SOCIAL RELATIONSHIPS OF ABUSED SCHOOL CHILDREN

受虐待学童的社会关系

• 批准号: 3388436
• 负责人: SUZANNE R SALZINGER
• 金额: $ 34.24万
• 依托单位: NEW YORK STATE PSYCHIATRIC INSTITUTE DBA RESEARCH FOUNDATION FOR MENTAL HYGIENE, INC
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 1992
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1992-04-01 至 1996-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/3388436
• 关键词: adolescence (12-20); child abuse; child behavior; cognition; family structure /dynamics; human subject; interpersonal relations; interview; isolation /deprivation; middle childhood (6-11); mother child interaction; peer group; social adjustment; social behavior; social psychology; social status; social support network

This proposal is designed to study the social relationships of physically abused children of school age. Recent work indicates that abused children have lower social status among their peers than non-abused children and that their relationships with peers are characterized by less positive reciprocity and more negativity. Such findings suggest that these children are at seriously increased risk of diminished social and emotional support as they grow older and move into adolescence. The study addresses the questions of how their diminished social status comes about, whether their conceptions of friendship and understanding of social support differ from those of non-abused children, and what the effects are of lower social status on the children's feelings about their own social relationships. It proposes a set of three models to account for the effect of abuse on sociometric status, quality of friendship, and feelings of loneliness and social dissatisfaction. The first two models examine how two mediating factors (children's social cognition and their social behavior with peers) bring about lower social status and lowered expectations for friendship. The third model examines the effects on loneliness and social dissatisfaction that are associated with lowered sociometric status and poor quality of friendships. One hundred physically abused children are recruited from the confirmed cases of abuse on the NYC Special Services for Children Register and compared with 100 non-abused classmates matched case by case for gender, age, race, ethnicity, and SES. Sociometric assessments will be conducted in classes, and individual interviews will be conducted elsewhere in school. Teachers and parents will be asked to rate the children for social competence and problem behavior, and mothers will be interviewed at home to obtain demographic information about the family, parenting practices, and descriptions of interactive behavior among family members. Peer relationships should be of special importance for abused children in light in their highly stressful family relationships. This may well constitute a domain in which early intervention would have unusually good chances of success, since studies of social/behavioral intervention with children low sociometric status have shown promising results. The data provided by this study would be valuable in the design of such intervention.

这项建议旨在研究社会关系的身体 受虐待的学龄儿童。 最近的研究表明， 在同龄人中的社会地位低于未受虐待的儿童， 他们与同伴的关系不那么积极， 互惠性和更多的消极性。 这些研究结果表明，这些儿童 社会和情感支持减少的风险严重增加 当他们长大进入青春期时。 这项研究探讨了他们的社会地位如何下降的问题， 无论他们对友谊的概念和对 社会支持不同于那些未受虐待的儿童， 社会地位较低对儿童对自己的感情的影响 自己的社会关系。 它提出了一套三个模型来解释滥用对 社会地位，友谊的质量，孤独感和 社会不满。 前两个模型研究了两个中介 因素（儿童的社会认知和与同伴的社会行为） 降低社会地位和对友谊的期望。 第三个模型考察了孤独感和社交能力的影响。 与社会地位降低有关的不满， 友谊质量差。 100名遭受身体虐待的儿童被招募， 纽约市儿童特别服务登记册上的虐待案件， 与100名性别匹配的未受虐待同学相比， 年龄、种族、民族和SES。 将进行社会计量评估 在课堂上，和个别面试将在其他地方进行， 学校 教师和家长将被要求对孩子们的社交能力进行评分 能力和问题行为，母亲将在家里接受采访， 获得有关家庭的人口统计信息，养育方法， 描述家庭成员之间的互动行为。 同伴关系对受虐待的儿童特别重要， 在他们紧张的家庭关系中的光。 这很可能 构成了一个领域，在这个领域中，早期干预会有异常好的效果， 成功的机会，因为社会/行为干预的研究， 社会地位低的儿童已经显示出有希望的结果。 数据 这项研究提供的将是有价值的设计， 干预