Parental Alcoholism and Adolescent Psychological Adjustment

父母酗酒与青少年心理调适

• 批准号: 7105644
• 负责人: CHRISTINE MCCAULEY OHANNESSIAN
• 金额: $ 13.77万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2005
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2005-09-01 至 2010-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7105644
• 关键词: adolescence (12-20); alcoholism /alcohol abuse; behavior disorders; behavioral /social science research tag; clinical research; coping; data collection methodology /evaluation; drug abuse; family structure /dynamics; gender difference; human subject; interpersonal relations; longitudinal human study; parent offspring interaction; paternal behavior; peer group; psychological adaptation; questionnaires; self concept; social behavior; social psychology; social support network; statistics /biometry

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The primary goal of this Mentored Research Scientist Development application is to provide the candidate with additional training and the opportunity for the refinement of research skills so she may become a fully independent investigator. Although the candidate has a respectable publication record, her grantsmanship experience is more limited. The candidate's long-term goal is to have a program of research that focuses on variables that may mediate and/or moderate the relationship between parental alcoholism and offspring adjustment. Her immediate goals are to meet the objectives proposed in the career development plan of this application. The candidate has outlined a five-year intensive training period consisting of mentoring, advanced training in statistical modeling (particularly structural equation modeling and hierarchical linear modeling), grantsmanship, and the ethical conduct of research. In addition to these training activities, a major focus of the career development plan will be the conduct of a short-term longitudinal study examining psychosocial variables that may moderate the relationship between parental alcoholism and adolescent adjustment. The primary goals of the proposed research study are to: 1) examine whether characteristics of the individual (e.g., self-worth, coping abilities) moderate the relationship between parental alcoholism and adjustment during adolescence, and whether the manner in which these potential moderators exert their influence changes over time; 2) determine whether aspects of the individual's context (e.g., family, school, peer contexts) play significant moderating roles in the relationship between parental alcoholism and adjustment during adolescence, and whether specific contextual influences change over time; 3) examine whether interactions occur between characteristics of the individual and his or her context which may influence the adolescent's development of psychological or substance abuse problems; 4) explore whether the proposed moderating variables exert their effects on the relationship between parental alcoholism and adolescent adjustment directly or via latent and/or sleeper effects; and 5) examine whether the effects of the proposed moderating variables on the relationship between parental alcoholism and adolescent adjustment differ depending on the gender of the adolescent and/or the gender of the parent. Five hundred and seventy six adolescents and their parents will be administered a packet of self-report questionnaires when the adolescents are in the 9th grade and a year later when they are in the 10th grade. The measures will assess parental substance use, adolescent psychological adjustment (e.g., depression, anxiety, substance abuse) and a variety of psychosocial variables that are hypothesized to moderate the relationship between parental alcoholism and adolescent adjustment (e.g., coping techniques, family functioning, school involvement). The data obtained from this study primarily will be analyzed using the advanced statistical techniques/skills (e.g., structural equation modeling) that the candidate will acquire during the training period. In addition, this data will be used as a foundation for a larger, more extensive, long-term longitudinal investigation designed to examine the underlying processes involved in the relationship between parental alcoholism and adolescent psychological adjustment.

描述（由申请人提供）：本指导研究科学家发展应用程序的主要目标是为候选人提供额外的培训和研究技能的细化机会，使她成为一个完全独立的研究者。尽管这位候选人有着令人尊敬的出版记录，但她的高级经验却比较有限。候选人的长期目标是有一个研究计划，重点是可能调解和/或缓和父母酗酒和后代调整之间的关系的变量。她的近期目标是实现本申请职业发展计划中提出的目标。候选人概述了为期五年的强化培训期，包括指导、统计建模（特别是结构方程建模和分层线性建模）、资助精神和研究道德行为方面的高级培训。除了这些培训活动外，职业发展计划的一个主要重点将是进行一项短期纵向研究，审查可能缓和父母酗酒与青少年适应之间关系的社会心理变数。拟议研究的主要目标是：1）检查个人的特征（例如，自我价值，应对能力）调节父母酗酒和青春期适应之间的关系，以及这些潜在调节者施加影响的方式是否随时间而变化; 2）确定个体背景的方面（例如，家庭、学校、同伴环境在父母酗酒与青少年适应之间的关系中起着显著的调节作用，以及特定的环境影响是否随时间而变化; 3）考察个体特征与其环境之间是否存在交互作用，这些交互作用可能影响青少年心理或物质滥用问题的发展;（4）探讨这些调节变量是直接影响父母酗酒与青少年适应之间的关系，还是通过潜在和/或睡眠效应影响父母酗酒与青少年适应之间的关系;（五）检查是否建议的调节变量对父母酗酒和青少年适应之间的关系的影响不同，青少年的性别和/或父母的性别。576名青少年和他们的父母将在九年级和一年后在十年级时进行一组自我报告问卷。这些措施将评估父母的物质使用情况、青少年的心理适应情况（例如，抑郁、焦虑、物质滥用）和各种被假设为调节父母酗酒和青少年适应之间关系的社会心理变量（例如，应对技巧、家庭功能、学校参与）。本研究获得的数据主要将使用高级统计技术/技能进行分析（例如，结构方程模型），候选人将在培训期间获得。此外，这些数据将被用来作为一个更大的基础，更广泛的，长期的纵向调查，旨在研究父母酗酒和青少年心理调整之间的关系所涉及的潜在过程。