Affective influences on adolescent sexual risk behavior: Couple & family contexts

说明：请参阅说明。说明应用程序的广泛、长期目标和具体目标，并提及与健康相关的 项目(即与该机构使命的相关性)。简明扼要地描述实现这些目标的研究设计和方法。描述 你将用来追求这些目标的基本原理和技术。 此外，用两三句简单明了的话描述这项研究与公共卫生的相关性。如果应用程序得到资助，则此 原样的描述将成为公开信息。因此，不包括专有/机密信息。不要超过空格 但前提是。 拉丁裔和非洲裔美国青少年仍然不成比例地受到负面健康的影响 与青春期性危险行为相关的后果。尽管事实是性危险行为 是一种二元行为，几乎所有的社会认知理论都强调以个体为基础的变量 解释行为。通常，对个别青少年进行面谈，并进行评估 关系的特征，然后这些评估被用来预测个人的 性危险行为。很少有研究对青春期夫妇的两个成员都进行研究，或者使用 来自每个成员的测量，以预测该二分体未来的性行为。当前的总体目标 R01意见书是在以下样本中确定夫妻性行为风险行为的解释性模型 未婚、不同居的拉丁裔和非裔美国高中年龄的二人组 已链接。此外，本研究还将研究青春期夫妇的父母。在这样做的时候， 本研究将运用认知、情绪和情绪调节的理论，以及一种新的认知、情绪和情绪调节理论 父母监督对青少年夫妻性行为风险行为的研究。研究的重点是 关于11年级和12年级的拉丁裔和非裔美国青少年及其父母。青少年和他们的 家长将从纽约州布朗克斯区的公立高中招募，并将 预期会被跟踪。这项研究在几个方面具有创新性。首先，它适当地与背景相关联 青春期恋爱关系和家庭背景下的青春期性行为 动力学。其次，我们将研究一对青少年夫妇的两个成员，并前瞻性地预测， 那对夫妇的性行为。大多数关于青少年性行为的研究都是通过 个别青少年。这项研究还将创新的理论模型应用于夫妻和 家庭因素对青少年性行为的影响。与之前的研究不同，这项研究承认 情绪和情绪调节作为青少年潜在重要决定因素的重要性 性行为冒险。这项研究将检验四个有趣的夫妻成员影响模型 个体成员的特征对夫妻性行为的贡献，并将进行考察 重要夫妻关系变量的调节作用。此外，这项研究还将测试一部小说 建立在发展科学基础上的父母监控三过程理论。这项研究 代表了一种系统的、以理论为基础的、全面的青春期性研究方法 危险行为。通过以新颖的方式阐明性行为中的情感、夫妇和家庭背景 行为发生时，研究将导致制定更丰富、更相关的干预措施来预防 非裔美国人和拉美裔青年中的青春期性行为危险行为。

DESCRIPTION: See instructions. State the application's broad, long-term objectives and specific aims, making reference to the health relatedness of the project (i.e., relevance to the mission of the agency). Describe concisely the research design and methods for achieving these goals. Describe the rationale and techniques you will use to pursue these goals. In addition, in two or three sentences, describe in plain, lay language the relevance of this research to public health. If the application is funded, this description, as is, will become public information. Therefore, do not include proprietary/confidential information. DO NOT EXCEED THE SPACE PROVIDED. Latino and African American adolescents remain disproportionately affected by the negative health consequences associated with adolescent sexual risk behavior. Despite the fact that sexual risk behavior is a dyadic behavior, almost all of the social-cognitive theories emphasize individual-based variables to explain behavior. Typically, interviews are conducted with individual adolescents, assessments are made of their characterizations of relationships, and then these assessments are used to predict the individual's sexual risk behavior. Little research has studied both members of an adolescent couple or has used measures from each member to predict future sexual activity of that dyad. The overall aim of the present R01 submission is to identify explanatory models of couple sexual risk behavior among a sample of unmarried, non co-habiting Latino and African American high school-aged dyads that are romantically linked. In addition, the present research also will study the parents of adolescent couples. In doing so, the present research will apply theories of cognition, emotion and emotion regulation, and a new theory of parental monitoring to the study of adolescent sexual risk behavior among couples. The study is focused on Latino and African American adolescents in grades 11 and 12 and their parents. Adolescents and their parents will be recruited from public high schools in the Bronx borough of New York, NY, and will be prospectively followed. The research is innovative in several respects. First, it appropriately contextualizes adolescent sexual activity in the broader contexts of adolescent romantic relationships and family dynamics. Second, we will study both members of an adolescent couple and will forecast, prospectively, the sexual behavior of that couple. Most research on adolescent sexual behavior is conducted with individual adolescents. The study also will apply innovative theoretical models to the study of couple and family influences on youth sexual risk behavior. In contrast to previous research, the study acknowledges the importance of emotions and emotion regulation as potentially important determinants of adolescent sexual risk taking. The study will test four intriguing models of couple member influence when analyzing the contribution of characteristics that individual members bring to couple sexual activity, and will examine the moderating effects of important couple relationship variables. In addition, the research will test a novel three-process theory of parental monitoring that is grounded in developmental science. The study represents a systematic, theory-based and comprehensive approach to the study of adolescent sexual risk behavior. By elucidating, in novel ways, the emotional, couple and family contexts within which sexual behavior occurs, the study will lead to the development of richer, more relevant interventions to prevent adolescent sexual risk behavior among African American and Latino youth.