Doctoral Dissertation Research: The behavioral ecology of children's signals of need

博士论文研究：儿童需求信号的行为生态学

• 批准号: 2314670
• 负责人: Edward Hagen
• 金额: $ 3.83万
• 依托单位: Washington State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-07-01 至 2025-06-30
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2314670&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; behavioral; ecology

Children require essential benefits from parents and other caregivers, such as food, care, and protection, which they often attempt to elicit with cries and other signals of need. Although infant cries have been studied in several populations, the full range of potential child signals of need, which likely extend beyond cries, has never been investigated in children of all ages, nor is it known how often parents respond favorably or unfavorably to these signals. This project helps fill this gap by collecting observational, self-report, and experimental data on child signals of need and parental responses to them. It also investigates if children’s self-endangering behaviors, such as running away, are signals of need. In addition to training a graduate student in mixed methods data collection and analyses, the research provides information that can enhance child well-being. The researcher intends to publish the results in peer-reviewed journals and share the data and findings with child welfare organizations. This project will be conducted in an island community among two populations that differ in culture and socioeconomic status, both of which are experiencing rapid change due to increased tourism and immigration. Daily surveys are used to examine how often children signal need, how they do this, how parents respond to such signaling, and how children respond to parental responses. Researchers are also replicating an experimental vignette study on adolescent and young adult self-endangering behaviors that tests the hypothesis that these are credible signals of need. By providing information from two populations on 1) the frequency and costliness of signals of need across development and 2) the extent to which those signals receive positive or negative responses from caregivers, this project provides insight into why children differ in their signaling behavior and why parents might respond positively or negatively to indications of child need.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

儿童需要父母和其他护理人员的基本益处，例如食物，护理和保护，他们经常试图引起哭泣和其他需要的信号。尽管已经在几个人群中研究了婴儿的哭声，但是在所有年龄段的儿童中，可能从未对哭声延伸的各种潜在的儿童信号，也不知道父母对这些信号的反应频率很高。该项目通过收集有关需求和父母对儿童的信号的观察性，自我报告以及实验数据来帮助填补这一空白。它还调查了儿童的自我范围行为（例如逃跑）是否是需要的信号。除了培训研究生混合方法数据收集和分析外，该研究还提供了可以增强儿童健康的信息。研究人员打算在同行评审期刊上发布结果，并与儿童福利组织共享数据和发现。该项目将在一个岛屿社区中进行，在两个文化和社会经济地位不同的人群中，由于旅游业和移民的增加，这两者都经历了快速变化。每日调查用于检查孩子信号需要的频率，如何做到这一点，父母如何应对这种信号以及孩子如何应对父母的反应。研究人员还在复制一项有关青少年和年轻成人自我倾向行为的实验小插图研究，该研究检验了这些假设是这些假设是可靠的需求信号。通过从两个人群中提供信息1）在开发过程中需要信号的频率和昂贵性，2）这些信号在照顾者中得到正面或负面反应的程度，该项目可以深入了解为什么孩子在信号传导行为上有所不同，而父母可能会积极或负面反应，以表明这些奖项通过nsf的稳定范围和诚实的依据。 标准。