PREDICTORS OF RELATIONSHIP VIOLENCE IN INNER CITY YOUTH

描述：(改编自调查员S摘要)：本研究 重点关注关系的预测因素、诱因和后遗症 市中心晚期青少年中的暴力行为。它建立在来自 为期四年的社区、家庭和同伴风险纵向研究 市中心青少年男性反社会行为的预测因素。通过 增加对这些男性及其女性伴侣的另外两次采访，以及 我们可以增加年龄、种族和居住地相似的女性 追踪亲密关系中暴力的前科。此外，还有一个 对情况和条件的人种志，这些条件是 关系暴力是为了通知纵向的焦点 定量研究。 这项研究的重点是社会成员中最有风险的严重 反社会和暴力行为，因暴力而过早死亡，以及 关系暴力的风险增加。然而，这一人口数量巨大 未被充分研究和误解。很少有研究集中在 这一年龄段对形成健全的风险和预防至关重要 战略。这项研究将提供所需的多层次、多变量数据 关于风险的主要决定因素，风险因素与 理论上的争论，以及社区和种族之间的一致性 和性别群体。从生态的角度看待风险因素和 交易视角下的风险发展，本研究可提供所需 澄清作为许多预防工作重点的结果， 具体说明显著的易感性和诱发风险因素，以及 行为序列，并阐明关系暴力如何与其他人相关 暴力和普遍的反社会行为。此外，它还可以提供一些 关于合作伙伴如何为 暴力关系的形成，这种态度和做法可能是怎样的 在青春期后期形成的，以及这种贡献的变化 性别和跨种族群体。366个家庭的样本，平均92% 一波又一波的保留，已经被跟踪了四次年度访谈 有了事先的资金。在最后一波，在这项研究的试点中，106名男孩 据报道，一段恋情持续了至少三个月，三分之一的人 那些报告在那段关系中使用暴力的人。使用滚雪球采样 方法我们将邀请年轻男子的浪漫伴侣参与 和其他女性朋友的合作伙伴，以获得平行数据 两年了。40名青年将被跟踪进行人种学研究。

DESCRIPTION: (Adapted From The Investigator s Abstract): This study focuses on the predictors, precipitants, and sequelae of relationship violence among inner-city late- adolescents. It builds on data from a four-year longitudinal study of the community, family, and peer, risk predictors of antisocial behavior among inner-city adolescent males. By adding two additional interviews with these men, their female partners, and additional females of similar age, ethnicity, and residence location we can trace the antecedents of violence in intimate relationships. Also, an ethnography of situations and conditions that are the catalysts for relationship violence is undertaken to inform the focus of the longitudinal quantitative research. This study focuses on the members of society most at-risk for serious antisocial and violent behavior, premature death due to violence, and with elevated risk for relationship violence. However, this population is vastly understudied and misunderstood. There is a dearth of studies focused on this age period that is critical for developing sound risk and prevention strategies. This study will provide needed multi-level, multi-variate data on the primary determinants of risk, the consistency of risk factors with theoretical contentions, and the consistency across communities, and ethnic and gender groups. Applying an ecological perspective on risk factors and a transactional perspective on risk development, this study can provide needed clarification of outcomes that are the focus of many preventive efforts, specify the salient predisposition and precipitating risk factors and behavioral sequences, and clarify how relationship violence relates to other violence and general antisocial behavior. In addition, it can provide some of the first detailed information on how partners contribute to the formation of violent relationships, how such attitudes and practices may be formed during late adolescence, and the variations of such contributions by gender and across ethnic groups. A sample of 366 families, with 92% average retention from wave to wave, have been followed for four annual interviews with prior funding. At the last wave, in a pilot for this study, 106 boys reported a romantic relation that lasted at least three months and 1/3 of those reported using violence in that relationship. Using snowball sampling methods we will solicit participation by the young men's romantic partners and additional female friends of the partners to obtain parallel data over two years. 40 youth will be followed in an ethnographic study.