Effects on Children of Persistent Exposure to Political Violence: Follow-up

持续接触政治暴力对儿童的影响：后续行动

• 批准号: 8470198
• 负责人: L ROWELL HUESMANN
• 金额: $ 36.44万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN AT ANN ARBOR
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2006
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2006-09-15 至 2015-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8470198
• 关键词: Accounting; Adolescence; Adult; Affect; Age; Aggressive behavior; Alcohol or Other Drugs use; Arousal; Behavior; Behavioral; Belief; Biological; Child; Childhood; Chronic; Clinical; Cognitive; Communities; Conflict (Psychology); Data; Data Analyses; Diagnostic; Emotional; Employment; Exposure to; Galvanic Skin Response; Goals; Growth; Health behavior; Hydrocortisone; Interpersonal Violence; Intervention; Interview; Lead; Link; Long-Term Effects; Longitudinal Studies; Measures; Mediating; Mediation; Mediator of activation protein; Mental Health; Monitor; Outcome; Paint; Palestinian; Parenting behavior; Parents; Participant; Patient Self-Report; Pattern; Perception; Phase; Play; Political Activities; Problem behavior; Process; Questionnaires; Recording of previous events; Risk; Role; Sampling; Self Concept; Social support; Substance abuse problem; Symptoms; Syndrome; System; Testing; Time; Violence; War; Youth; anti social; biological adaptation to stress; cohort; coping; criminal behavior; desensitization; design; early adolescence; economic outcome; emerging adult; emotion regulation; emotional factor; experience; externalizing behavior; follow-up; insight; interest; male; peer; post-traumatic stress; psychologic; response; social; social cognition; willingness; young adult; youth violence

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The present application is a continuation proposal for an ongoing longitudinal study of the effects of exposure to conflict and violence on the mental health and behavior of Palestinian and Israeli youth. Three cohorts of youth (originally ages 8, 11, and 14) have been assessed three times at one-year intervals. Analyses of the data collected through June 2010 have shown that exposure to ethnic-political and war violence is related to subsequent post-traumatic stress symptoms and aggression directed at peers. The goals of the current proposal are to continue analyses with the three waves of data collected by June 2010 and to collect one more wave of data with a more intense focus on the older cohort as they now reach adulthood (age 20 in 2013) in order to examine effects of cumulative exposure to violence on clinical syndromes, substance use, antisocial and aggressive behavior, and endorsement of politically-motivated violence. Additionally, we will examine age-relevant potential protective factors that we did not previously assess for this older cohort (e.g., civic engagement, employment, constructive activities, political activism, and post traumatic growth). Our focus on the older cohort is motivated by the recognition that early adulthood is a period in which new opportunities and experiences present challenges to adjustment and when age-salient protective factors may moderate the impact of persistent exposure to violence. However, for all age cohorts, we propose to extend our assessment of mental health outcomes and extend our examination of the role of emotional reactivity in response to ethnic-political violence exposure by collecting bio-markers (e.g., cortisol) and assessing skin conductance in response to viewing a video depicting interpersonal violence. This will allow us to test key theoretical propositions concerning mediating cognitive and emotional processes that might account for the long-term effects of violence exposure and distinguish between those highly exposed youth who display more externalizing problems and those who display more internalizing problems.

描述（由申请人提供）：本申请是一项持续的纵向研究的继续建议，该研究旨在研究暴露于冲突和暴力对巴勒斯坦和以色列青年的心理健康和行为的影响。三组青年（最初年龄为8岁、11岁和14岁）每隔一年进行三次评估。对截至2010年6月收集的数据进行的分析表明，遭受族裔政治暴力和战争暴力与随后的创伤后应激反应症状和对同伴的攻击有关。目前建议的目标是继续分析在2010年6月之前收集的三波数据，并收集另一波数据，更加侧重于年龄较大的群体，因为他们现在已经成年（2013年，20岁），以研究累积接触暴力对临床综合征、药物使用、反社会和攻击行为的影响，以及对政治暴力的支持此外，我们还将检查与年龄相关的潜在保护因素，这些因素我们以前没有对这个老年队列进行评估（例如，公民参与、就业、建设性活动、政治活动和创伤后成长）。我们之所以关注老年群体，是因为我们认识到，在成年早期，新的机会和经历对适应提出了挑战，而年龄上突出的保护因素可能会减轻持续遭受暴力的影响。然而，对于所有年龄组，我们建议扩展我们对心理健康结果的评估，并扩展我们对情绪反应在应对种族政治暴力中的作用的检查 通过收集生物标记（例如，皮质醇）和评估皮肤电导以响应观看描绘人际暴力的视频。这将使我们能够测试有关调解认知和情感过程的关键理论命题，这些过程可能会解释暴力暴露的长期影响，并区分那些表现出更多外部化问题的高度暴露青年和那些表现出更多内部化问题的青年。