Urban Adolescents Responses to Verbal Victimization: Does adjustment play a role?

城市青少年对言语伤害的反应：调整起作用吗？

• 批准号: 7485322
• 负责人: Amie F Bettencourt
• 金额: $ 3.56万
• 依托单位: VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2008
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2008-04-07 至 2010-04-06
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7485322
• 关键词: Adolescent; Adolescent Behavior; Adult; Affect; Aggressive behavior; Anxiety; Behavior; Behavioral; Cognition; Cognitive; Computer information processing; Conflict (Psychology); Cues; Development; Exclusion; Exhibits; Funding; Generations; Goals; Individual Differences; Intervention; Interview; Knowledge; Lead; Measurement; Measures; Methods; Modeling; Names; Paper; Participant; Patient Self-Report; Pattern; Play; Prevalence; Prevention; Prevention program; Process; Process Assessment; Psyche structure; Public Health; Range; Recruitment Activity; Reliance; Reporting; Research; Research Personnel; Research Training; Role; Sampling; School-Age Population; Schools; Science; Self Efficacy; Series; Simulate; Social Environment; Social Interaction; Stimulus; Structure; Students; Subgroup; Techniques; Thinking; Time; Victimization; Youth; behavior influence; coping; heuristics; neglect; peer; programs; response; skills; social; therapy development

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Verbal victimization (W), consisting of verbal threats and teasing, is a common problem among adolescents. How youth choose to respond to VV situations is guided by their social information-processing (SIP) skills. The SIP model describes how youth organize and decide to respond to social cues. According to this model, responses arise after a series of mental steps that include encoding and interpreting cues, selecting goals, accessing and constructing responses, and deciding on a response. Youth's SIP patterns are associated with individual differences in adjustment. Maladjustment (i.e. aggressive or anxious behavior) is associated with biased SIP patterns. Biased processing, characterized by a reliance on internal structured knowledge (schemas) and heuristics to the exclusion of situational cues from the immediate social context, can impact a variety of other internal factors (i.e. attribution style, self-efficacy), and thus can affect any SIP step. However, not all youth exhibit biased SIP patterns. Understanding how 4 subgroups of youth (well-adjusted, neglected, passive-victims, aggressive-victims) process social stimuli and enact responses to VV has important implications for interventions promoting positive youth development. This project uses ATSS, a think aloud approach that allows participants to report their cognitions related to a situation as they occur, to examine how SIP pattern differences among these four groups influence behavioral responses to W situations, and to identify the range of responses to W enacted by youth. The aims of this project will be achieved through the recruitment of 100 middle school students as part of an ongoing CDC-funded study to participate in ATSS assessments on VV situations after completing paper and pencil measures of adjustment. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: Results of this project will help identify how well-adjusted youth process social stimuli and respond to a common adolescent problem, VV. This knowledge will inform the development of interventions that will increase the likelihood that students will enact pro-social responses to problems (i.e. VV), and decrease the likelihood that they will enact aggressive or ineffective responses. Thus, the goals of this project are consistent with the current focus within the field of prevention science on the promotion of positive youth development.

描述(申请人提供)：言语伤害(W)，包括言语威胁和取笑，是青少年中常见的问题。年轻人如何选择应对VV情况是由他们的社会信息处理(SIP)技能指导的。SIP模型描述了年轻人如何组织和决定对社会暗示做出反应。根据这个模型，反应是在一系列心理步骤之后产生的，包括编码和解释线索，选择目标，获取和构建反应，以及决定反应。青年的SIP模式与个体在适应上的差异有关。适应不良(即攻击性或焦虑性行为)与有偏见的SIP模式有关。偏向加工的特点是依赖内部结构化知识(图式)和启发式方法，从直接的社会背景中排除情景线索，可以影响其他各种内部因素(即归因风格、自我效能感)，因此可以影响任何SIP步骤。然而，并不是所有的年轻人都表现出有偏见的SIP模式。了解4个青年亚群(适应良好的、被忽视的、被动的受害者、攻击性受害者)如何处理社会刺激并对VV作出反应，对于促进积极的青年发展的干预措施具有重要意义。该项目使用ATS，这是一种大声思考的方法，允许参与者报告他们对发生的情况的认知，检查这四组人之间的SIP模式差异如何影响对W情况的行为反应，并确定年轻人对W情况的反应范围。该项目的目标将通过招募100名中学生来实现，这是疾控中心资助的一项正在进行的研究的一部分，目的是在完成纸质和铅笔调整措施后，参与ATSS对VV情况的评估。公共卫生相关性：该项目的结果将有助于确定适应良好的青年如何处理社会刺激和对常见的青少年问题VV作出反应。这些知识将为干预措施的发展提供信息，这些干预措施将增加学生对问题(即VV)采取亲社会反应的可能性，并降低他们采取攻击性或无效反应的可能性。因此，该项目的目标与预防科学领域目前对促进青年积极发展的重点是一致的。