Friendship and psychosocial adjustment in adolescence

青春期的友谊和心理社会调整

• 批准号: 6861806
• 负责人: KENNETH H RUBIN
• 金额: $ 53.97万
• 依托单位: UNIV OF MARYLAND, COLLEGE PARK
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 1999
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1999-04-01 至 2009-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/6861806
• 关键词: adolescence (12-20); behavior prediction; behavioral /social science research tag; clinical research; friendships; human subject; interview; isolation /deprivation; locus of control; longitudinal human study; parent offspring interaction; psychological adaptation; questionnaires; self concept; social adjustment; videotape /videodisc

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The proposed investigation constitutes an extension of a NIMH-funded longitudinal project (NIH # MH58116), in which the friendships and parent-child relationships of socially withdrawn, aggressive, and control children were examined before and after they made the transition to middle school. The primary purpose of the proposed study is to examine developmental trajectories of socially withdrawn and control children/adolescents from the first to the last year of middle school (6th to 8th grade) and across the transition into the first year of high school (9th grade), with particular emphasis on the roles of significant relationships in modifying or reinforcing these trajectories. The early adolescent period in general and, in particular, the transition to high school is a time of enormous social, emotional, and physical changes for children. The developmental risks and potential protective factors of this period are likely to be more intense, complex, and carry more serious consequences than the earlier period being studied in our current project. The extension of our study to 9th grade will allow us to examine the cumulative effects of social withdrawal, as well as tracking potential developmental trajectories, that would be impossible to test with our current data. The first specific aim is to evaluate differences between control and withdrawn children in the nature and quality of their relationships with best friends and parents in 6th, 8th, and 9th grades. The second specific aim is to determine how behavioral characteristics in each grade (6th, 8th, 9th) are related to adjustment outcomes, and how these associations are moderated by the nature and quality of relationships with best friends and parents. "Outcomes" include internalizing and externalizing problems or the lack thereof as well as self-perceptions of competence in various domains. The third specific aim is to assess the stability over time (grades 6, 8, 9) of (a) behavioral characteristics (e.g., social withdrawal) and (b) the nature and quality of relationships with best friends and parents. Finally the fourth specific aim is to evaluate the ways in which relationships with best friends and parents shape adjustment over time, and how these pathways differ as a function of behavioral status (withdrawal versus control).

描述（由申请人提供）：拟议的调查构成了NIMH资助的纵向项目（NIH＃MH58116）的扩展，其中在他们在过渡到中学之前和之后，对社会撤离，侵略性和对照儿童的友谊和亲子关系进行了研究。拟议的研究的主要目的是检查从中学的第一到最后一年（六年级至8年级）的社会撤离和控制儿童/青少年的发展轨迹，以及整个高中一年级（9年级）的过渡，并特别强调了重大关系在修改或增强这些轨迹方面的重要关系。一般来说，青春期初期，尤其是向高中的过渡是一个对儿童进行巨大社会，情感和身体变化的时期。与当前项目中所研究的早期时期相比，这一时期的发展风险和潜在保护因素可能更加强烈，复杂和更严重的后果。我们的研究扩展到九年级将使我们能够检查社会退出的累积影响，以及跟踪潜在的发展轨迹，这是无法使用我们当前数据测试的。 第一个具体目的是评估6年级，8年级和9年级与最好的朋友和父母的关系的控制和撤回儿童之间的差异。第二个具体目的是确定每个年级（第六，第8，9）的行为特征与调整结果的关系以及与最好的朋友和父母的关系的性质和质量如何相关。 “结果”包括内在化和外在化问题，或缺乏内部化问题以及对各个领域的能力的自我认知。第三个具体目的是评估（a）行为特征（例如，社交戒断）和（b）与最好的朋友和父母的关系的性质和质量，评估（a）行为特征（例如社交戒断）的稳定性（6，8，9）。最后，第四个具体目标是评估与最好的朋友和父母的关系随着时间的推移塑造调整的方式，以及这些途径如何随行为状态的函数（撤回与控制）的函数而差异。