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

描述：参见说明。说明申请的广泛、长期目标和具体目标，并提及 该项目（即，与原子能机构的使命相关）。简要描述研究设计和实现这些目标的方法。描述 你将用来追求这些目标的基本原理和技术。 此外，用两三句话，用通俗的语言描述这项研究与公共卫生的相关性。如果申请得到资助， 这样的描述将成为公开信息。因此，不包括专有/机密信息。不要超过空间 提供了 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， 与青少年性风险行为有关的后果。尽管性风险行为 是一种二元行为，几乎所有的社会认知理论都强调基于个体的变量， 解释行为。通常情况下，访谈是与个别青少年进行，评估是 他们对关系的描述，然后这些评估被用来预测个人的 性风险行为很少有研究同时研究一对青少年夫妇， 从每个成员的措施，以预测未来的性活动的二分体。目前的总体目标是 R 01提交是为了在以下样本中确定夫妇性风险行为的解释模型： 未婚，非同居的拉丁裔和非洲裔美国人高中年龄的情侣， 有联系此外，本研究还将对青少年夫妇的父母进行研究。这样做 本研究将运用认知、情绪和情绪调节的理论，以及一种新的情绪调节理论， 父母监控对青少年性风险行为的研究。研究重点是 拉丁裔和非裔美国青少年及其父母的研究。青少年及其 家长将从纽约纽约区布朗克斯的公立高中招募， 前瞻性地跟踪。该研究在几个方面具有创新性。首先，它适当地将 在青少年浪漫关系和家庭的更广泛背景下的青少年性活动 动力学第二，我们将研究一对青少年夫妇的双方成员，并将前瞻性地预测， 那对夫妇的性行为大多数关于青少年性行为的研究都是在 个别青少年。本研究还将创新性的理论模型应用于夫妻关系的研究， 家庭对青少年危险性行为的影响与以前的研究相比，这项研究承认， 情绪和情绪调节的重要性作为青少年的潜在重要决定因素 性冒险本研究将测试四个有趣的模型的夫妇成员的影响时，分析 个体成员对夫妇性活动的贡献，并将研究 重要的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， 基于发展科学的父母监控三过程理论。研究 代表了一个系统的，以理论为基础的和全面的研究方法，以青少年性 风险行为通过以新颖的方式阐明性行为所处的情感、夫妻和家庭环境， 行为发生时，该研究将导致制定更丰富，更相关的干预措施，以防止 非裔美国人和拉丁美洲青年的青少年性风险行为。

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.