Romantic Relationships Models and Adolescent Health

描述（研究者摘要）：青少年，多于其他年龄组， 因其行为而患病。许多研究都在寻找 来确定为什么青少年会冒险，以及他们是如何被影响去做 否则大多数风险理论本质上是心理学的， 将个人作为分析单位并假设个人特征 作为行为的相关因素。这一研究忽略了行为的一个主要决定因素， 方法就是文化。由思想、理解、信仰和 主观知识、文化是青少年行为的决定因素， 它并不存在于个体之中，而是由青少年社会群体所共享。 浪漫关系的文化-青少年主观上相信什么 这些关系还没有被广泛研究。因此，在这方面， 针对青少年生殖健康的干预措施往往 根据青少年的概念， 当他们思考和谈论浪漫关系时， 日常生活 在这项研究中，我们计划确定浪漫关系的文化模式， 根据非裔美国人/墨西哥裔美国人男性样本的描述， 少女。为了确定文化模式，我们将引出文化 三种访谈情境下的认知（个人、夫妻和同伴群体） 使用白话术语面试（VTI）程序。然后，我们将指定 个体访谈数据中文化模型的结构和内容 使用方言概念分析（VCA），其中数据被索引，子集被 提取，并识别和组织分析类别。该方法 将确定任何人口统计学的受访者所表达的突出模型 类别或人口统计类别的组合。下半年 研究，我们将寻求回答以下比较问题：1）什么 非洲裔美国人所表达的文化模式存在差异， 墨西哥裔美国青少年，2）在文化模式上有什么不同 表达了我的男性和女性青少年，和3）有什么区别， 接受采访的青少年对文化模式的表达和资格 不同的社会背景（个人，夫妇和同龄人群体）？完成 因此，一个反映已确定的文化模式的统一编码系统将 应用于所有三个采访背景下收集的数据和统计 将利用程序来回答这三个比较研究问题。 这项研究的结果将与健康促进工作有关 与减少性病和意外怀孕有关。

DESCRIPTION (investigator's abstract): Adolescents, more than other age group, suffer morbidity as a consequence of their behavior. Much research has sought to determine why adolescents take risks, and how they might be influenced to do otherwise. Most theories of risk are psychological in nature, taking the individual as a unit of analysis and hypothesizing individual characteristics as correlates of behavior. One major determinant of behavior overlooked by this approach is that of culture. Consisting of ideas, understanding, beliefs, and subjective knowledge, culture is a determinant of adolescent behavior which does not reside in the individual but is shared by adolescent social groups. The culture of romantic relationships-what adolescents subjectively believe about these relationships-has not been widely studied. As a consequence, interventions targeting adolescents reproductive health often do not contextualize health promotion messages in terms of concepts that adolescents view as important when they think and talk about romantic relationships in their daily lives. In this study, we plan to identify cultural models of romantic relationships based on accounts given by a sample of African American/ Mexican American male/ female adolescents. To identify cultural models, we will elicit cultural cognition in three interview contexts (individual, couple, and peer group) using a Vernacular Term Interview (VTI) procedure. We will then specify the structure and content of cultural models in data from the individual interview using Vernacular Concept Analysis (VCA), in which data is indexed, a subset is extracted, and analytic categories are identified and organized. This method will identify prominent models expressed by respondents of any demographic category or combination of demographic categories. In the second half of the study, we will seek to answer the following comparative questions: 1) what differences are there in cultural models expressed by African Americans and Mexican American adolescents, 2) what differences are there in cultural models expressed my male and female adolescents, and 3) what differences are there in expression and qualification of cultural models by adolescents interviewed in different social contexts (individual, couple, and peer group)? To accomplish this, a uniform coding system reflecting identified cultural models will be applied to data collected in all three interview contexts and statistical procedures will be utilized to answer the three comparative research questions. Findings of this research will have relevance to health promotion efforts related to reducing STD's and unwanted pregnancy.