Homelessness and its effect on young individuals' aggressive and addictive behaviours

我感兴趣的是调查儿童和青少年的发展如何受到他们成长的社会经济因素的影响。通过在伦敦国王学院完成心理健康研究硕士学位，我打算拓宽我在定量研究方法以及社区和社会对心理健康问题的认识方面的知识。在完成这门课程的同时，我将进一步发展与伦敦青年无家可归者慈善机构的联系和研究伙伴关系。从我在发展精神病理学实验室攻读博士学位的第一年开始，我将从这些慈善机构收集数据，研究在无家可归或有无家可归风险的青少年中观察到的行为问题和成瘾行为。然后，我的研究将调查一个人无家可归时环境条件的短期和长期影响，以及这如何影响14至25岁之间的年轻人的反社会和成瘾行为。

I am interested in investigating how children and adolescent development can be affected by the socioeconomic factors that they are raised in. Through completing a Masters in Mental Health Studies at King's College London I intend to broaden my knowledge of quantitative research methods and community and social perception of mental health problems. While completing this course, I will further develop a connection and a research partnership with London youth homelessness charities. Starting from my first year as a PhD candidate in the Developmental Psychopathology Lab I will collect data from those charities on conduct problems and addictive behaviours observed in young adolescents who are homeless or at risk of becoming homeless. My research will then investigate the short and long term effects of the environmental conditions while one is homeless and how this affects antisocial and addictive behaviours in young individuals between the ages of 14 and 25.