Does coercive process play a role in adolescent dating violence?

强制过程在青少年约会暴力中起作用吗？

• 批准号: 8702521
• 负责人: Richard Eliot Heyman
• 金额: $ 22.93万
• 依托单位: NEW YORK UNIVERSITY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2014
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2014-07-01 至 2016-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8702521
• 关键词: 18 year old; Address; Adolescent; Adolescent Behavior; Adult; Aggressive behavior; Back; Behavior; Behavioral; Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.); Characteristics; Child; Coercion; Conflict (Psychology); Couples; Development; Divorce; Ecology; Effectiveness; Effectiveness of Interventions; Exhibits; Family; Family Violence; Future; Hand; Health Care Costs; Heart; Hostility; Individual; Injury; Intervention; Investigation; Lead; Learning; Light; Literature; Longitudinal Studies; Modeling; Negative Reinforcements; New York City; Outcome; Pain; Parents; Pattern; Physical aggression; Play; Prevention; Preventive Intervention; Process; Psychological reinforcement; Public Health; Recording of previous events; Research; Research Personnel; Risk Factors; Role; Schools; Science; Scientist; Siblings; Testing; Time; Training; United States National Institutes of Health; Vent; Violence; Work; Youth; boys; dating violence; dating violence prevention; efficacy trial; experience; girls; improved; male; malleable risk; partner violence; prevent; public health relevance; social; stem; success; theories

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Adolescent dating violence is alarmingly common and exacts a substantial toll on public health. It exhibits substantial stability and may become deeply entrenched by adulthood. Given these difficulties, the prevention of adolescent dating violence has become a concern of the CDC, NIH, and several noted investigators. We, in concert with several colleagues, offer the following set of observations, which frame the problem at hand and the research that we believe needs to be done: (1) "Clearly we've only just begun" to learn how to pre- vent dating violence. Rigorous efficacy trials have been rare and have produced sometimes promising but sometimes mixed results. We need to do better. (2) Dating violence prevention would be enhanced by the identification of malleable risk factors that can become new intervention targets. (3) There are clear indications in the research literature that adolescent couples' relationship dynamics are important factors in dating violence. However, the field is just beginning to understand what those dynamics are. (4) We believe it highly likely that the discovery of additional relationship dynamics that undergird dating violence will ultimately lead to enhanced interventions to prevent it. Accordingly, we are proposing an observational [longitudinal] study of 100 New York City 14- to 18-year- old dating couples in order to test the hypothesis that some adolescent couples may inadvertently provide one another with "basic training" in hostile behavior, ultimately leading to violence. This hypothesis stems from Gerald Patterson and colleagues' groundbreaking work showing the power of such "coercive processes" in explaining parent-child and sibling dynamics that contribute to child aggression. While some have hypothesized the role of coercive process in adolescent couples' dating violence, the model has yet to be directly tested. To evaluate the role of coercion in youth dating violence, we intend to apply our team's expertise in intimate violence, couples observation, and development to the execution of the following aims: Aim 1: Test the fundamental "basic training" premise of the coercion model - that the occurrence of aversive and non-aversive behaviors is tied to their effectiveness in terminating conflict. We hypothesize that behaviors more effective in terminating conflict will be performed at a higher rate. If aversie behavior is more effective than non-aversive behavior, it will be performed at a proportionally higher rate; and vice versa. ¿ Aim 2: Test the association of coercive process and dating violence. We hypothesize that violence will be elevated [and/or increasing] in couples for whom aversive behaviors are proportionally more effective than non-aversive ones in terminating conflict, and show higher rates of reciprocation during conflict. ¿ Aim 3: Determine whether other previously identified risk factors (e.g., anti-sociality, family violence) explain dating violence via their impact on coercion, or whether coercion explains [levels and/or change in] dating violence independent of these factors' influences.

描述（由申请人提供）：青少年约会暴力非常普遍，对公众健康造成了严重影响。它表现出相当大的稳定性，并可能变得很深