Prevention of child maltreatment: A focus on social norms and corporal punishment

描述（由申请人提供）：我的总体职业目标是通过减少体罚和虐待儿童的发生率为儿童的福祉做出贡献。我的主要长期职业目标是：a）成为儿童虐待预防领域的独立和创新调查员，重点是减少体罚的流行，B）成为宣传，开发和测试社区和多层次干预措施（例如，基于媒体和有针对性的运动），旨在改变与虐待儿童风险有关的社会规范。为了推进这一研究路线，我将追求以下五个培训目标，以发展技能：1）进行道德和文化能力的虐待儿童研究，2）定性研究方法，3）先进的定量分析和调查研究方法，4）转化研究发展社区层面，社会规范干预措施，和5）学术领导。五位共同导师将指导我在满足这些目标与他们的专业知识在儿童虐待研究（默里斯特劳斯博士），定性方法（卡尔肯德尔博士），先进的定量方法（珍妮特赖斯博士），社会规范研究（威廉德容博士），和学术领导（汤姆法利博士），分别。这些导师将在我的职业发展和研究计划中提供个性化的指导。该研究计划有三个具体目标：1）Meta分析和审查：评估先前为改变与虐待儿童风险和/或父母使用体罚相关的社会规范所做的干预努力的效果，2）定性研究：探索与体罚使用和虐待儿童风险相关的理论、工具和干预发展相关的问题，以及3）基于社区的调查：探讨协会和有关体罚，相关的结构，并使用体罚的社会规范之间的变化。将准备后续应用程序，以进行人口一级的规范评估，并制定和测试旨在减少使用体罚和防止虐待儿童的创新社区或多层次干预措施。 相关性：虐待儿童危害儿童的健康，并增加他们日后出现问题的风险，如吸毒、吸烟、肥胖、抑郁和亲密伴侣暴力。这项研究将为制定旨在改变社会规范的社区一级干预措施提供信息（即，（a）关于体罚的态度、知识和行为），以减少儿童身体虐待及其后遗症的发生率。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): My overarching career goal is to contribute to the well-being of children by reducing the incidence of corporal punishment and child maltreatment. My main long term career objectives are to: a) Become an independent and innovative investigator in the field of child maltreatment prevention with a focus on reducing the prevalence of corporal punishment, b) Become a leader in the under-studied area of informing, developing and testing the effectiveness of community- and multi-level interventions (e.g., media-based and targeted campaigns) designed to alter social norms related to child maltreatment risk. To advance this line of research, I will pursue the following five training objectives to develop skills in: 1) conducting ethically and culturally competent child maltreatment research, 2) qualitative research methods, 3) advanced quantitative analytic and survey research methods, 4) translational research for developing community-level, social norms interventions, and 5) academic leadership. Five co-mentors will guide me in meeting these objectives with their expertise in child maltreatment research (Dr. Murray Straus), qualitative methods (Dr. Carl Kendall), advanced quantitative methods (Dr. Janet Rice), social norms research (Dr. William DeJong), and academic leadership (Dr. Tom Farley), respectively. These mentors will provide individualized guidance throughout my career development and research plans. The research plan has three specific aims: 1) Meta- analysis and review: To assess the effects of prior inten/ention efforts to change social norms relevant to child maltreatment risk and/or parents' use of corporal punishment, 2) Qualitative study: To explore issues relevant to informing theory, instrument, and intervention development regarding corporal punishment use and child maltreatment risk, and 3) Community-based survey: To explore associations and variations between perceived social norms about corporal punishment, related constructs, and use of corporal punishment. Follow-up applications will be prepared to conduct population-level norms' assessments and to develop and test an innovative community- or multi-level intervention designed to reduce use of corporal punishment and prevent child maltreatment. RELEVANCE: Child maltreatment jeopardizes the health of children and raises their risk for later problems such as drug use, smoking, obesity, depression, and intimate partner violence. This research will inform the development of a community-level intervention designed to shift social norms (i.e., attitudes, knowledge, and behaviors) regarding corporal punishment in order to reduce rates of child physical maltreatment and its sequelae.