ADAPTATION IN FAMILIES WITH MENTALLY RETARDED CHILDREN

弱智儿童家庭的适应

• 批准号: 2194561
• 负责人: FRANK J FLOYD
• 金额: $ 6.56万
• 依托单位: UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 1993
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1993-09-01 至 1998-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/2194561
• 关键词: adolescence (12-20); behavior test; child behavior disorders; child psychology; child with disability; chronic disease /disorder; coping; dyadic interaction; emotional adjustment; human subject; longitudinal human study; marriage /marital status; mental retardation; middle childhood (6-11); parent offspring interaction; psychological adaptation; psychological stressor; questionnaires; sibling relations; social adjustment; social support network

The research will evaluate reciprocal influences between mentally retarded children and their families. It will include a 5-year follow-up (Wave 3) of a sample of 150 families of school-age children (6-18 years old) with mild and moderate mental retardation, and a matched sample of 50 comparison families with typically developing children of the same age. The study will focus on family interactions as proximal and potentially modifiable predictors of adjustment for all family members, and thus will suggest avenues for interventions to prevent deterioration in social and cognitive adjustment for mentally retarded children, and to avoid distress and disruption for the other family members. All family members are included in the research. It will test the hypothesis that characteristics of the child, marital quality, family stress and coping resources each influence the quality of supportive, aversive, and behavior-management interactions between the mentally retarded child and other family members. In turn, interactions should affect the child's future psychosocial adjustment and cognitive and social development, and the future well-being of the family members. This third assessment also will explicate cognitive factors for the parents which can either foster positive adaptation or lead to conflict, hostility, and aversive interactions with the child. Additionally, at Time 3 the families of mentally retarded children will be contrasted with two new comparison groups, families with children with a chronic illness or physical handicap (n=60), and families of behavior disordered children (n=60). These additional comparisons will control for the effects of stress associated with coping with a chronic handicap, physical disabilities, and child behavior problems on family adaptation and subsequent child functioning, and thus will identify unique processes by which mentally retarded children and their families influence each other.

该研究将评估精神智障之间的相互影响 儿童及其家人。它将包括5年的随访（第3波） 在150个学龄儿童（6-18岁）的样本中 轻度和中度的智力低下，匹配的样本50 比较家庭通常成年子女的家庭。 这项研究将重点放在家庭互动上，作为近端和潜在的 可修改所有家庭成员调整的预测指标，因此 建议采取干预措施以防止社会和 对智障儿童的认知调整，并避免困扰 并破坏其他家庭成员。所有家庭成员都是 包括在研究中。它将检验特征的假设 儿童，婚姻质量，家庭压力和应对资源 影响支持性，厌恶和行为管理的质量 智障儿童与其他家庭成员之间的互动。 反过来，互动应影响孩子的未来社会心理 调整，认知和社会发展以及未来的福祉 家庭成员。第三次评估还将阐明认知 父母可以促进正适应或 导致冲突，敌意和与孩子的厌恶互动。 此外，在时间3上，精神智障的孩子的家庭将是 与两个新的比较组形成鲜明对比的是有孩子的孩子 慢性病或身体上的障碍（n = 60）和行为家庭 失调的儿童（n = 60）。这些额外的比较将控制 应力与应对慢性障碍有关的影响， 身体残疾和家庭适应的儿童行为问题 并随后的儿童功能，因此将确定独特的过程 智障儿童及其家人的影响 其他。