Department of Applied Psychology, New York University, New York, New York.
Department of Criminal Justice, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan.
J Community Psychol. 2021 Apr;49(3):822-837. doi: 10.1002/jcop.22369. Epub 2020 Aug 16.
Social media represents a relatively novel environment for prevention efforts targeting youth gun and gang violence, and associated trauma. The aim of this study is, therefore, to present findings from a novel intervention designed to complement existing, community-based violence prevention efforts. In doing so, we focus on the role of adult empathy in the relationships between youth and the adult credible messengers (CMs) who deliver the program. Guided by the purpose of complementarity, our mixed methods data analyses combine insights gained from CM's quantitative reports of 145 instances of risky online behavior with qualitative analyses of three focus groups addressing their experiences. Results underscore the complexities of social media as a context with the potential to simultaneously contribute to, and serve to prevent, trauma. Results also indicate that empathic concern and perspective taking were important in informing the type of intervention tactics employed by CMs. Relatedly, CM's perspective taking mattered not only in their responses to risky and/or trauma-related content, but also in their identification of some relevant social media posts.
社交媒体代表了一个相对新颖的环境，可用于针对青年枪支和帮派暴力及相关创伤的预防工作。因此，本研究旨在展示一项新颖干预措施的研究结果，该措施旨在补充现有的基于社区的暴力预防工作。在这样做的过程中，我们关注成年人同理心在青年与传递该项目的成人可信信息源（CM）之间的关系中的作用。在互补性的目的指导下，我们的混合方法数据分析结合了 CM 对 145 个在线风险行为实例的定量报告中获得的见解，以及对三个焦点小组的经验进行的定性分析。研究结果强调了社交媒体作为一个潜在的具有促进和预防创伤的复杂环境。结果还表明，同理心和换位思考对于 CM 所采用的干预策略类型非常重要。相关地，CM 的换位思考不仅在他们对风险和/或创伤相关内容的反应中很重要，而且在他们识别一些相关的社交媒体帖子方面也很重要。
