Adolescent Violence Exposure and Internalizing and Externalizing Outcomes

描述(由申请人提供)：这是一份培训补助金的申请，其主要目标是提高申请者的研究熟练程度，并为她成为一名在社区暴力暴露和非裔美国人心理健康领域拥有专业知识的独立研究人员做准备。这些领域的培训和奖学金很重要，因为非洲裔美国青年更有可能目睹社区暴力，并成为社区暴力的受害者，这可能是因为非洲裔美国人在低收入社区的比例过高。发生在贫困社区的暴力事件的强度和严重性影响这些地区的年轻人的比例不成比例，并使非裔美国青少年面临与暴力暴露相关的许多负面影响的更大风险，包括学习、社会和心理困难。拟议研究的具体目的是：1)扩大我对城市少数民族青少年发展的了解，重点是青年内化和外化与长期遭受暴力有关的结果；2)审查与遭受暴力的青年的复原力相关的因素；以及3)扩大我对统计方法和研究设计的了解和熟练程度，以研究暴力暴露和感知的邻里暴力对青少年心理健康的影响。这项建议是对现有数据集的二次分析，该数据集由流行病学定义的585名非裔美国青少年(53.2%男性)的社区样本组成，他们在一年级时首次接受评估，收集自5R01MH057005-09《两项预防性试验的定期随访》(P.I.：Nicholas Lalongo)。参与者从小学到青春期定期接受评估，样本量各不相同(表1)。青少年报告了与暴力有关的经历，并对行为适应进行了评估。将审查对高危环境中的非裔美国青年的评估和干预的影响。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This is an application for a training grant for which the main goal is to increase the research proficiency of the applicant, and prepare her to become an independent researcher with expertise in the areas of community violence exposure and African American mental health. Training and scholarship in these areas is important because African American youth are more likely to witness and be victims of community violence exposure, possibly due to the overrepresentation of African Americans in low income neighborhoods. The intensity and severity of the violent events that occur in poorer neighborhoods affects youth in these areas at disproportionate rates and places African American adolescents at a greater risk for many of the negative effects associated with violence exposure, including academic, social, and psychological difficulties. The specific aims for the proposed research are: 1) to expand my knowledge of the development of ethnic minority urban adolescents, with a focus on youth internalizing and externalizing outcomes associated with chronic experiences with violence; 2) to examine factors associated with resilience for youth exposed to violence, and 3) to expand my knowledge of and proficiency with statistical methods and research designs appropriate for studying the effects of violence exposure and perceived neighborhood violence on adolescent mental health. This proposal is for secondary analysis of an existing dataset comprised of an epidemiologically-defined community sample of 585 African American adolescents (53.2% male), who were first assessed during first grade, collected for 5R01MH057005-09, "Periodic Follow Up of Two Preventative Trials" (P.I.: Nicholas lalongo). Participants were assessed at regular intervals from elementary school through adolescence resulting in varying sample sizes (Table 1). Youth reported about experiences with violence, and behavioral adjustment also was assessed. Implications for assessment and intervention with African American youth in high risk environments will be examined.