Vulnerability and Resiliency in African American Parents

非裔美国父母的脆弱性和弹性

• 批准号: 6528893
• 负责人: Carolyn E Cutrona
• 金额: $ 58.26万
• 依托单位: IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2001
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2001-08-20 至 2006-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/6528893
• 关键词: African American; behavioral /social science research tag; clinical research; community; developmental psychology; disease /disorder proneness /risk; human subject; interpersonal relations; interview; longitudinal human study; marriage /marital status; mental health epidemiology; model design /development; parent offspring interaction; parents; personality; prejudice; psychological adaptation; psychological models; psychological stressor; social adjustment; social support network; socioeconomics; statistics /biometry

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The proposed study will contribute to our understanding of mental health among African American adults by considering community-level, family-level and individual-level risk and resilience factors during a critical developmental period in the lives of African American parents and their children. Life span research has largely neglected African American adults and there is a pressing need to understand the unique experiences and determinants of mental health among African Americans, as highlighted by the recent Report on Mental Health issued by the Surgeon General. The mental health trajectories of African American parents in different kinds of communities and families will be explored. The data for the proposed project will be collected from an existing sample of 897 African American families, all of whom had a 10-year-old child at the time of initial recruitment. We recruited families from a range of settings, many family structures, and income levels. We seek funding for two waves of data collection, to be spaced at two-year intervals. With existing data, this will produce a total of four assessments, spanning ages 10 to 16 among the target children. We seek to understand the influence of neighborhood characteristics (e.g., economic disadvantage, social disorder, cohesion) on level of distress and rates of diagnosable disorder and the mechanisms through which neighborhoods affect mental health. Assessments of neighborhood characteristics include both U.S. Census data and the aggregated ratings of neighborhood residents. We will emphasize protective factors that promote successful coping and the avoidance of distress and disorder. Stressors such as race-related negative events and the methods used to cope with them will be highlighted. We will investigate the protective influence of close relationships across different family structures and co-caregiving arrangements. Multi-level analyses, growth curve modeling, and structural equation modeling with latent variables will be used to analyze this very rich longitudinal data set. Companion projects submitted as part of this Interactive Group Research Project will explore community, family, and individual predictors of child resiliency and adjustment, including the development of competence and prosocial behavior (Risk and Resilience among African American Youth; Ronald L. Simons, P1) and avoidance of health risk behaviors (Social Psychological and Familial Influences on the Health Behavior of African American Children, Frederick X.Gibbons, PI).

描述（由申请人提供）：拟议的研究将为我们的 通过考虑 社区级别，家庭和个人级别的风险和弹性因素 在非裔美国人父母生活的关键发展时期 和他们的孩子。寿命研究在很大程度上被忽略了非裔美国人 成年人，迫切需要了解独特的经历和 非裔美国人心理健康的决定因素，如 外科医生发行的有关心理健康的最新报告。心理健康 非洲裔美国父母在各种社区中的轨迹 将探索家庭。将收集拟议项目的数据 从现有的897个非洲裔美国家庭的样本中，所有这些家庭都有 初次招募时10岁的孩子。我们招募了家庭 从一系列环境，许多家庭结构和收入水平。我们寻找 两次收集数据浪潮的资金，以两年的间隔间隔。 有了现有数据，这将产生四项评估，跨越 目标儿童中的10至16岁。我们试图了解 邻里特征（例如经济劣势，社会障碍， 凝聚力）关于痛苦水平和可诊断障碍的率和 社区影响心理健康的机制。评估 邻里特征包括美国人口普查数据和汇总 邻里居民的评分。我们将强调保护因素 促进成功应对并避免遇险和混乱。压力源 例如与种族相关的负面事件以及用于应对它们的方法 将被突出显示。我们将调查关闭的保护影响 跨不同家庭结构和共同护理的关系 安排。多层分析，增长曲线建模和结构 具有潜在变量的方程式建模将用于分析这一非常丰富的 纵向数据集。作为此交互式的一部分提交的伴侣项目 小组研究项目将探索社区，家庭和个人 儿童弹性和调整的预测因素，包括发展 能力和亲社会行为（非裔美国人的风险和韧性 青年;罗纳德·西蒙斯（Ronald L. Simons），P1）和避免健康风险行为（社会 心理和家庭对非洲健康行为的影响 美国儿童，弗雷德里克X.Gibbons，pi）。