Children's Anxiety Regulation and Maternal Communication

儿童焦虑调节与母亲沟通

• 批准号: 6360851
• 负责人: MARIAN D SIGMAN
• 金额: $ 7.65万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2001
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2001-09-24 至 2003-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/6360851
• 关键词: adolescence (12-20); anxiety; behavior therapy; behavioral /social science research tag; child behavior; clinical research; communication; communication behavior; family therapy; fear; human subject; middle childhood (6-11); mood disorders; mother child interaction; outcomes research; parent offspring interaction; psychophysiology; statistics /biometry

DESCRIPTION (Applicant's Abstract): Does parental communication style affect emotion regulation among children who initially demonstrate high levels of fear and anxiety? Although recent correlational research has demonstrated a linkage between parental communication behaviors, such as excessive catastrophizing, and children's manifestations of fear and anxiety, it is not clear if parental communication behaviors directly influence children's ability to regulate these emotions. Alternatively, these parental communication behaviors may be elicited by children who express fears and anxieties more frequently than non-anxious children do. Experimental research designs would offer a more definitive test of these competing explanations of the extant correlational findings. Intervention studies, in particular, can test whether experimentally manipulating current family interaction patterns affects children's ability to regulate emotion. The proposed research will provide a preliminary experimental test of the relationship between parental communication behavior and children's regulation of fear and anxiety. Some 40 clinically anxious youth, aged 7-13, will be randomly assigned to a family intervention program for childhood anxiety problems, which includes extensive parent communication training, or-a child intervention program without parent training. By comparing these two interventions we will test if it is possible to improve parental communication behaviors-such as catastrophizing-through intensive parent training, above and beyond the effects of involving children in a child intervention program. We will then test the impact of this change in parental communication behaviors on children's ability to regulate fear and anxiety. Observational measures of parental communication behavior, children's emotion regulation strategies, and children's manifestations of fear and anxiety, as well as a measure of physiological arousal, will serve as the primary outcome measures.

描述（申请人的摘要）：父母交流风格会影响 最初表现出高水平恐惧的儿童中的情绪调节 和焦虑？尽管最近的相关研究表明了联系 在父母的沟通行为之间，例如过度的灾难性， 以及儿童对恐惧和焦虑的表现，尚不清楚父母是否存在 沟通行为直接影响儿童调节这些行为的能力 情绪。或者，这些父母的交流行为可能会引起 比非焦虑的孩子更频繁地表达恐惧和焦虑的孩子 孩子们做。实验研究设计将提供更确定的测试 在现有相关发现的这些相互竞争的解释中。 尤其是干预研究，可以测试是否在实验中测试 操纵当前家庭互动模式会影响儿童的能力 调节情绪。拟议的研究将提供初步的实验 测试父母交流行为与儿童的关系 调节恐惧和焦虑。大约40名临床焦虑的青年，现年7-13岁， 将随机分配到童年的家庭干预计划 焦虑问题，其中包括广泛的家长沟通培训，or-a 没有父母培训的儿童干预计划。通过比较这两个 干预措施我们将测试是否可以改善父母的交流 上面的行为等行为，例如灾难性的直通父母培训和 除了让儿童参加儿童干预计划的影响之外。我们 然后将测试这种变化在父母交流行为对 孩子们调节恐惧和焦虑的能力。观察措施 父母的沟通行为，儿童的情绪调节策略和 儿童的恐惧和焦虑表现，以及 生理唤醒将作为主要结果指标。