Community Violence Exposure and Positive Youth Development in Urban Adolescents

城市青少年的社区暴力暴露与青少年积极发展

• 批准号: 7611335
• 负责人: Catherine Claire McDonald
• 金额: $ 4.09万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2008
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2008-12-01 至 2010-11-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7611335
• 关键词: 1 year old; Address; Adolescent; Affect; African American; Age; Aggressive behavior; Anxiety; Arousal; Cause of Death; Chronic; Communities; Competence; Cross-Sectional Studies; Data Collection; Development; Discipline of Nursing; Empathy; Environment; Event; Exposure to; Fellowship; Fostering; Foundations; Future; Goals; Hearing; Homicide; Intervention; Knowledge; Literature; Mediating; Mediator of activation protein; Mental Depression; Mental Health; Mission; Outcome; Pathology; Problem behavior; Prospective Studies; Public Health; Purpose; Rate; Reporting; Research; Research Design; Role; Schools; Science; Societies; Solutions; Stress; Symptoms; Training; Victimization; Violence; Well in self; Youth; biological adaptation to stress; design; health disparity; improved; innovation; lens; response

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Adolescents in urban environments are exposed to staggering proportions of community violence which affects their physical and emotional well-being. Consequences of community violence exposure include depression, anxiety, posttraumatic stress and aggression, and likely add to health disparities. Research shows that posttraumatic stress may mediate the relationship between community violence exposure and negative mental health outcomes. Posttraumatic stress responses can be considered both normative and pathological, and this duality makes the potential role of posttraumatic stress as a mediator between community violence exposure and outcomes intriguing. If young people are the future of society, exposure to community violence and its ramifications is unacceptable and demands innovative solutions. This proposed study will focus on positive youth development in the context of community violence. The positive youth development perspective can help to inform the design of future interventions that enhance the development of potentially vulnerable and often marginalized youth. Positive youth development expands knowledge beyond the absence of problem behaviors or pathology, to the presence of healthy development. The goal of this training plan is to gain a better understanding of the relationship between community violence exposure, posttraumatic stress and positive youth development in urban adolescents. The purpose of this proposed study is to use a quantitative cross-sectional research design to specifically examine the effects of posttraumatic stress in the relationship between community violence exposure and positive youth development in 110 community-dwelling urban adolescents, ages 13-17. The specific aims of this study are to: 1). Describe the level of community violence exposure, posttraumatic stress, and indicators of positive youth development among urban adolescents: 2). Examine the relationships between community violence exposure, posttraumatic stress, and positive youth development: and 3.) Explore the combined effects of community violence exposure and posttraumatic stress on positive youth development. This proposal addresses community violence exposure, a known public health problem for urban youth. Research conducted through this fellowship will include collection of data from community-dwelling adolescents in order to gain an understanding of the impact of community violence exposure on positive youth development in urban adolescents. Results of this study not only can contribute to public health, but also address NINR's mission and strategic goals by elucidating mechanisms underlying health disparities in urban adolescents.

描述（由申请人提供）：城市环境中的青少年面临着影响其身心健康的惊人比例的社区暴力。接触社区暴力的后果包括抑郁、焦虑、创伤后压力和攻击性，并可能增加健康差距。研究表明，创伤后压力可能介导社区暴力暴露和负面心理健康结果之间的关系。创伤后应激反应可以被认为是规范性和病理性的，这种双重性使得创伤后应激反应作为社区暴力暴露和结果之间的调解人的潜在作用耐人寻味。如果青年人是社会的未来，那么遭受社区暴力及其后果是不可接受的，需要有创新的解决办法。这项拟议的研究将侧重于社区暴力背景下的青年积极发展。积极的青年发展视角有助于为今后的干预措施设计提供信息，以促进潜在弱势和往往被边缘化的青年的发展。积极的青年发展扩展了知识，超越了没有问题行为或病理，健康发展的存在。 这一培训计划的目标是更好地了解城市青少年遭受社区暴力、创伤后压力和积极的青年发展之间的关系。本研究的目的是采用定量的横断面研究设计，专门研究创伤后应激对110名13-17岁居住在社区的城市青少年的社区暴力暴露和积极的青年发展之间的关系的影响。本研究的具体目的是：1）。描述城市青少年的社区暴力暴露水平、创伤后压力和积极青年发展指标：2）。检查社区暴力暴露，创伤后应激反应和积极的青年发展之间的关系：和3。探索社区暴力暴露和创伤后压力对青年积极发展的综合影响。 该提案涉及社区暴力暴露，这是城市青年的一个已知公共卫生问题。通过该研究金开展的研究将包括收集社区青少年的数据，以了解社区暴力对城市青少年积极发展的影响。本研究的结果不仅有助于公共卫生，而且通过阐明城市青少年健康差异的机制，解决NINR的使命和战略目标。