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伙伴的身体，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，危险性行为，药物滥用， 和学业失败此外，在青少年时期实施暴力和性侵犯的人， 在成人亲密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 有可能遏制家庭暴力的发生率和后果。尽管有这些 关键需求、理论驱动和基于研究的预防方案明显缺乏， 增加或减少青少年经历约会暴力的可能性的因素很差， 明白此外，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，心理虐待是否先于身体暴力？身体暴力是否先于性行为 侵略性？发展信息在识别有约会暴力风险的青年方面将是非常宝贵的 并最终防止暴力行为的发生和升级。 为了解决这些问题和文献中的空白，我建议进行纵向研究 评估约会暴力的实施和受害，以及可改变的风险和保护因素， 来自不同种族和社会经济背景的青少年。参与者将被招募， 标准和替代高中。约会历史，约会暴力的经历（犯罪和 受害），以及潜在的可改变的风险和保护因素将在基线进行评估， 几年后。总共将招募500名参与者，这将提供足够的统计能力， 实现本研究的主要目的。这个K23奖项的总体目标是（1）提高我的 知识和扩大我的研究到暴力预防领域，（2）提供一个健全的 基金会制定了一个约会暴力预防计划，将明确针对已确定的风险， 保护因素。拟议的研究性学习将使我能够运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践问题，以便我能够接近未来 从真正发展的角度进行研究。

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.