Maternal behavior among Puerto Rican adolescent mothers

波多黎各青少年母亲的母亲行为

• 批准号: 7094636
• 负责人: JOSEFINA M GRAU
• 金额: $ 27.02万
• 依托单位: KENT STATE UNIVERSITY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2006
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2006-08-01 至 2010-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7094636
• 关键词: Puerto Rican; adolescence (12-20); age at pregnancy; behavior test; behavioral /social science research tag; child behavior; child care; child psychology; child rearing; clinical research; culture; early experience; emotions; family structure /dynamics; human subject; immigrant; longitudinal human study; maternal behavior; mother child interaction; nonEnglish language; outcomes research; preschool child (1-5); sex partner; social support network; women' s health

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Remarkably little is known about factors related to parenting and child outcomes among Latina adolescent mothers. Understanding these factors is critical in light of the fact that the birth rate for Latino youth is substantially larger than that for any other group, and Latinos are the largest and fastest growing minority group in the US. The aims of this proposal are to test 1) direct and moderated (by residential context) relations between different types of supports provided by the adolescents' mothers (grandmothers) and partners and the quality of parenting displayed by young mainland Puerto Rican mothers; 2) how indices of parenting are related to changes in children's cognitive and emotional/behavioral outcomes during early childhood; and 3) how acculturation level moderates the above relations. The study examines the above associations among families with children in their second year of life (18ms & 24ms) as adverse cognitive and emotional/behavioral difficulties start to emerge during this time. It uses a multi-method, longitudinal design to examine maternal behavior and child outcomes among 180 English- and Spanish-speaking Puerto Rican adolescent mothers and their children. Data are gathered at the participants' home. The role of support is studied in terms of sources of support (grandmothers & partners), types of supports (social support & child care support), and the residential and cultural context in which the support is embedded (coresidence with support provider; acculturation level). Acculturation is assessed in terms of language use / preference and values. Indices of parenting quality are obtained through observer ratings of maternal behavior and teaching strategies during 4 mother-child interaction episodes videotaped in the mothers' homes. Children's cognitive and emotional/behavioral outcomes are measured by a standardized cognitive assessment, maternal reports of child emotional/behavioral problems, and observer ratings of child responsiveness, positive and negative affect, and compliance during mother- child interactions. This research will allow the PI to test a portion of a model of parenting she developed to account for both the developmental stage and the unique cultural and socio-demographic ecology of Latina adolescent mothers in the U.S. Findings will aid in the identification of universal and culture-specific factors related to parenting and child developmental processes among Puerto Rican adolescent mothers, contribute to our conceptual understanding of what constitutes optimal parenting among Latina mothers of different acculturation levels, and help uncover factors related to successful outcomes among children of Latina adolescent mothers.

描述（由申请人提供）：关于与拉丁裔青少年母亲之间的育儿和儿童结果有关的因素，知之甚少。鉴于拉丁裔青年的出生率大大比任何其他群体的出生率大得多，而拉丁美洲人是美国增长最大，增长最快的少数群体，因此了解这些因素至关重要。该提议的目的是测试1）青少年母亲（祖母）提供的不同类型的支持之间的直接和调节（通过住宅环境）之间的关系，以及幼年波多黎各人的母亲所展示的育儿质量； 2）育儿指标与儿童早期的认知和情感/行为结果的变化如何相关； 3）适应水平如何缓和上述关系。该研究研究了在这段时间内出现的不良认知和情感/行为困难的不良认知和情感/行为困难，在他们的第二年（18ms＆24ms）中探讨了上述儿童之间的联系。它使用多种方法，纵向设计来检查180名英语和西班牙语的波多黎各青少年母亲及其子女的产妇行为和儿童结果。数据收集在参与者的家中。根据支持来源（祖母和合作伙伴），支持的类型（社会支持和儿童支持）以及嵌入支持的住宅和文化背景（与支持提供者的核心；适应水平）一起研究了支持的作用。根据语言使用 /偏好和价值观评估适应性。育儿质量的指标是通过观察者在母亲家中录制的4个母子互动情节中的孕产妇行为和教学策略的评分来获得的。儿童的认知和情感/行为结果是通过标准化的认知评估，儿童情绪/行为问题的母亲报告以及儿童反应能力，积极和负面影响以及在母亲互动期间的合规性来衡量的。这项研究将使PI能够测试她开发的育儿模型的一部分，以说明美国拉丁裔青少年母亲的独特文化和社会人口统计学生态学的发现，将有助于确定普遍和文化特定的因素与普罗蒂斯青少年构成的概念构成的构成构成的构成构成的概念相关的育儿和儿童发展过程相关的特定因素，以构成对构成的构成的构成构成的构成构成的构成的构成的构成范围的构成，这些构成的构成了构成的构成范围的构成范围的构成范围水平，并有助于发现与拉丁裔青少年母亲成功结局有关的因素。