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

描述（由申请人提供）：我的总体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。我的主要长期职业目标是：a)成为儿童虐待预防领域的独立和创新研究者，重点是减少体罚的流行；b)成为研究不足的领域的领导者，告知，开发和测试社区和多层次干预措施的有效性（例如，基于媒体和有针对性的活动），旨在改变与儿童虐待风险相关的社会规范。为了推进这条研究路线，我将追求以下五个培训目标，以培养以下技能：1)进行符合伦理和文化的儿童虐待研究；2)定性研究方法；3)先进的定量分析和调查研究方法；4)发展社区层面的转化研究，社会规范干预；5)学术领导。五位共同导师将分别用他们在儿童虐待研究（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（Tom Farley博士）方面的专业知识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。本研究计划有三个具体目标：1)荟萃分析和回顾：评估先前意向/意向努力对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影响；2)定性研究：探讨与体罚使用和儿童虐待风险相关的知识理论、工具和干预开发相关的问题；3)社区调查：探讨体罚感知社会规范、相关构念和体罚使用之间的关联和差异。将编写后续申请，以进行人口水平规范评估，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。

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.