Longtitudinal investigation in the Risk and Protective Factors of Dating Violence

项目总结(见说明)： 大约25%的美国青少年受到约会对象的身体、心理或性虐待 每年。约会暴力的受害者经历了一系列毁灭性的后果，包括急性和 慢性精神和身体健康问题，自杀，犯罪，危险的性行为，药物滥用， 和学业不及格。此外，在青少年时期实施暴力和性侵犯的个人 在成年的亲密关系中，恋爱关系中继续这种行为的风险更高。 防止这种形式的暴力不仅会改善青少年的健康和生活，而且会 有可能遏制随后的家庭暴力的流行和后果。尽管如此 关键需求、理论驱动和以研究为基础的预防计划明显缺乏，以及 增加或降低青少年遭受约会暴力的可能性的因素很少。 明白了。此外，关于不同形式的约会暴力如何随着时间的推移而发展的数据很少。为 例如，心理虐待先于身体暴力吗？身体暴力先于性暴力吗？ 攻击性？发展信息在确定有约会暴力风险的青少年方面将是无价的。 并最终防止暴力行为的发生和升级。 为了解决文献中的这些问题和差距，我建议进行一项纵向研究 评估约会暴力的实施和受害，以及可修改的风险和保护因素 来自不同种族和社会经济背景的青少年。参与者将从以下地点招募 标准高中和非标准高中。约会历史，约会暴力的经历(实施和 受害)，潜在的可改变的风险和保护因素将在基线和1和2进行评估 之后的几年里。将招募500名参与者，这将提供足够的统计力量 达到本研究的主要目的。这个K23奖项的总体目标是：(1)推进我的 了解并扩大我在预防暴力领域的研究，以及(2)提供 为开发预防约会暴力计划的基金会，该计划将明确针对已确定的风险和 保护性因素。拟议的研究性学习将使我能够应用我目前的知识和技能基础 学习与预防研究有关的技术和实际问题，这样我就可以接近未来 研究工作是从真正的发展角度出发的。

PROJECT SUMMARY (See instructions): Approximately 25% of US teens are physically, psychologically, or sexually abused by dating partners each year. Victims of dating violence experience a host of devastating consequences, including acute and chronic mental and physical health problems, suicide, delinquency, risky sexual behavior, substance abuse, and school failure. Moreover, individuals who perpetrate violence and sexual aggression in their adolescent relationships are at a heightened risk for continuing this behavior in their adult intimate relationships. Preventing this form of violence would not only improve the health and lives of adolescents, but it would have the potential to curb the prevalence and consequences of subsequent domestic violence. Despite these critical needs, theoretically driven and research-based prevention programs are conspicuously lacking, and the factors that increase or decrease the likelihood of adolescents experiencing dating violence are poorly understood. In addition, few data exist on how the different forms of dating violence develop over time. For example, does psychological abuse precede physical violence? Does physical violence precede sexual aggression? Developmental information would be invaluable in identifying youth at risk for dating violence and to ultimately prevent the occurrence and escalation of violent behavior. To address these questions and gaps in the literature, I propose to conduct a longitudinal study assessing dating violence perpetration and victimization, and modifiable risk and protective factors in adolescents from ethnically and socioeconomically diverse backgrounds. Participants will be recruited from standard and alternative high schools. Dating history, experiences with dating violence (perpetration and victimization), and potential modifiable risk and protective factors will be assessed at baseline, and 1 and 2 years thereafter. A total of 500 participants will be recruited, which will provide sufficient statistical power to achieve the primary aims of this study. The overall objectives of this K23 award are (1) to advance my knowledge of and expand my research into the area of violence prevention, and (2) to provide a sound foundation for developing a dating violence prevention program that will explicitly target identified risk and protective factors. The proposed research study will allow me to apply my current knowledge and skill base to learning the technical and practical issues related to prevention research so I can approach future research endeavors from a truly developmental perspective.