Determining the Effectiveness of a Relational Aggression Intervention for Urban A

确定城市 A 关系攻击干预的有效性

• 批准号: 7391063
• 负责人: STEPHEN S LEFF
• 金额: $ 61.29万
• 依托单位: CHILDREN'S HOSP OF PHILADELPHIA
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2007
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2007-06-01 至 2012-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7391063
• 关键词: Address; Adherence; Adolescent; African American; Aggressive behavior; Anger; Area; Attention; Behavior; Behavioral; Biological Models; Cartoons; Child; Child Development; Childhood; Clinical Trials; Cognitive; Community Practice; Competence; Computer information processing; Condition; Conflict (Psychology); Control Groups; Development; Discipline; Discipline of Nursing; Discrimination; Disease; Early Intervention; Eating Disorders; Ecosystem; Educational process of instructing; Effectiveness; Effectiveness of Interventions; Environment; Exclusion; Exhibits; Friends; Friendships; Funding; Goals; Grant; Home environment; Injury; Intervention; Intervention Studies; Knowledge; Left; Life; Loneliness; Mental Health; Mental disorders; Mentored Clinical Oncology Award; Mentored Clinical Scientist Award; Mentored Patient-Oriented Research Career Development Award; Minority; Moods; National Institute of Mental Health; Neighborhoods; Outcome Measure; Participant; Patient Self-Report; Performance; Physical aggression; Pilot Projects; Population; Poverty; Principal Investigator; Problem Solving; Process; Psychological adjustment; Randomized; Range; Reporting; Research; Research Design; Research Personnel; Risk; Safety; School-Age Population; Schools; Services; Single Parent; Social Problems; Societies; Students; Symptoms; Testing; Thinking; Today; Videotape; Violence; Youth; base; boys; comparison group; design; elementary school; experience; follow-up; girls; inner city; innovation; peer; prevent; programs; psychoeducational; psychosocial; response; size; skills; social; teacher; theories

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Although aggression among girls was once thought to be relatively rare, more recent research suggests that girls frequently engage in relational aggression (e.g., manipulating relationships and social standing through gossip and social exclusion). Despite advances in understanding relational aggression and its repercussions, almost all aggression intervention efforts have been designed for physical aggression and for boys. Further, given the increased risk experienced by African American students in inner-city, under-resourced areas, strategies for building the capacity of inner-city schools to promote high-risk girls' productive social problem solving skills while decreasing their levels of relational and physical aggression are critically needed. With funding from NIMH (K23 Award), the principal investigator has designed a 20 session school-based group intervention, called Friend to Friend (F2F). The goal of F2F is to teach 3rd-5th grade inner-city African American relationally aggressive girls social problem-solving skills and reduce their levels of aggression. In the K23 Award, relationally aggressive girls from two inner-city schools participating in F2F were compared to relationally aggressive girls in a no treatment control condition. Results were extremely promising and were used to establish effect size estimates for the planning of a clinical trial. The proposed trial will examine program impact across six inner-city elementary schools, a wider range of outcome measures, and will use a more sophisticated research design by comparing F2F to a psychoeducational attention control group. Further, the trial will explore the relation between girls' social problem solving skills and relationally aggressive behaviors, whether positive changes are maintained at 9 month follow-up, and whether F2F has an impact upon broader indicators of school safety, psychological adjustment, and school performance. Relevance: Aggression among today's youth has been documented as one of society's most costly problems, and recent research suggests relational aggression may be associated with later internalizing and externalizing disorders among girls. As such, developing early interventions for relationally aggressive girls may help to reduce serious mental health disorders later in life.

描述（由申请人提供）：虽然曾经认为女孩之间的攻击行为相对罕见，但最近的研究表明女孩经常进行关系攻击（例如，通过八卦和社会排斥来操纵关系和社会地位）。尽管在理解关系性攻击及其影响方面取得了进展，但几乎所有攻击行为干预措施都是针对身体攻击和男孩而设计的。此外，鉴于非裔美国学生在内城区、资源贫乏地区经历的风险增加，迫切需要制定内城区学校能力建设战略，以提高高风险女孩富有成效的社会问题解决技能，同时降低她们的关系和身体攻击水平。在 NIMH（K23 奖）的资助下，首席研究员设计了一项名为“朋友对朋友”(F2F) 的 20 节学校团体干预活动。 F2F 的目标是向 3 至 5 年级的内城区非裔美国女孩教授关系攻击性解决社交问题的技能，并降低她们的攻击性水平。在 K23 奖中，来自参加 F2F 的两所市中心学校的相对攻击性女孩与在无治疗对照条件下的相对攻击性女孩进行了比较。结果非常有希望，可用于建立临床试验规划的效应大小估计。拟议的试验将检查项目对六所市中心小学的影响、更广泛的结果衡量标准，并将通过将 F2F 与心理教育注意力对照组进行比较来使用更复杂的研究设计。此外，该试验还将探讨女孩解决社会问题的能力与相关攻击行为之间的关系，在9个月的随访中是否保持积极的变化，以及F2F是否对学校安全、心理调整和学校表现等更广泛的指标产生影响。相关性：当今年轻人的攻击行为已被记录为社会代价最高的问题之一，最近的研究表明关系攻击可能与女孩后来的内化和外化障碍有关。因此，对具有攻击性的女孩进行早期干预可能有助于减少以后生活中严重的心理健康障碍。