PREDICTORS OF MENTAL HEALTH IN RURAL PARENTS

农村父母心理健康的预测因素

• 批准号: 6204860
• 负责人: Carolyn E Cutrona
• 金额: $ 64.38万
• 依托单位: IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 1999
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1999-09-30 至 2001-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/6204860
• 关键词: African American; adult human (21+); behavioral /social science research tag; caucasian American; community; disease /disorder proneness /risk; family structure /dynamics; human population study; human subject; interpersonal relations; interview; mental health; parents; personality; racial /ethnic difference; religion; rural area; socioeconomics; stress

A large-scale longitudinal study will be conducted of vulnerability and resilience among economically stressed parents who are striving to raise their children in rural settings. The mental health of parents is critically important, because distressed parents and those suffering from psychiatric disorders show significant impairment in parenting functions, which in turn, renders their children vulnerable to disorder. The proposed study builds upon and extends research previously conducted at the ISU Center for Family Research in Rural Mental Health. The sample in the proposed investigation will be racially and geographically diverse and will be drawn from communities that show a high level of economic disadvantage. Our primary outcome variable, parent mental health, will be assessed at both the level of symptoms and clinically significant diagnoses. A four-wave longitudinal design will be employed that allows us to test mediation, moderation, and reciprocal relations among variables over time. Analyses will be conducted to test for differences among ethnic, socioeconomic, and regional subgroups in the processes and circumstances that lead to good mental health among parents. An innovative component of the study is its inclusion of community-level, family-level, and individual-level variables. We will investigate the effects of community characteristics (e.g., percent below the poverty line, crime rates) on interpersonal relationships, personal outlook, chronic and acute stressors, and symptoms and syndromes of psychiatric disorder. We will also investigate the effects of economic hardship and related stressors on interpersonal relationships, personal outlook, and mental health. The contribution of personality and problem-solving skill to the success with which parents deal with these stressors will be examined closely, as will relationships with intimate partner and members of the social network. Sophisticated data analytic techniques for the analysis of multi-level data will be used to analyze the data, including hierarchical linear modeling and structural equation modeling with latent variables.

大规模纵向研究将进行脆弱性和 努力提高的经济压力的父母之间的韧性 他们的孩子在农村环境中。父母的心理健康是 至关重要，因为苦恼的父母和苦难 从精神疾病中显示出育儿的重大障碍 功能又使他们的孩子容易受到混乱的影响。 拟议的研究基于并扩展了先前进行的研究 在ISU农村心理健康家庭研究中心。样本 在拟议的调查中将在种族和地理上进行 多元化，将从社区中汲取高水平的社区 经济劣势。我们的主要结果变量，父母心理 健康，将在症状和临床上评估 重大诊断。将采用四波纵向设计 这使我们能够测试调解，节制和相互关系 随着时间的流逝，变量之间。将进行分析以测试 种族，社会经济和区域亚组之间的差异 过程和环境导致良好的心理健康 父母。该研究的创新组成部分是其包含 社区级别，家庭层面和个人级别变量。我们将 调查社区特征的影响（例如百分比 在贫困线以下，犯罪率）关于人际关系， 个人前景，慢性和急性压力源以及症状以及 精神疾病综合征。我们还将调查效果 经济困难和相关的人际关系 人际关系，个人前景和心理健康。的贡献 个性和解决问题的技巧，取得了父母的成功 将与这些压力源打交道，将进行仔细检查 与亲密伴侣和社交网络成员的关系。 用于分析多层次的复杂数据分析技术 数据将用于分析数据，包括分层线性 具有潜在变量的建模和结构方程建模。