PEER CULTURES AND ADOLESCENT AIDS RISK

同伴文化和青少年艾滋病风险

• 批准号: 6182369
• 负责人: Stephen L EYRE
• 金额: $ 11.59万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 1998
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1998-07-15 至 2003-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/6182369
• 关键词: AIDS; AIDS education /prevention; African American; adolescence (12-20); audiotape; behavioral /social science research tag; caucasian American; clinical research; communication behavior; disease /disorder proneness /risk; gender difference; human subject; interpersonal relations; interview; language; longitudinal human study; model design /development; peer group; racial /ethnic difference; sex behavior; social behavior; social model; videotape /videodisc

DESCRIPTION (adapted from the Abstract): In the search for a means to modify adolescent sexual behavior, advocates of many HIV prevention interventions have appealed to what are for adolescents relatively weak motivations: those related to health and bodily harm. Social motivations are likely to be far stronger determinants of sexual behavior, yet these frequently have been viewed as obstacles rather than as variables that might be manipulated directly to prevent HIV infection. In the first four years of the proposed study, the Principal Investigator will examine the manner in which the social environment affects cognition and behavior related to sex of African American and White youth, aged 11 to 15 years. The focus will be on what has to date been understudied in this field: face-to-face interaction within cliques in a school environment and the role of communication and language in determining peer behavior. The primary specific aim of the project is to develop an empirically-based model of the social mechanism of peer influence related to sex of African American and White adolescents as it changes over the period from early to middle adolescence. The Investigator will conduct an ethnographic study of a cohort of 24 male and 24 female African American and White adolescents over a 4-year period as they move from the sixth through the ninth grade. His primary study methods will be ethnographic observation of cliques and audiotape recordings of clique social interaction supplemented by experience-focused interviews with a subset of clique members. Specifically, the Investigator will study adolescent peer culture at four levels: the crowd, the clique, the friendship clique or dyad and the romantic/sexual relationship. He will: conduct ethnographic observations in a range of venues where cliques congregate and interact; record and analyze field notes concurrent with data collection using methods of grounded theory; interview one in four clique members regarding their experience of clique membership as well as regarding gender and sexuality, analyzing also, the transcripts of interviews and of recorded interaction with grounded theory methods. Throughout the first four years and during the summers following each year of observation, primary effort will be devoted to model building. The transitions from junior high school to high school will be studied closely to determine variables affects change in peer influence structures. The goal of the study will be to understand the mechanism of adolescent peer influence sufficiently to be able to experiment with behavior change vehicles and test implementation of one pre-intervention based on social context methods in the fifth year of the study.

描述(改编自摘要)：在寻找一种方法 改变青少年性行为，倡导许多艾滋病预防措施 干预措施吸引了相对较弱的青少年 动机：与健康和身体伤害有关的动机。社会动机 很可能是性行为的更强的决定因素，然而这些 经常被视为障碍，而不是可能 被直接操纵以预防艾滋病毒感染。在前四年 在拟议的研究中，首席调查员将审查 社会环境对与性有关的认知和行为的影响 非裔美国人和白人青年，年龄在11岁到15岁之间。重点将是 关于这一领域迄今尚未深入研究的问题：面对面 学校环境中的派系之间的互动和 在决定同伴行为时的交流和语言。初级阶段 该项目的具体目标是开发一种基于经验的模型 非裔美国人性别与同伴影响的社会机制 白人青少年从早期到中期的变化 青春期。调查员将对一名 24名男性和24名女性非裔美国人和白人青少年组成的队列 从六年级到九年级有四年的时间。他的 主要研究方法将是对派系的民族志观察和 集团社交的录音带，辅以 对集团成员子集进行以体验为重点的采访。 具体地说，调查者将在四岁时研究青少年的同伴文化 级别：人群、集团、友谊集团或二人组以及 浪漫/性关系。他将：进行人种学观察 在一系列小集团聚集和互动的场所；记录和 使用以下方法分析与数据收集同时进行的野外笔记 扎根的理论；采访四分之一的集团成员关于他们的 集团成员的经验以及关于性别和性取向的经验， 还分析了采访和互动录音的文字记录 用扎实的理论方法。在前四年和 每一年的观察之后的夏天，主要的努力将是 致力于模型制作。从初中到高中的过渡 学校将被密切研究，以确定影响同伴变化的变量 影响结构。这项研究的目标将是了解 青少年同伴影响的机制足以进行实验 与行为改变工具和测试工具的实施一体 基于社会情境方法的预干预--第五年 学习。