Community Connections and African American Adolescents

社区联系和非裔美国青少年

• 批准号: 6572627
• 负责人: Jeanne M. McIntosh
• 金额: $ 12.27万
• 依托单位: DE PAUL UNIVERSITY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2003
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2003-07-01 至 2008-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/6572627
• 关键词: African American; adolescence (12-20); behavioral /social science research tag; clinical research; community; culture; developmental psychology; family structure /dynamics; human subject; interpersonal relations; interview; longitudinal human study; low socioeconomic status; mental disorder prevention; mental disorders; mental health; outcomes research; peer group; psychological adaptation; questionnaires; role model; social support network; socioenvironment; urban poverty area

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Dr. Jeanne M. McIntosh, Assistant Professor of Psychology at DePaul University, is pursuing applied research in the area of adolescent risk and resilience. Dr, McIntosh will refine and examine the construct of Community Connections, or degree of connectedness between adolescents' primary developmental settings, among samples of low-income urban African American adolescents and their families. This line of research is expected to eventually result in the development of a culture-specific intervention component that will enhance the effectiveness of coordinated service interventions by assisting low-income urban African American adolescents and their families to promote and engage indigenous and organizational mesosystem support networks. The Scientific Development Award will fund four studies related to this goal. Study 1 involves a qualitative examination of the content, structure, and process of adolescents' Community Connections. Study 2 involves construction of the Community Connections Inventory. Study 3 examines the reliability, validity, and factor structure of the measure. Study 4 tests a model predicting that Community Connections moderates the relationship between Neighborhood Risk and Psychological Problems. The applicant's research career development plan supports these goals by focusing on skill development in the areas of scientific writing and publication, quantitative and qualitative research methods, and grantsmanship.

描述（由申请人提供）：Jeanne M. McIntosh 博士是德保罗大学心理学助理教授，正在青少年风险和复原力领域进行应用研究。麦金托什博士将在低收入城市非裔美国青少年及其家庭样本中完善和研究社区联系的结构，或青少年主要发展环境之间的联系程度。预计这一研究方向最终将开发出针对特定文化的干预措施，通过协助低收入城市非裔美国青少年及其家庭促进和参与土著和组织的中间系统支持网络，提高协调服务干预措施的有效性。科学发展奖将资助与这一目标相关的四项研究。研究 1 涉及对青少年社区联系的内容、结构和过程的定性检查。研究 2 涉及社区联系量表的构建。研究 3 检查了该测量的信度、效度和因素结构。研究 4 测试了一个模型，该模型预测社区联系会调节邻里风险与心理问题之间的关系。申请人的研究职业发展计划通过关注科学写作和出版、定量和定性研究方法以及资助领域的技能发展来支持这些目标。