Abused and non-abused females' high-risk online behaviors: Impact on development

受虐待和未受虐待女性的高风险在线行为：对发展的影响

• 批准号: 8878834
• 负责人: JENNIE G NOLL
• 金额: $ 56.89万
• 依托单位: CINCINNATI CHILDRENS HOSP MED CTR
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2012
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2012-08-10 至 2016-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8878834
• 关键词: Adolescence; Adolescent; Adolescent Development; Adult; Age; Attitude; Battered Women; Behavior; Bioinformatics; Buffers; Characteristics; Child; Child Sexual Abuse; Clinical Psychology; Communication; Computer software; Computers; Consumption; Crime; Data; Descriptor; Development; Effectiveness; Exhibits; Exposure to; Family; Female; Female Adolescents; Grant; Home environment; Income; Internet; Intervention; Interview; Knowledge; Lead; Low income; Mass Media; Minority; Modeling; Observational Study; Parents; Patient Self-Report; Policy Maker; Pornography; Prevalence; Prevention; Preventive Intervention; Procedures; Reporting; Research; Risk; Risk Factors; Safety; Schools; Secondary Prevention; Sexual Development; Sexual abuse; Social Behavior; Social Environment; Social Network; Surveys; Teenagers; Telephone; Testing; Time; Victimization; Youth; abuse victim; aged; base; design; experience; high risk; high risk sexual behavior; in vivo; innovation; meetings; multidisciplinary; parental monitoring; peer; programs; psychosocial; revictimization; safety study; sex; sexual victimization; social networking website; socioeconomics; trafficking

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The majority of US adolescents aged 12-18 have regular access to the internet and a significant portion engage in High-risk Internet Behaviors (HRIBs) including online exposure to sexually explicit content and engaging in online social behaviors that could lead to internet-initiated victimization. Current internet safety programs rel heavily on parental monitoring as a primary means of protecting teens yet over 40% of teen internet users report unwanted exposure to sexual content with another 20% admitting to intentionally seeking online pornographic materials. Moreover, an increasing number of parents allow their kids to over-report their age in order to be granted access to social networking sites-places where risky online social behaviors such as divulging personal identifying information and posting sexually provocative self-descriptors increase vulnerability for online exploitation, and where most internet-initiated sex crimes originate. Extant internet safety studies are highly criticized for reliance on adolescent self-reports. Hence, there is limited objective knowledge about the magnitude and impact of HRIBs and, of equal importance, which teens might be the most susceptible. Our research shows that sexually abused adolescents may be especially vulnerable to HRIBs because these victims demonstrate a greater propensity toward pornography consumption, provocative online self-presentations, online sexual advances, offline meetings, risky sexual behaviors and sexual re-victimization than do their non-abused peers. Our multidisciplinary team will conduct a naturalistic study of 400 adolescent females aged 12-15; half of whom recently experienced substantiated sexual abuse. The study will be the first to go beyond adolescent self-reports of HRIBs via (1) assessing adolescents' "internet footprints" by recording all URL activity within a 4-week period and quantifying URLs for adult and sexual content, and (2) objectively quantifying HRIBs both online and in-vivo in the lab. These procedures, along with a comprehensive psychosocial interview, will be repeated every 15 months for 2 subsequent time points in an accelerated longitudinal, cross-sequential design allowing for cross-lag and developmental modeling across adolescence from age 12-18. The overall objective is to fully inform teen internet safety campaigns by providing objective HRIBs prevalence rates and articulating their impact on adolescent development. By focusing on the high-risk group of sexually abused adolescents and testing a conceptual model which includes a comprehensive set of risk and protective factors, findings will not only enhance treatment models for abuse victims, but will orient parents and policy makers about the best ways to promote internet safety for teens in general. This innovative research will fill important gaps in school-based internet safety programs by highlighting the implications for provocative self-presentations and recommending ways to protect teens whose parents are not internet savvy or are otherwise uninvolved. Results will enhance secondary prevention and intervention efforts by identifying potent, adolescent, family and contextual variables that serve to curtail the impact of HRIBs once they occur.

描述（由申请人提供）：大多数 12-18 岁的美国青少年经常上网，其中很大一部分人从事高风险互联网行为 (HRIB)，包括在线接触露骨色情内容以及参与可能导致互联网发起的受害的在线社交行为。当前的互联网安全计划在很大程度上依赖于家长监控，将其作为保护青少年的主要手段，但超过 40% 的青少年互联网用户报告称自己无意中接触过性内容，另有 20% 的人承认故意寻找在线色情材料。此外，越来越多的父母允许他们的孩子多报年龄，以便获得访问社交网站的权限，在这些网站上，泄露个人身份信息和发布性挑衅性自我描述等危险的在线社交行为增加了在线剥削的脆弱性，也是大多数互联网发起的性犯罪的发源地。现有的互联网安全研究因依赖青少年的自我报告而受到严厉批评。因此，对于 HRIB 的严重程度和影响，以及同样重要的是，哪些青少年可能最容易受到影响，客观知识有限。我们的研究表明，遭受性虐待的青少年可能特别容易受到性侵犯，因为与未受虐待的同龄人相比，这些受害者表现出更大的消费色情、挑衅性在线自我展示、网上性挑逗、线下会面、危险性行为和再次性受害的倾向。我们的多学科团队将对 400 名 12-15 岁的青春期女性进行自然主义研究；其中一半人最近遭受过证实的性虐待。该研究将首次超越青少年自我报告的 HRIB，通过以下方式进行：(1) 通过记录 4 周内的所有 URL 活动并量化成人和性内容的 URL，评估青少年的“互联网足迹”；(2) 客观地量化在线和实验室体内的 HRIB。这些程序以及全面的心理社会访谈将每 15 个月在两个后续时间点重复进行，以加速纵向、交叉顺序设计，允许在 12-18 岁的青春期进行交叉滞后和发育建模。总体目标是通过提供客观的 HRIB 流行率并阐明其对青少年发展的影响，为青少年互联网安全运动提供充分信息。通过关注遭受性虐待青少年的高风险群体，并测试包含一整套风险和保护因素的概念模型，研究结果不仅将增强虐待受害者的治疗模式，还将为家长和政策制定者提供促进青少年互联网安全的最佳方法。这项创新研究将强调挑衅性自我展示的影响，并提出保护父母不精通互联网或不参与互联网的青少年的方法，从而填补学校互联网安全计划的重要空白。结果将通过确定有效的青少年、家庭和背景变量来加强二级预防和干预工作，这些变量有助于减少 HRIB 一旦发生。