社区中的青少年:课外活动和性骚扰
Andrea S Mora1,2, Kristen M LoDuca3, Rosario Ceballo4
1Department of Psychology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA. asmora@umich.edu.
Journal of youth and adolescence
|June 24, 2023
概括
非结构化的社区活动可能会增加青少年的性骚扰风险,导致PTSD症状. 建议进行结构化,监督的活动,以改善青少年的幸福感.
科学领域:
- 青少年心理学 青少年心理学
- 公共卫生 公共卫生
- 社会学 社会学 社会学
背景情况:
- 在青少年中,性骚扰和参与课外活动是很常见的.
- 有限的研究探索了这些经验的交集,特别是在低收入的少数民族青年中.
- 了解这些联系对于青少年心理健康干预至关重要.
研究的目的:
- 调查不同类型的课外活动与青少年PTSD/抑郁症状之间的关联.
- 检查邻居性骚扰在这些关系中的调解作用.
- 识别可能带来风险或提供保护的特定活动类型.
主要方法:
- 在537名青少年 (平均年龄15.6岁,54%为女性,77.5%为拉丁裔) 的长度研究中.
- 用于评估活动类型,性骚扰和心理健康症状之间的关系的路径分析.
- 研究了四种活动类型:以学校为基础,以社区为基础的结构化,以社区为基础的非结构化和以家庭为基础.
主要成果:
- 在非结构化的社区活动和PTSD症状之间发现了显著的间接效应,这种症状是由性骚扰介导的.
- 对于以学校为基础,以社区为基础或以家庭为基础的结构化活动,没有观察到显著的间接影响.
- 研究结果突出了活动结构对青少年风险暴露的影响的差异.
结论:
- 基于社区的非结构化的课外活动可能会增加青少年遭受邻居性骚扰的风险.
- 随着时间的推移,这种增加的风险与更高的PTSD症状有关.
- 促进结构化,监督的课外活动对于青少年的安全和心理健康至关重要.
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