PEER CULTURES AND ADOLESCENT AIDS RISK

描述（改编自摘要）：在寻找一种手段， 改变青少年性行为，倡导许多艾滋病预防 干预措施吸引了青少年相对较弱的 动机：与健康和身体伤害有关的动机。 社会动机 可能是性行为的更强的决定因素，然而， 经常被视为障碍，而不是变量， 直接操作以防止艾滋病毒感染。 前四年 在拟定研究中，主要研究者将检查 社会环境影响与性有关的认知和行为 非裔美国人和白色青年，年龄在11到15岁之间。 将侧重 关于迄今为止在这一领域研究不足的问题：面对面 学校环境中派系之间的相互作用以及 沟通和语言决定同伴行为。 主 该项目的具体目标是开发一个基于计算机的模型， 非裔美国人同伴影响与性别关系社会机制 白色青少年从早期到中期的变化 青春期 研究者将对一个人进行人种学研究， 24名男性和24名女性非裔美国人和白色青少年的队列， 从六年级到九年级的四年期间。 他 主要的研究方法将是民族志观察派系， 录音带记录了小集团的社会交往， 对小集团成员的一部分进行以经验为中心的访谈。 具体来说，研究人员将在四岁时研究青少年的同伴文化。 层次：人群、小集团、友谊小集团或二元体和 浪漫/性关系 他将：进行人种学观察 在一系列的场地，其中集团聚集和互动;记录和 使用以下方法分析与数据收集同时进行的现场记录： 扎根理论;采访四分之一的派系成员，了解他们的 集团成员的经验以及关于性别和性行为， 同时分析访谈记录和互动记录 用扎根理论的方法 在最初的四年里， 在每年观测之后的夏天，主要工作将是 致力于模型制作。 从初中到高中的过渡 学校将密切研究，以确定变量影响的变化，在同龄人 影响结构。 研究的目标是了解 青少年同伴影响的机制足以进行实验 行为改变车辆和测试实施的一个 基于社会背景方法的预干预， study.

DESCRIPTION (adapted from the Abstract): In the search for a means to modify adolescent sexual behavior, advocates of many HIV prevention interventions have appealed to what are for adolescents relatively weak motivations: those related to health and bodily harm. Social motivations are likely to be far stronger determinants of sexual behavior, yet these frequently have been viewed as obstacles rather than as variables that might be manipulated directly to prevent HIV infection. In the first four years of the proposed study, the Principal Investigator will examine the manner in which the social environment affects cognition and behavior related to sex of African American and White youth, aged 11 to 15 years. The focus will be on what has to date been understudied in this field: face-to-face interaction within cliques in a school environment and the role of communication and language in determining peer behavior. The primary specific aim of the project is to develop an empirically-based model of the social mechanism of peer influence related to sex of African American and White adolescents as it changes over the period from early to middle adolescence. The Investigator will conduct an ethnographic study of a cohort of 24 male and 24 female African American and White adolescents over a 4-year period as they move from the sixth through the ninth grade. His primary study methods will be ethnographic observation of cliques and audiotape recordings of clique social interaction supplemented by experience-focused interviews with a subset of clique members. Specifically, the Investigator will study adolescent peer culture at four levels: the crowd, the clique, the friendship clique or dyad and the romantic/sexual relationship. He will: conduct ethnographic observations in a range of venues where cliques congregate and interact; record and analyze field notes concurrent with data collection using methods of grounded theory; interview one in four clique members regarding their experience of clique membership as well as regarding gender and sexuality, analyzing also, the transcripts of interviews and of recorded interaction with grounded theory methods. Throughout the first four years and during the summers following each year of observation, primary effort will be devoted to model building. The transitions from junior high school to high school will be studied closely to determine variables affects change in peer influence structures. The goal of the study will be to understand the mechanism of adolescent peer influence sufficiently to be able to experiment with behavior change vehicles and test implementation of one pre-intervention based on social context methods in the fifth year of the study.