violence added to child abuse (as the causal variable). The children that are being proposed for study when they are adolescents consist of 100-confirmed cases of physical abuse recruited form the NYC Child Welfare Administrator Register and 100 non-maltreated classmates matched case by case for gender, age, ethnicity, and SES. They are being assessed now in preadolescence by means of classroom sociometry and peer behavior ratings, by individual child interviews, by teacher and parent ratings of behavior, and by parent interviews and questionnaires on family demographics, adversity, family conflict, including domestic violence, and on parenting discipline practices. The proposed assessments of outcome, as close as possible to age 17, will be carried out by means of adolescent interviews and questionnaires, teacher and parent interviews and questionnaires, and an interview and questionnaire administered to a best friend of each adolescent. Not all abused children have poor outcomes, but as a group, they are demonstrably at risk. The study's main purpose is to identify some important factors influencing the path from abuse to outcome and thereby to target possible points where intervention in childhood might avert some of abuse's costly individual and societal consequences.