EMOTION REGULATION FROM INFANCY TO TODDLERHOOD

从婴儿期到幼儿期的情绪调节

基本信息

批准号：
6536260
负责人：
Julia Braungart-Rieker
金额：
$ 7.19万
依托单位：
UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
财政年份：
2001
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
2001-05-11 至 2005-04-30
项目状态：
已结题

项目摘要

DESCRIPTION (Adapted from applicant's description): Research has recently documented that behaviors such as self-comforting (e.g., thumb sucking) and gaze aversion during frustrating situations lead to subsequent reductions in negative affect in infants as young as 4- and 5-months of age. What is less well known, however, are the factors associated with individual differences in emotion regulation. That is, there is a range of abilities in emotion regulation and what accounts for such variability is still relatively unknown. It is proposed that the development of emotion regulation is complex and involves multiple systems within the infant and his/her environment. Thus, factors such as the child's gender, temperament, cognitive, emerging language development, the developing internal working model of the attachment relationship with their mother and father, parent sensitivity, and familial conditions (e.g., marital conflict) may all play a part in the development of emotion regulation. Furthermore, it is proposed that variation in emotion regulation, even during infancy, will predict later social competence, (e.g., self-control), the ability to comply with adult requests, as well as self-assertive behaviors. The father is also included in this study because recent research is showing that the fathers' role may differ from the mothers during infancy; fathers may be particularly salient in children's development of regulation skills. The study will be longitudinal in which infants and parents will be observed in a laboratory setting when infants are 3, 5, 7, 12, 14, and 20 months of age. The first three visits will center on infants' affective and regulatory responses during the Still-Face Paradigm as well as mothers' and fathers' sensitivity in responding to their infants' emotionality. Attachment data will be collected at the 12 (infant-mother) and 14 month (infant-father) visits. Finally, measures of children's social competence during several laboratory paradigms as well as mothers' and fathers' control tactics will be assessed at the 20 month visit. Questionnaire data at appropriate ages also will be obtained from mothers and fathers to assess parents' perceptions of their child's temperament, language development, parental involvement, and marital conflict. In sum, four goals guide this study: (1) To examine the correlates and predictors of affect regulation from infancy to toddlerhood. (2) To examine the degree to which emotion regulatory patterns during early infancy are predictive of infant-parent attachment and to what extent such relations are mediated or moderated by parent sensitivity. (3) To examine the extent to which emotion regulatory patterns and attachment during infancy predict later styles of emotion regulation and social competence during toddlerhood. (4) With respect to the above-mentioned questions, to compare processes occurring for infant-mother dyads versus infant-father dyads.

描述（根据申请人的描述改编）：最近有记录了诸如自我舒适（例如，拇指吮吸）之类的行为和在令人沮丧的情况下凝视厌恶导致随后的减少婴儿年龄和5个月大的婴儿的负面影响。什么是然而，众所周知的是与情绪调节中个体差异相关的因素。也就是说，情绪调节有一系列能力以及什么说明对于这种变异，仍然相对未知。有人提出情绪调节的发展很复杂，涉及多个系统在婴儿及其环境中。因此，诸如孩子的因素性别，气质，认知，新兴语言发展，发展与母亲的依恋关系的内部工作模型父母，父母的敏感性和家庭状况（例如，婚姻冲突）愿所有人都参与情绪调节的发展。此外，它有人提出，即使在婴儿期，情绪调节的变化也将预测后来的社会能力（例如自我控制），能够遵守的能力与成人要求以及自我证实的行为。父亲也是这项研究包括最近的研究表明父亲的在婴儿期间的角色可能与母亲不同。父亲可能特别是在儿童发展调节技能方面的重要性。该研究将是纵向观察婴儿和父母的纵向在婴儿为3、5、7、12、14和20个月的实验室环境中年龄。前三次访问将以婴儿的情感和调节性为中心在静止范式和母亲和父亲对婴儿的敏感性情绪。附件数据将在12个（婴儿）和14个月（婴儿父亲）访问中收集。最后，衡量儿童社会能力的衡量几个实验室范式以及母亲和父亲的控制策略将是在20个月的访问中进行评估。适当年龄的问卷数据也将是从母亲和父亲那里获得的，以评估父母对他们的看法儿童的气质，语言发展，父母的参与和婚姻冲突。总而言之，四个目标指导这项研究：（1）检查相关性和从婴儿期到幼儿的影响调节的预测因素。（2）检查婴儿早期期间的情绪调节模式的程度是预测婴儿父母的依恋以及这种关系的程度由母体灵敏度介导或调节。（3）检查范围婴儿期间哪些情绪调节模式和依恋稍后预测情绪调节和社会能力的风格。（4）关于上述问题，以比较过程发生在婴儿母亲二元组与婴儿父亲二元组发生。