Parent Behavior and Child Adjustment Across Cultures

跨文化的父母行为和儿童适应

• 批准号: 7500621
• 负责人: Jennifer E Lansford
• 金额: $ 3.13万
• 依托单位: DUKE UNIVERSITY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2008
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2008-09-25 至 2011-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7500621
• 关键词: 8 year old; Address; Adverse effects; Affect; Affective; African American; Aggressive behavior; Anxiety; Behavior; Behavioral; Belief; Characteristics; Child; Child Abuse and Neglect; Child Behavior; Child Development; China; Cognitive; Computer information processing; Condition; Country; Data Analyses; Data Collection; Daughter; Discipline; Documentation; Emotional; Equation; European; Family; Fathers; Gender; Goals; Growth; India; International; Intervention; Interview; Italy; Jordan; Kenya; Laws; Lead; Life; Link; Measurable; Measurement; Measures; Mediating; Methods; Mexican; Modeling; Mothers; Outcome; Palestinian; Parent-Child Relations; Parenting behavior; Parents; Philippines; Pilot Projects; Policies; Policy Making; Public Health; Qualifying; Refugee Camp; Refugees; Reporting; Research; Research Personnel; Risk; Role; Role playing therapy; Sampling; Schools; Sex Characteristics; Son; Structure; Subgroup; Sweden; Testing; Thailand; United States; Ursidae Family; Variant; Woman; boys; developmental psychology; follow-up; girls; innovation; men; multilevel analysis; parent grant; parental role; physical abuse; prevent; social; theories; therapy design

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This study addresses how parents' discipline strategies affect children's development. The first and second aims are to examine whether the association between harsh discipline and child adjustment is moderated by: 1) the normativeness of the discipline method as indicated by cultural acceptance of its use, and 2) the affective quality of the parent-child relationship. We hypothesize that under conditions of cultural normativeness and warmth within the parent-child relationship, there is a weaker association between harsh discipline and children's adjustment difficulties. The third aim is to examine whether the association between harsh discipline and children's adjustment difficulties is mediated by children's cognitive appraisals regarding the discipline. The way children interpret a discipline practice is hypothesized to explain, in part, the link between discipline and children's adjustment. As part of understanding children's interpretations of discipline practices, we will try to "unpack" culture into measurable contextual components and to understand specific characteristics of culture (e.g., beliefs, values) that affect parenting practices and children's interpretations of them. In the parent grant (R01HD054805-01A1), we will collect and analyze data in 8 countries (i.e., China, India, Italy, Kenya, Philippines, Sweden, Thailand, United States) and subgroups within these countries. In this FIRCA application, we propose the addition of data collection with two cultural groups in Jordan: native Jordanians living in Amman and Palestinian refugees living in refugee camps on the outskirts of Amman. Each cultural group has been selected because of its potential to provide a unique contribution to understanding how parents' discipline behaviors affect children's adjustment. Structured interviews will be conducted with 100 children and their mothers and fathers in each cultural group. Longitudinal follow-up will occur 12 months and 24 months after the initial assessment. Analyses will be conducted through structural equation modeling and multilevel modeling in which measurement occasions are nested within families, which are nested within cultures. Findings regarding mechanisms through which parenting affects children's adjustment will have public health implications because of their potential to influence interventions designed to prevent adjustment problems, especially in maltreated and other high-risk groups. Understanding how parents' discipline practices relate to children's adjustment from multiple cultural perspectives has the potential to inform applications of developmental psychology in law, policy, and intervention. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: Documenting parents' and children's appraisals of different forms of discipline and effects of these types of discipline on children's adjustment will facilitate more informed policy-making, particularly in relation to culture- specific definitions of child maltreatment. Furthermore, our findings regarding mechanisms through which parenting affects children's adjustment will influence interventions designed to prevent adjustment problems, especially in maltreated and other high-risk groups.

描述（由申请人提供）：本研究介绍了父母的纪律策略如何影响儿童的成长。第一个和第二个目的是检查苛刻的学科和儿童调整之间的关联是否是通过以下方面的：1）纪律方法的规范性，如其使用的文化接受所表明的，以及2）父母关系的情感质量。我们假设在亲子关系中文化规范性和温暖的条件下，严厉的学科与儿童调整困难之间存在较弱的联系。第三个目的是检查苛刻的学科和儿童调整困难之间的关联是否是由儿童对学科的认知评估介导的。假设儿童解释学科实践的方式，部分解释了学科与儿童调整之间的联系。作为了解儿童对纪律实践的解释的一部分，我们将尝试将文化“解开”到可衡量的上下文组成部分中，并了解影响育儿实践和孩子对其解释的文化的特定特征（例如，信念，价值观）。在父母赠款（R01HD054805-01A1）中，我们将在8个国家（即中国，印度，意大利，意大利，肯尼亚，菲律宾，瑞典，泰国，泰国，美国）和这些国家内收集和分析数据。在此FIRCA申请中，我们建议与约旦的两个文化团体一起增加数据收集：居住在安曼和居住在安曼郊区难民营中的巴勒斯坦难民的约旦人。之所以选择每个文化群体，是因为其潜力有可能为了解父母的纪律行为如何影响孩子的适应性提供独特的贡献。结构化的访谈将与每个文化群体中的100名儿童及其母亲和父亲进行。初步评估后的12个月零24个月将进行纵向随访。分析将通过结构方程建模和多层次建模进行，其中测量场合嵌套在家庭中，这些场合嵌套在培养物中。关于育儿影响儿童调整的机制的发现将对公共卫生产生影响，因为它们有可能影响旨在防止调整问题的干预措施，尤其是在虐待和其他高风险群体中。了解父母的纪律实践与从多种文化角度的孩子的调整有关，有可能为发展心理学的应用提供法律，政策和干预的应用。公共卫生相关性：记录父母和孩子对不同形式的纪律以及这些类型的纪律对儿童调整的影响的评估，将有助于更明智的决策，尤其是与文化 - 针对儿童虐待的特定定义有关。此外，我们关于育儿影响儿童调整的机制的发现将影响旨在防止调整问题的干预措施，尤其是在虐待和其他高风险群体中。