Family Strengths in Preventing Adolescent Drug Use

预防青少年吸毒的家庭优势

• 批准号: 7141840
• 负责人: Brenda A Miller
• 金额: $ 46.42万
• 依托单位: PACIFIC INSTITUTE FOR RES AND EVALUATION
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2006
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2006-09-01 至 2009-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7141840
• 关键词: adolescence (12-20); alcoholism /alcohol abuse prevention; behavioral /social science research tag; child rearing; clinical research; culture; disease /disorder proneness /risk; drug abuse prevention; family structure /dynamics; gender difference; human subject; interview; longitudinal human study; maternal behavior; parent offspring interaction; paternal behavior; peer group; psychological values; religion

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Risk, resiliency, and protective factors identified by prior research are important constructs for prevention of adolescents' use of alcohol and other drugs. These constructs remain relatively robust through the adolescent years in predicting AOD use. However, there is a need to explore more carefully how parents and older adolescents perceive and implement the risk, resiliency and protective factors. The major goals of this study are to build upon prior research by bringing more in-depth understandings to behaviors related to the existing risk, resilience, and protective constructs. Our specific aims are as follows: Specific Aim 1: For older adolescents, to illustrate and categorize descriptive accounts of parental/family actions of each of the risk, protective, and resilience constructs identified in the existing models for adolescent AOD use (e.g., parental monitoring, disciplinary practices, parenting management style, family bonding, family rituals, religiousness, availability/access). Specific Aim 2: To compare the descriptive accounts provided by parents and older adolescents of the constructs in Specific Aim 1 and to determine the overlap (between parents/adolescents) and to examine the differences in thematic content expressed by parents and adolescents when the target adolescent is female vs. male. Specific Aim 3: To "map" these qualitative findings to the existing instruments that measure these constructs. Qualitative interviews (that include some closed-ended questions) will be conducted with 100 families (both parents and one 16-17 year old adolescent). This sample will be drawn from a prior funded study that sampled adolescents and parents and with data from three prior waves regarding adolescent AOD use, and closed-ended questions on families. This study is significant because qualitative research can provide rich or "thick" descriptive responses that participants give to open-ended questions and provide a real world view of life as they experience it. We are proposing that there may be different nuances that have emerged in the risk, resilience, and protective constructs. We are also proposing that in-depth explorations could give richer meaning to our existing measures, even if we discover, that we need not change a particular measure to actually provide us with our measurement models we are investigating. This information would substantively contribute to the practical world by providing new information for family prevention programs by providing: (1) A better understanding of how varied the content of these parental behaviors are; 2) How differently the adolescent and the parents perceive these behaviors; 3) How this content of parental behaviors dynamically interact between parents and adolescents.

描述(由申请人提供)：先前研究确定的风险、弹性和保护因素是预防青少年使用酒精和其他药物的重要概念。在整个青春期，这些结构在预测AOD使用方面保持相对强健。然而，有必要更仔细地探讨父母和年龄较大的青少年如何看待和实施风险、复原力和保护性因素。这项研究的主要目标是通过对与现有风险、弹性和保护性结构相关的行为进行更深入的理解来建立在先前研究的基础上。我们的具体目标如下：具体目标1：对于较大的青少年，说明并分类描述在青少年使用AOD的现有模型中确定的每个风险、保护和复原力结构的父母/家庭行动的描述性说明(例如，父母监测、纪律做法、育儿管理方式、家庭纽带、家庭仪式、宗教信仰、可获得性/可获得性)。具体目标2：比较父母和年龄较大的青少年对具体目标1的结构的描述性描述，确定(父母/青少年之间)的重叠，并检查当目标青少年是女性和男性时，父母和青少年表达的主题内容的差异。具体目标3：将这些定性发现与测量这些结构的现有工具“映射”起来。将对100个家庭(包括父母和一名16-17岁的青少年)进行定性访谈(包括一些封闭式问题)。此样本将来自先前资助的一项研究，该研究对青少年和父母进行了抽样，并使用了之前三波关于青少年AOD使用的数据，以及关于家庭的封闭式问题。这项研究意义重大，因为定性研究可以提供参与者对开放式问题的丰富或“厚重”的描述性回答，并提供他们所经历的生活的真实世界观。我们提出，在风险、弹性和保护性结构中可能出现了不同的细微差别。我们还建议，深入探索可以赋予我们现有的测量更丰富的意义，即使我们发现，我们不需要改变特定的测量来实际为我们提供我们正在调查的测量模型。这些信息将为家庭预防项目提供新的信息，从而为现实世界做出实质性贡献：(1)更好地了解这些父母行为的内容有多不同；2)青少年和父母对这些行为的看法有多大不同；3)父母和青少年之间如何动态地互动这些父母行为的内容。