Within-Incident Spillover of Family Aggression

家庭攻击事件的内部溢出

• 批准号: 8291980
• 负责人: Amy Dyanna Marshall
• 金额: $ 21.58万
• 依托单位: PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY, THE
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2011
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2011-07-01 至 2014-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8291980
• 关键词: 3 year old; Address; Adverse effects; Age; Aggressive behavior; Alcohol abuse; Alcohol consumption; Area; Behavior; Behavioral; Characteristics; Child; Clinical; Communities; Conflict (Psychology); Couples; Crowding; Data; Data Collection; Development; Emotional; Emotions; Exposure to; Family; Family Process; Family Relationship; Family dynamics; Fathers; Feeling; Fostering; Frequencies; Fright; Future; Goals; Guilt; Health Benefit; Home environment; Household; Individual; Investigation; Measurement; Measures; Methodology; Methods; Modeling; Mothers; Nature; Outcome; Parenting behavior; Parents; Pattern; Penetration; Population; Prevention; Prevention program; Process; Process Measure; Public Health; Relative (related person); Reporting; Research; Research Personnel; Risk; Safety; Sampling; Stress; System; Techniques; Telephone Interviews; Time; Translating; Woman; Work; adverse outcome; design; early childhood; experience; high risk; insight; intervention program; men; perpetrators; psychologic; success; theories; trait

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Aggression within the family is pervasive and has considerable adverse effects on children. Given surprisingly high rates of inter-parental aggression among couples with young children and the increased likelihood of parent-to-child aggression among aggressive couples, this study is designed to examine the co- occurrence of inter-parental and parent-to-child aggression. The primary aim of the project is to determine the relative frequency and direction of within-incident aggression spillover (i.e., the direct transfer of aggression from one family subsystem to another family subsystem). Such information will assist in understanding whether the adverse outcomes for children who witness inter-parental aggression may be partly due to children being the targets of aggression within the same immediate context of inter-parental aggression. In addition, it will help determine whether the co-occurrence of family aggression is due to one form of aggression either directly or indirectly leading to another form of aggression, as well as shared etiological factors. To better understand the process and context of aggression spillover, relations between within-incident aggression spillover and incident-specific predictor variables will be examined. Further, to identify which families are at risk for experiencing aggression spillover, relations between longitudinal individual- and family-level variables and aggression spillover will be examined. This work will indicate whether constructs assessed as traits or behavioral tendencies function at the level of the incident to predict aggression and aggression spillover. This project will leverage recruitment and data collection efforts from an existing community sample of 125 couples. When their first-born child is three years old, measurement of the processes and context of family aggression will be added through in-depth quarterly telephone interviews with each parent. Non-identifiable data collection techniques will be used to minimize under-reporting. This sample is perfectly designed for the success of the study aims as it includes high- and low-risk families, and early childhood is a time of increased family stress when rates of PCA begin to peak and children are most likely to be involved in episodes of IPA. This study will offer a better understanding of the context, processes, and mechanisms of aggression spillover, providing a means with which to interpret the substantial inter-parental and parent-to-child aggression co- occurrence rates. In turn, more valuable theories regarding the processes and family dynamics involved in family aggression will be developed. The methodology will provide a means of assessing family aggression that gets closer to the incident than prior studies, while maintaining feasibility and alleviating many limitations of often used measures family aggression. By examining the function of predictor variables at the level of the incident, greater causal inference will be gained. Further, this work will provide a conceptual, empirical, and methodological integration of the traditionally distinct fields of marital and parent-child aggression. Study results will foster the development of effective prevention and treatment models that address the intertwined nature of family conflict.

描述（由申请人提供）：家庭内的攻击是普遍存在的，对儿童有相当大的不利影响。鉴于有年幼子女的夫妇中父母间攻击的发生率高得惊人，而攻击性夫妇中父母对子女攻击的可能性增加，本研究旨在研究父母间攻击和父母对子女攻击的共同发生。该项目的主要目的是确定事件内攻击溢出的相对频率和方向（即，攻击性从一个家庭子系统直接转移到另一个家庭子系统）。这些信息将有助于了解是否为儿童目睹父母间的侵略的不利后果可能部分是由于儿童的侵略目标在同一个直接的背景下的父母间的侵略。此外，它将有助于确定是否共同发生的家庭攻击是由于一种形式的攻击直接或间接导致另一种形式的攻击，以及共同的病因因素。为了更好地理解攻击溢出的过程和背景，事件内攻击溢出和特定事件的预测变量之间的关系将被检查。此外，要确定哪些家庭有风险，经历侵略溢出，纵向个人和家庭层面的变量和侵略溢出之间的关系将被检查。这项工作将表明是否结构评估为特质或行为倾向的功能，在事件的水平，以预测侵略和侵略溢出。该项目将利用现有社区样本125对夫妇的招募和数据收集工作。当他们的第一个孩子三岁时，将通过每季度对每位父母进行深入的电话采访，增加对家庭攻击过程和背景的测量。将使用无法识别的数据收集技术，以尽量减少少报。这一样本是为成功实现研究目标而精心设计的，因为它包括高风险和低风险家庭，幼儿期是家庭压力增加的时期，此时PCA的发病率开始达到高峰，儿童最有可能出现IPA。本研究将有助于更好地理解攻击溢出的背景、过程和机制，并为解释父母间和父母对子女的攻击共现率提供一种手段。反过来，更有价值的理论，有关的过程和家庭动态参与家庭攻击将被开发。该方法将提供一种评估家庭攻击的手段，比以前的研究更接近事件，同时保持可行性并减轻经常使用的家庭攻击措施的许多局限性。通过在事件水平上检验预测变量的功能，可以获得更大的因果推断。此外，这项工作将提供一个概念，经验和方法的整合传统上不同的领域的婚姻和亲子攻击。研究结果将促进发展有效的预防和治疗模式，解决家庭冲突的相互交织的性质。