Parental Alcoholism and Adolescent Psychological Adjustment

父母酗酒与青少年心理调适

• 批准号: 7277839
• 负责人: CHRISTINE MCCAULEY OHANNESSIAN
• 金额: $ 14.03万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2005
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2005-09-01 至 2010-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7277839
• 关键词: Adolescence; Adolescent; Adolescent Development; Alcohol or Other Drugs use; Alcoholism; Anxiety; Characteristics; Condition; Data; Development; Development Plans; Equation; Family; Foundations; Gender; Goals; Human Development; Individual; Investigation; Linear Models; Longitudinal Studies; Measures; Mediating; Mental Depression; Mentors; Modeling; Parents; Patient Self-Report; Play; Prevalence; Principal Investigator; Problem behavior; Process; Psychological adjustment; Psychosocial Factor; Publications; Questionnaires; Research; Research Personnel; Research Project Grants; Role; Schools; Scientist; Statistical Models; Substance abuse problem; Techniques; Time; Training; Training Activity; adolescent substance use; age group; base; career; coping; design; experience; peer; problem drinker; programs; psychologic; research study; skills; transmission process

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The primary goal of this Mentored Research Scientist Development application is to provide the candidate with additional training and the opportunity for the refinement of research skills so she may become a fully independent investigator. Although the candidate has a respectable publication record, her grantsmanship experience is more limited. The candidate's long-term goal is to have a program of research that focuses on variables that may mediate and/or moderate the relationship between parental alcoholism and offspring adjustment. Her immediate goals are to meet the objectives proposed in the career development plan of this application. The candidate has outlined a five-year intensive training period consisting of mentoring, advanced training in statistical modeling (particularly structural equation modeling and hierarchical linear modeling), grantsmanship, and the ethical conduct of research. In addition to these training activities, a major focus of the career development plan will be the conduct of a short-term longitudinal study examining psychosocial variables that may moderate the relationship between parental alcoholism and adolescent adjustment. The primary goals of the proposed research study are to: 1) examine whether characteristics of the individual (e.g., self-worth, coping abilities) moderate the relationship between parental alcoholism and adjustment during adolescence, and whether the manner in which these potential moderators exert their influence changes over time; 2) determine whether aspects of the individual's context (e.g., family, school, peer contexts) play significant moderating roles in the relationship between parental alcoholism and adjustment during adolescence, and whether specific contextual influences change over time; 3) examine whether interactions occur between characteristics of the individual and his or her context which may influence the adolescent's development of psychological or substance abuse problems; 4) explore whether the proposed moderating variables exert their effects on the relationship between parental alcoholism and adolescent adjustment directly or via latent and/or sleeper effects; and 5) examine whether the effects of the proposed moderating variables on the relationship between parental alcoholism and adolescent adjustment differ depending on the gender of the adolescent and/or the gender of the parent. Five hundred and seventy six adolescents and their parents will be administered a packet of self-report questionnaires when the adolescents are in the 9th grade and a year later when they are in the 10th grade. The measures will assess parental substance use, adolescent psychological adjustment (e.g., depression, anxiety, substance abuse) and a variety of psychosocial variables that are hypothesized to moderate the relationship between parental alcoholism and adolescent adjustment (e.g., coping techniques, family functioning, school involvement). The data obtained from this study primarily will be analyzed using the advanced statistical techniques/skills (e.g., structural equation modeling) that the candidate will acquire during the training period. In addition, this data will be used as a foundation for a larger, more extensive, long-term longitudinal investigation designed to examine the underlying processes involved in the relationship between parental alcoholism and adolescent psychological adjustment.

描述(由申请者提供)：这个有指导的研究科学家发展申请的主要目标是为候选人提供额外的培训和完善研究技能的机会，使她可以成为一名完全独立的研究员。尽管这位候选人有令人尊敬的出版记录，但她的资历更为有限。候选人的长期目标是有一个研究计划，专注于可能调节和/或缓和父母酗酒和子女适应之间关系的变量。她目前的目标是达到这份申请的职业发展计划中提出的目标。候选人概述了为期五年的强化培训，包括指导、统计建模(特别是结构方程建模和分层线性建模)、资质和研究道德行为方面的高级培训。除了这些培训活动，职业发展计划的一个主要重点将是进行一项短期纵向研究，审查可能缓和父母酗酒和青少年适应之间关系的心理社会变量。这项研究的主要目的是：1)考察个体特征(如自我价值感、应对能力)是否调节父母酗酒与青春期适应之间的关系，以及这些潜在调节因素施加影响的方式是否随着时间的推移而变化；2)确定个人环境的各方面(如家庭、学校、同伴环境)是否在父母酗酒与青春期适应之间的关系中发挥显著的调节作用，以及具体的背景影响是否随着时间的推移而改变；3)研究个体的特征与其所处环境之间是否存在交互作用，从而可能影响青少年的心理或药物滥用问题的发展；4)探索所建议的调节变量是否直接或通过潜伏和/或潜伏者效应对父母酗酒与青少年适应之间的关系产生影响；以及5)研究所建议的调节变量对父母酗酒与青少年适应之间的关系的影响是否因青少年的性别和/或父母的性别而异。576名青少年及其家长在9年级时和一年后10年级时接受一套自填式问卷调查。这些措施将评估父母使用药物、青少年心理适应(例如，抑郁、焦虑、药物滥用)和各种心理社会变量，这些变量被假设为缓和父母酗酒和青少年适应之间的关系(例如，应对技巧、家庭功能、学校参与)。从这项研究中获得的数据将主要使用候选人在培训期间将获得的高级统计技术/技能(例如，结构方程建模)进行分析。此外，这些数据将被用作一项更大、更广泛、更长期的纵向调查的基础，旨在检查父母酗酒和青少年心理适应之间的潜在过程。