Psychological & Familial Influences on Health Behavior

描述(由申请者提供)：目前的提案要求为家庭和社区健康增加两波数据收集提供资金 研究，对家庭和社区在其中所起作用的纵向研究 对非裔美国青少年危险行为的抑制和促进 (例如，吸毒和危险的性行为)。897个家庭中的每一个 研究有一个目标儿童，他在第一波中10岁，是主要的照顾者，并且 三分之一的人有一个在Wave学校年龄在12岁到14岁之间的哥哥 1.本研究的拟议延期将在家属之后进行，直到 目标儿童为17岁，这一发育期增幅最大 危险行为和兄弟姐妹到19岁，在这段时间里有问题 物质使用的习惯很可能已经出现。我们的总体方法是 这项研究是社会心理学的，以我们的青少年模型为基础 健康风险。该模型的具体关注点是认知因素， 协调父母教养、邻里环境和孩子的关系 一方面是性格，以及孩子决定躲避或从事风险 另一方面，行为也是如此。

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.