CHILDREN BEHAVIOR--EXPLAINING CONTINUITY AND CHANGE

儿童行为——解释连续性和变化

• 批准号: 2254727
• 负责人: Elizabeth G. Menaghan
• 金额: $ 11.74万
• 依托单位: OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 1994
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1994-09-30 至 1997-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/2254727
• 关键词: adolescence (12-20); child behavior; child behavior disorders; child psychology; developmental psychology; family structure /dynamics; gender difference; middle childhood (6-11); parent offspring interaction; parents; psychological stressor; racial /ethnic difference; socioenvironment

DESCRIPTION: (Adapted from Applicant's Abstract) The overall research objective is to describe and explain the development, maintenance, and decline of children's behavior problems during middle childhood, and then to examine their implications for adolescent behavior. The investigators focus on two major categories of problems--externalizing behavior that is troubling to others, especially aggressive and antisocial behavior, and internalizing behavior marked by withdrawal from interaction and depressed mood. There are two specific aims: 1) to describe and explain the trajectory of behavior problems during a four- year period spanning ages 6 to 11. To accomplish this, they will first develop models explaining the levels of children's behavior problems at the beginning of middle childhood (ages six and seven), then test analytic models predicting changes from that point to ages 10 to 11 four years later; and 2) to follow a subset of children forward into adolescence to evaluate how the developmental trajectory established during middle childhood is linked to normative and non-normative behaviors in adolescence. To accomplish these aims, the investigators will use the Child-Mother data sets of the National Longitudinal Surveys of Youth; they will draw on data from five waves of child assessment (1986, 1988, 1990, 1992, and 1994) for a large national sample of children born to a nationally representative sample of U.S. women to develop a sample of approximately 2,400 children who are followed through the middle childhood period. They will evaluate three sets of influences on the development and persistence of behavior problems during middle childhood: 1) parental characteristics; 2) chronic social stressors impinging on the family; and 3) the quality of the home environment that parents provide. Analyses consider the causal linkages among these explanatory variables, tracing both direct and indirect effects.Second, they explicitly control for (and evaluate the direct and indirect effects of) prior parental resources that predispose parents to differing stress levels over time. Finally, they evaluate theoretically expectable interactions among these explanatory sets, as well as by race-ethnicity and child gender, in which the effects of any single circumstance or resource are contingent on levels of other variables. These results will contribute to social- scientific theories regarding the life-course development of social competence and mental health, and suggest strategies for interventions with children who are otherwise likely to reach adulthood without the requisite emotional and social competencies.

描述：（改编自申请人的摘要）总体研究 目的是描述和解释发展，维护和 儿童中期儿童行为问题的下降，以及 然后检查它们对青少年行为的影响。 这 调查人员专注于两个主要问题 - 外部化 对他人的行为，特别是侵略性和 反社会行为和以戒断为标志的内部化行为 从互动和情绪低落。 有两个具体的目标： 1）描述和解释一个过程中行为问题的轨迹 跨越6至11岁的四年期。为了实现这一目标，他们将 首先开发了解释儿童行为水平的模型 童年初（六岁和七岁）的问题，然后 测试分析模型预测从该点到10岁到10岁的变化 11四年后； 2）跟随一部分儿童前进到 青春期评估发展轨迹的建立方式 童年期间与规范和非规范有关 青春期的行为。 为了实现这些目标，调查人员将使用儿童 全国青年纵向调查的数据集；他们会画画 关于来自五波儿童评估浪潮的数据（1986，1988，1990，1992，以及 1994年）对于一个全国性的全国儿童样本 美国妇女的代表性样本，以开发大约样本 在童年中期，有2,400名儿童。 他们将评估三组对发展的影响以及 童年中期行为问题的持续存在：1）父母 特征; 2）危及家庭的慢性社会压力； 3）父母提供的家庭环境的质量。 分析考虑这些解释变量之间的因果联系， 追踪直接和间接效应。 对于（并评估）先前父母的直接和间接影响 随着时间的推移，使父母倾向于不同压力水平的资源。 最后，他们评估了理论上可以期望的互动 解释性集以及种族种族和性别性别 任何单一情况或资源的影响是偶然的 在其他变量的水平上。 这些结果将有助于社会 关于社会生命发展发展的科学理论 能力和心理健康，并提出干预策略 与否则可能没有成年的孩子 必要的情感和社会能力。