Prevention of child maltreatment: A focus on social norms and corporal punishment

描述(由申请人提供)：我的首要职业目标是通过减少体罚和虐待儿童的发生率，为儿童的福祉做出贡献。我长期的主要职业目标是：(A)成为防止虐待儿童领域的独立和创新的调查员，重点是减少体罚的流行；(B)在旨在改变与虐待儿童风险有关的社会规范的社区和多层次干预措施(例如，基于媒体的和有针对性的运动)的有效性的宣传、发展和测试方面，成为研究不足的领域的领导者。为了推进这一研究，我将追求以下五个培训目标，以发展技能：1)进行具有伦理和文化能力的虐待儿童研究，2)定性研究方法，3)先进的定量分析和调查研究方法，4)为发展社区层面的社会规范干预而进行的转化研究，以及5)学术领导力。五位共同导师将分别以他们在虐待儿童研究(Murray Straus博士)、定性方法(Carl Kendall博士)、高级定量方法(Janet Rice博士)、社会规范研究(William DeJong博士)和学术领导力(Tom Farley博士)方面的专长指导我实现这些目标。这些导师将在我的职业发展和研究计划中提供个性化的指导。研究计划有三个具体目标：1)元分析和回顾：评估先前努力改变与儿童虐待风险和/或父母使用体罚相关的社会规范的效果；2)定性研究：探索有关体罚使用和儿童虐待风险的信息理论、工具和干预发展的相关问题；3)社区调查：探索有关体罚的感知社会规范、相关结构和使用之间的联系和差异。将准备后续申请，以进行人口层面的规范评估，并开发和测试旨在减少使用体罚和防止虐待儿童的创新社区或多层次干预措施。 相关性：虐待儿童危害儿童的健康，并增加他们以后出现问题的风险，如吸毒、吸烟、肥胖、抑郁和亲密伴侣暴力。这项研究将为社区一级干预措施的发展提供信息，旨在改变有关体罚的社会规范(即态度、知识和行为)，以降低儿童遭受身体虐待及其后遗症的比率。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): My overarching career goal is to contribute to the well-being of children by reducing the incidence of corporal punishment and child maltreatment. My main long term career objectives are to: a) Become an independent and innovative investigator in the field of child maltreatment prevention with a focus on reducing the prevalence of corporal punishment, b) Become a leader in the under-studied area of informing, developing and testing the effectiveness of community- and multi-level interventions (e.g., media-based and targeted campaigns) designed to alter social norms related to child maltreatment risk. To advance this line of research, I will pursue the following five training objectives to develop skills in: 1) conducting ethically and culturally competent child maltreatment research, 2) qualitative research methods, 3) advanced quantitative analytic and survey research methods, 4) translational research for developing community-level, social norms interventions, and 5) academic leadership. Five co-mentors will guide me in meeting these objectives with their expertise in child maltreatment research (Dr. Murray Straus), qualitative methods (Dr. Carl Kendall), advanced quantitative methods (Dr. Janet Rice), social norms research (Dr. William DeJong), and academic leadership (Dr. Tom Farley), respectively. These mentors will provide individualized guidance throughout my career development and research plans. The research plan has three specific aims: 1) Meta- analysis and review: To assess the effects of prior inten/ention efforts to change social norms relevant to child maltreatment risk and/or parents' use of corporal punishment, 2) Qualitative study: To explore issues relevant to informing theory, instrument, and intervention development regarding corporal punishment use and child maltreatment risk, and 3) Community-based survey: To explore associations and variations between perceived social norms about corporal punishment, related constructs, and use of corporal punishment. Follow-up applications will be prepared to conduct population-level norms' assessments and to develop and test an innovative community- or multi-level intervention designed to reduce use of corporal punishment and prevent child maltreatment. RELEVANCE: Child maltreatment jeopardizes the health of children and raises their risk for later problems such as drug use, smoking, obesity, depression, and intimate partner violence. This research will inform the development of a community-level intervention designed to shift social norms (i.e., attitudes, knowledge, and behaviors) regarding corporal punishment in order to reduce rates of child physical maltreatment and its sequelae.