Youths' Emotion Regulation: Mediators and Moderators

描述（由申请人提供）：拟议的研究，“韩国移民家庭中的青年情绪调节”，是响应NIMH计划公告（PAR-04-010）提交的快速过渡行为科学跟踪奖（B-START）申请的第二次修订。要求提供一年的资金，以进行一项试点研究，调查文化对韩国移民家庭的家庭冲突和青少年愤怒调节以及随后的外在和内在症状的影响。青少年抑郁症和品行障碍是重要的公共卫生问题，很少有研究已经进行了与这些心理健康问题的不同种族的人口之间的可塑性的家庭过程中的文化差异。这项研究的结果将代表围绕这些问题开展研究计划的第一步，这些问题对解决青少年精神病理学的更有文化能力的预防和干预工作具有重大的临床意义。本研究有两个目的：1）以160名韩裔美国青少年及其主要照顾者为样本，开发和测试研究测量的心理测量学充分性; 2）在一个概念模型中检验假设的调节和中介关系，该模型确定了基于文化的自我保护，家庭冲突，和愤怒调节的关键变量与发展的内化和外化症状之间的韩裔美国青少年。在这个概念模型中，青少年的愤怒调节被假设为调解家庭冲突对外部症状的影响。从拟议的试点研究的结果将提供数据的心理测量特性的研究的措施，适用于韩裔美国青年和他们的父母，以及初步的经验数据，这个概念模型，以便以后的拨款建议可以提交调查这些关系纵向在韩国和其他移民人口。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The proposed study, "Youths' Emotion Regulation in Korean Immigrant Families," is a second revision of an application submitted in response to the NIMH Program Announcement (PAR-04-010) for the Behavioral Science Track Award for Rapid Transition (B-START). One year of funding is requested to conduct a pilot study investigating the influence of culture on family conflict and adolescents' anger regulation and subsequent externalizing and internalizing symptoms in Korean immigrant families. Adolescent depression and conduct disorders are significant public health concerns, and very little research has been conducted on cultural differences in malleable family processes associated with these mental health problems among ethnically diverse populations. Findings from this study will represent an initial step in launching a program of research around these issues which have major clinical implications for more culturally competent prevention and intervention efforts in addressing adolescent psychopathology. The proposed study is guided by two specific aims: 1) to develop and test the psychometric adequacy of study measures with a sample of N = 160 Korean American adolescents and their primary caregivers; 2) to test hypothesized moderating and mediating relationships in a conceptual model which identifies culturally-based self-construals, family conflict, and anger regulation as key variables associated with the development of internalizing and externalizing symptoms among Korean American adolescents. Within this conceptual model, youths' anger regulation is hypothesized to mediate the influence of family conflict on externalizing symptoms. Results from the proposed pilot study will provide data on the psychometric properties of the study's measures as applied to Korean American youths and their parents as well as preliminary empirical data for this conceptual model so that a later grant proposal can be submitted to investigate these relations longitudinally in Korean and other immigrant populations.