HOMELESS YOUTH--ALCOHOL ABUSE AND PSYCHOSOCIAL RISK

该项目将帮助我们更好地识别和了解 街头青年的家庭历史、发展模式和过程，以及 与其受害有关的社会环境条件 在街头，他们参与对他人的暴力，以及他们的 酗酒和滥用。特别令人感兴趣的是酗酒的作用 使街头青年(13-20岁)面临成为 也是暴力的实施者。据推测，酒精会加剧 与街头生活相关的身体和心理风险， 从而为成年人的无家可归设定了方向。 该项目包括对400名无家可归的青少年进行采访 街道和青年收容所，以测试由 G.R.帕特森和他的同事。关于累积风险的影响和 强制性的家庭程序。至少100个父母/父母的子样本 这些青少年的等价者也将接受采访。此外。一个 240名青少年的亚样本，选择高水平或低水平的 饮酒情况将在两年内按季度进行跟踪。 句号。数据将使用标准回归技术和 重复测量分析。以及结构方程建模和 生存分析。非洲裔美国人和女性将被过度抽样，因此 我们可以更好地理解性别和种族的影响 根据病因、危险因素和病程而存在 无家可归的人。

This project will help us better identify and understand the factors in street youth's family histories, developmental patterns and processes, and the socio-environmental conditions that are linked to their victimization on the streets, their involvement in violence against others, and their alcohol use and abuse. Of particular interest is the role of alcohol abuse in placing street youth (ages 13-20) at risk of becoming both a victim of and a perpetrator of violence. It is hypothesized that alcohol exacerbates the physical and psychological risks associated with life on the streets, thus setting the course for adult homelessness. The project involves interviews with 400 homeless adolescents on the streets and through youth shelters in order to test a model developed by G.R. Patterson and colleagues. about the effects of cumulative risk and coercive family processes. A subsample of at least 100 parents/parent equivalents of these adolescents will also be interviewed. In addition. a subsample of 240 adolescents, selected for either high or low levels of alcohol use will be followed, on a quarterly basis, over a two year period. Data will be analyzed using standard regression techniques and repeated measures analysis. as well as structural equation modeling and survival analysis. African-Americans and females will be oversampled so that we can better understand whether or what gender and ethnic effects exist in terms of the etiologic factors, the risk factors, and the course of homelessness.