Children and Political Violence in Northern Ireland

北爱尔兰的儿童与政治暴力

• 批准号: 7672400
• 负责人: EDWARD MARK CUMMINGS
• 金额: $ 50.36万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2005
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2005-06-06 至 2013-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7672400
• 关键词: Address; Adolescent; Affect; Age; Alcohol abuse; Area; Child; Child Development; Classification; Communities; Conflict (Psychology); Data; Development; Ecology; Emotional; Ethnic group; Exposure to; Family; Family Violence; Focus Groups; Functional disorder; Gender; Home environment; International; Interview; Investigation; Link; Measures; Mediator of activation protein; Mental Health; Modeling; Mothers; Neighborhoods; Northern Ireland; Parents; Pathway interactions; Personal Satisfaction; Phase; Predictive Value; Process; Protestant; Recording of previous events; Regulation; Request for Applications; Research; Risk; Sampling; Schedule; Security; Social Environment; Social Identification; Social support; Testing; Time; Violence; War; Work; aged; base; child well being; innovation; microsystems; peace; psychologic; public health relevance; segregation; social

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The effects on children of political violence, and links with community and domestic conflict, are matters of international concern. The mechanisms by which political (i.e., ethnic) conflict and community violence (criminal, sectarian) relate to the family, and, in turn, children's well-being and development are little understood. Children are at risk regardless of formal accords, which may or may not last, as long as sectarianism and segregation between ethnic groups remain. This proposal is to continue investigation of a social ecological model for the effects of political violence on children. The longitudinal sample consists of 700 working class families in Catholic and Protestant areas of Belfast, Northern Ireland. In Phase 1 both mothers and children were interviewed in their home on all aspects of this model (i.e., political, community, family, child regulation and adjustment). Preliminary analyses support the social ecological perspective. A second wave of data will be collected in 2007-2008. Given the unique sample, and the promise of initial model testing, this application requests support to continue to follow this sample for three more waves, spaced one year apart, towards better elucidating the mechanisms, pathways, and conditions underlying associations between political tension and child maladjustment over time. This is a unique opportunity for studying dynamic change processes in these multiple and interrelated contexts over time, with implications for understanding change processes affecting children. Phase 2 is needed to more adequately test and examine the explanatory and predictive value of this perspective, and provides a unique opportunity to study continuity and change in contexts of political violence affecting children and adolescents. This research thus will contribute to understanding of ecological, psychological, and familial processes underlying effects of ethnic conflict in Northern Ireland on children and adolescents, with implications for other regions of the world with histories of ethnic conflict and political violence. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: This study will contribute to understanding of ecological, psychological, and familial processes underlying effects of ethnic conflict in Northern Ireland on children, providing a template for study of the impact of children's exposure to sectarian violence worldwide. More generally, understanding of relations between community violence, family functioning, adolescents' regulatory processes, and adolescent adjustment will be uniquely advanced.

描述（由申请人提供）：政治暴力对儿童的影响以及与社区和家庭冲突的联系是国际关注的问题。人们对政治（即种族）冲突和社区暴力（犯罪、宗派）与家庭以及儿童的福祉和发展之间的关系的机制知之甚少。无论正式协议如何，只要宗派主义和族裔群体之间的隔离仍然存在，儿童就面临风险，这些协议可能会持续也可能不会持续。该提案旨在继续研究政治暴力对儿童影响的社会生态模型。纵向样本由北爱尔兰贝尔法斯特天主教和新教地区的 700 个工人阶级家庭组成。在第一阶段，母亲和孩子都在家中接受了关于该模式各个方面（即政治、社区、家庭、儿童监管和调整）的采访。初步分析支持社会生态观点。第二波 数据将于2007-2008年收集。鉴于样本的独特性以及初始模型测试的承诺，本申请请求支持继续跟踪该样本，间隔一年，再进行三波研究，以更好地阐明随着时间的推移，政治紧张局势与儿童适应不良之间的潜在关联机制、途径和条件。这是一个独特的机会，可以研究这些多重且相互关联的背景下随着时间的推移的动态变化过程，对于理解影响儿童的变化过程具有重要意义。第二阶段需要更充分地测试和检验这一观点的解释和预测价值，并提供一个独特的机会来研究影响儿童和青少年的政治暴力背景下的连续性和变化。因此，这项研究将有助于理解北爱尔兰种族冲突对儿童和青少年的潜在影响的生态、心理和家庭过程，并对世界其他有种族冲突和政治暴力历史的地区产生影响。公共卫生相关性：这项研究将有助于了解北爱尔兰种族冲突对儿童的潜在影响的生态、心理和家庭过程，为研究全球儿童遭受宗派暴力的影响提供了模板。更一般地说，理解社区暴力、家庭暴力之间的关系 功能、青少年的监管过程和青少年的适应将得到独特的促进。