Psychological & Familial Influences on Health Behavior

描述（由申请人提供）：目前的提案要求资助 为家庭和社区健康收集另外两波数据 一项关于家庭和社区在促进发展方面所起作用的纵向研究， 非裔美国青少年危险行为的抑制和促进 (e.g.物质使用和危险性行为）。897个家庭， 研究对象是第1波时年龄为10岁的目标儿童和主要照顾者， 三分之一的人有一个年龄在12到14岁之间的哥哥姐姐在Wave 1.这项研究的拟议扩展将跟踪这些家庭， 目标儿童是17岁，发育期的增幅最大 风险行为，和兄弟姐妹到19岁，在此期间，有问题的 吸毒的习惯可能已经出现。我们的一般做法是， 这项研究是社会心理学的，是基于我们的青少年模型， 健康风险。该模型的具体重点是认知因素， 调解养育、邻里环境和孩子的 一方面是性格，另一方面是孩子避免或参与风险的决定 行为，另一方面。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The current proposal requests funding for two additional waves of data collection for the Family and Community Health Study, a longitudinal study of the role that families and communities play in the inhibition and promotion of African American adolescents' risk behavior (e.g. substance use and risky sexual behavior). Each of the 897 families in the study has a target child who was age 10 at Wave 1 and a primary caregiver, and one-third have an older sibling who was between the ages of 12 and 14 at Wave 1. The proposed extension of this study will follow the families until the target children are 17, the developmental period of the greatest increase in risk behavior, and the siblings to age 19, a period during which problematic habits of substance use are likely to have emerged. Our general approach in this research is social-psychological and is based on our model of adolescent health risk. The specific focus of the model is on the cognitive factors that mediate the links between parenting, neighborhood context, and the child's disposition on the one hand, and child's decisions to avoid or engage in risk behavior on the other hand.