Romantic Relationships Models and Adolescent Health

浪漫关系模式与青少年健康

• 批准号: 6536306
• 负责人: Stephen L EYRE
• 金额: $ 29.7万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2001
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2001-07-01 至 2005-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/6536306
• 关键词: African American; Hispanic Americans; adolescence (12-20); behavioral /social science research tag; belief; clinical research; culture; data collection methodology /evaluation; dyadic interaction; emotional adjustment; gender difference; human subject; interview; peer group; psychological adaptation; psychological models; quality of life; racial /ethnic difference; sex behavior; sexually transmitted diseases; social behavior; social group process; social model; statistics /biometry

DESCRIPTION (investigator's abstract): Adolescents, more than other age group, suffer morbidity as a consequence of their behavior. Much research has sought to determine why adolescents take risks, and how they might be influenced to do otherwise. Most theories of risk are psychological in nature, taking the individual as a unit of analysis and hypothesizing individual characteristics as correlates of behavior. One major determinant of behavior overlooked by this approach is that of culture. Consisting of ideas, understanding, beliefs, and subjective knowledge, culture is a determinant of adolescent behavior which does not reside in the individual but is shared by adolescent social groups. The culture of romantic relationships-what adolescents subjectively believe about these relationships-has not been widely studied. As a consequence, interventions targeting adolescents reproductive health often do not contextualize health promotion messages in terms of concepts that adolescents view as important when they think and talk about romantic relationships in their daily lives. In this study, we plan to identify cultural models of romantic relationships based on accounts given by a sample of African American/ Mexican American male/ female adolescents. To identify cultural models, we will elicit cultural cognition in three interview contexts (individual, couple, and peer group) using a Vernacular Term Interview (VTI) procedure. We will then specify the structure and content of cultural models in data from the individual interview using Vernacular Concept Analysis (VCA), in which data is indexed, a subset is extracted, and analytic categories are identified and organized. This method will identify prominent models expressed by respondents of any demographic category or combination of demographic categories. In the second half of the study, we will seek to answer the following comparative questions: 1) what differences are there in cultural models expressed by African Americans and Mexican American adolescents, 2) what differences are there in cultural models expressed my male and female adolescents, and 3) what differences are there in expression and qualification of cultural models by adolescents interviewed in different social contexts (individual, couple, and peer group)? To accomplish this, a uniform coding system reflecting identified cultural models will be applied to data collected in all three interview contexts and statistical procedures will be utilized to answer the three comparative research questions. Findings of this research will have relevance to health promotion efforts related to reducing STD's and unwanted pregnancy.

描述(调查者摘要)：青少年比其他年龄段的人更容易因其行为而患上疾病。许多研究试图确定青少年为什么要冒险，以及他们可能会受到怎样的影响 否则的话。大多数风险理论本质上都是心理学的， 作为分析单位的个体和假设的个体特征 作为行为的关联者。这一点忽视了行为的一个主要决定因素 方法是文化的方法。由想法、理解、信念和 主观知识、文化是青少年行为的决定因素 不存在于个人中，而是由青少年社会群体共享。 恋爱文化--青少年主观上相信的东西 关于这些关系--还没有得到广泛的研究。因此， 针对青少年生殖健康的干预措施通常不会 将健康促进信息与青少年的概念联系起来 当他们思考和谈论浪漫关系时， 他们的日常生活。 在这项研究中，我们计划确定浪漫关系的文化模式 基于非洲裔美国人/墨西哥裔美国男性样本提供的描述 女性青少年。为了确定文化模式，我们将引出文化 三种面试情境(个人、夫妻和同龄人群体)的认知 使用通俗术语面试(VTI)程序。然后，我们将指定 个人访谈数据中文化模式的结构和内容 使用白话概念分析(VCA)，其中数据被索引，子集是 提取，并识别和组织分析类别。这种方法 将确定任何人群的受访者所表达的突出模型 人口分类或人口分类的组合。在下半部分， 在研究中，我们将寻求回答以下比较问题：1)什么 非洲裔美国人和美国黑人表达的文化模式存在差异 墨西哥裔美国青少年，2)文化模式有什么不同 表达了我的男性和女性青少年，以及3)有什么不同 年受访青少年对文化模式的表达和资质 不同的社会环境(个人、夫妇和同龄人群体)？要完成 这将是一个反映已确定的文化模式的统一编码系统 应用于在所有三个访谈环境中收集的数据，并进行统计 程序将被用来回答三个比较研究问题。 这项研究的发现将对促进健康的努力具有相关性 与减少性传播疾病和意外怀孕有关。