SOCIAL AND PHYSIOLOGICAL FACTORS FOR VIOLENCE

我们对暴力行为认识上的一个重大差距涉及到 哪些社会和生理风险因素与易感性有关 暴力。具体地说，社会和生理之间的相互作用 这些因素可能比任何一个单独因素更好地解释暴力行为。 这项研究旨在尝试社会和社会的真正融合 生理学方法，以帮助开发新的知识库 实施暴力。暴力的三种生理学理论， 即觉醒理论、应激反应理论和额叶 功能障碍理论将被用来帮助指导这项研究。其中一些 需要解决的主要问题涉及社会和生理风险 变量相互作用，这些变量如何解释暴力的维持 随时间推移的行为，以及是否具有社会风险因素的受试者 被保护不会实施暴力，因为拥有 生理保护因素。这些问题将通过一个 对匹兹堡青年研究中508名男孩的重新评估 从10岁到14岁的一系列广泛的纵向评估 家庭，学校，态度，同伴，邻居，犯罪， 精神病、冲动、自我报告和公务犯罪 措施。新的社交和行为数据将在18岁时收集 以及心理生理学、荷尔蒙和神经心理学 评估，以帮助解决上述问题。额叶功能障碍 理论将被用来提供一个整体的理论框架。它是 我觉得匹兹堡青年研究提供了一个潜在的独特 有机会开展一个多学科的项目，研究 暴力发展的社会和生理风险因素 犯罪行为。

A major gap in our knowledge of violence perpetration concerns the way in which social and physiological risk factors relate in predisposing to violence. Specifically, the interaction between social and physiological factors may better explain violence perpetration than either factor alone. This study aims to attempt a genuine integration of social and physiological approaches in order to help develop a new knowledge base on the perpetration of violence. Three physiological theories of violence, namely, arousal theory, stress reactivity theory, and frontal lobe dysfunction theory, will be used to help guide this research. Some of the main questions to be addressed concern how social and physiological risk variables interact, how these variables can explain maintenance of violent behavior over time, and whether subjects who possess social risk factors are protected from perpetrating violence by virtue of possessing physiological protective factors. These questions will be addressed by a reassessment of 508 boys in the Pittsburgh Youth Study who have already been longitudinally assessed from ages 10 to 14 on an extensive set of family, school, attitude, peer, neighborhood, delinquency, psychopathology, impulsivity, self-report and official delinquency measures. New social and behavioral data will be collected at age 18 together with psychophysiological, hormonal, and neuropsychological assessments to help address the above questions. Frontal dysfunction theory will be used to provide an overall theoretical framework. It is felt that the Pittsburgh Youth Study offers a potentially unique opportunity to conduct a multidisciplinary project on the confluence of social and physiological risk factors for the development of violence perpetration.