142. Relationships Between Adolescent Girls' Social-Emotional Intelligence and Their Involvement in Relational Aggression and Physical Fighting

Polan, Julie; Pettingell, Sandra L.; Bearinger, Linda H.; McMorris, Barbara J.

doi:10.1016/j.jadohealth.2011.10.216

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“…Girls routinely observed others modeling violence in response to stressful situations; thus, it was normative for girls to incorporate similar responses into their repertoires. Further, the intervention did not appear to affect fight avoidance skills, stress management skills, school connectedness or school suspension, known correlates of physical violence in this sample and other high-risk groups (Borowsky et al 2008; Polan et al 2012). Relatively few intervention activities addressed cognitions, skills and behaviors specific to physical violence.…”

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“…Relatively few intervention activities addressed cognitions, skills and behaviors specific to physical violence. The intervention could be more effective in preventing physical violence among girls from high-risk social contexts by incorporating activities that explicitly convey social expectations for non-violence (Borowsky et al 2008), expand girls’ stress tolerance and impulse control skills (Polan et al 2012), build their repertoire of non-violent responses to potentially violent situations (Wilson and Lipsey 2007) and enhance their pro-social involvement with teachers and school (Resnick et al 2004). …”

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Prime Time: 18-Month Violence Outcomes of a Clinic-Linked Intervention

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Prime Time, a youth development intervention, aims to reduce multiple risk behaviors among adolescent girls seeking clinic services who are at high risk for pregnancy. The purpose of the current study was to examine whether Prime Time involvement produced changes in relational aggression, physical violence and related psychosocial and behavioral outcomes. Qualitative case exemplars illustrated social contexts of intervention participants with differing longitudinal patterns of relational aggression and physical violence. Data were from a randomized efficacy trial with 13–17 year old girls (n=253) meeting specified risk criteria. Intervention participants were involved in Prime Time and usual clinic services for 18 months, control participants received usual clinic services. Participants in the current study completed self-report surveys at baseline and 18 months following enrollment. Outcomes analyses revealed significantly lower levels of relational aggression perpetration in the intervention group versus controls. In contrast, Prime Time involvement did not result in significant reductions in physical violence. Exploratory dose-response analyses indicated that reductions in relational aggression may have been most pronounced among girls actively involved in Prime Time case management and peer leadership activities. Qualitative findings suggested that the intervention’s emphasis on modeling and building supportive relationships contributed to reductions in relational aggression. This study contributes to a very limited evidence base regarding effective approaches to preventing violence among high-risk adolescent girls. Findings suggest that offering youth development interventions through clinic settings hold promise in reducing violence risk among vulnerable youth.

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