An Ethological Analysis of Children's Emotional Security

儿童情感安全的行为学分析

• 批准号: 8066291
• 负责人: PATRICK T DAVIES
• 金额: $ 60.97万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2010
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2010-05-01 至 2015-02-28
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8066291
• 关键词: 4 year old; Accounting; Address; Apple; Basic Science; Behavioral; Characteristics; Child; Child Mental Health; Child Welfare; Child health care; Childhood; Clinical; Conflict (Psychology); Development; Developmental Process; Dimensions; Distress; Emotional; Emotions; Environment; Exhibits; Exposure to; Family; Family Characteristics; Family Process; Fathers; Foundations; Funding Opportunities; Goals; Health; Home environment; Impairment; Individual Differences; Intervention; Knowledge; Light; Measurement; Mediating; Mental Health; Mental disorders; Methods; Morphology; Mothers; Nature; Neurobiology; Neurocognitive; Parents; Pathway interactions; Pattern; Plant Roots; Policies; Prevalence; Preventive Intervention; Process; Psychological adjustment; Psychopathology; Public Policy; Research; Resources; Risk; Risk Factors; Sampling; Secure; Security; Social Problems; Societies; Specificity; Structure; Symptoms; System; Testing; Time; Translational Research; Trauma; Utility Theories; base; coping; cost; design; economic cost; experience; health economics; high risk; improved; informant; innovation; lens; novel; physical conditioning; psychologic; public health priorities; public health relevance; response; success; theories; tool

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Children exposed to high levels of interparental conflict are at disproportionately high risk for experiencing a wide array of psychological problems, including internalizing symptoms, externalizing problems, social impairments, and academic difficulties. Consequently, the burden experienced by children from high conflict homes and the resulting psychological, health, and economic costs to U.S. society are extensive. Children's emotional responses to conflict are regarded as pivotal mechanisms in understanding the risk associated with exposure to interparental discord and conflict. Thus, in accordance with the Funding Opportunity Announcement "PA-07-083 "Basic and Translational Research in Emotion", this study proposes to test a pattern-based reformulation of EST that is rooted in an ethological and evolutionary framework (EST-R; Davies & Sturge-Apple, 2007; Davies & Woitach, 2008). Toward the overarching objective of examining the utility of the novel EST-R framework, this application seeks to address the following specific aims: (1) Identify the nature of the interrelationships among the five profiles, the patterns of subjective reactivity to conflict underlying each profile, and stability and change in the profiles over time; (2) Identify the interparental, family, and child characteristics that serve as correlates and precursors in distinguishing between the different reactivity profiles; (3) Distinguish the common and distinctive neurobiological and neurocognitive underpinnings of children's behavioral profiles of reactivity to conflict; (4) Delineate the mental and physical health trajectories of the EST- R profiles, including testing the incremental power of the specific profiles to predict specific trajectories of children's adjustment after taking into account prevailing measurement approaches; and (5) Contribute to intervention initiatives aimed at addressing children's coping and adaptation to interparental conflict by delineating possible points of intervention associated with particular patterns of children's responding. To accomplish these aims, the project will follow a sample of 250 mothers, fathers, and their four year-old children over three annual measurement occasions. The multi-method, multi-informant, and multi-level measurement battery combined with powerful, sophisticated latent and pattern-based quantitative approaches will generate authoritative tests of the novel, theoretically guided research questions and hypotheses. Consequently, the study has the potential to significantly advance knowledge on family and developmental processes underlying children's trajectories of health and inform prevention and intervention initiatives to alleviate the impact of risky family environments on the development of trauma related psychopathology towards reducing the burden of mental illness in children. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: In light of the prevalence of discord between parents and its profound costs to children and society, understanding how children adapt to interparental difficulties is an important public health priority. Accordingly, the overarching objective of this project is to (a) distinguish between different patterns of children's responses to their parents' conflicts, (b) identify the characteristics in the family that are associated with children's responses to conflict, and (c) chart the implications of these responses to conflict for children's mental and physical health. By addressing these questions, this application will help provide knowledge necessary to inform clinical and policy initiatives designed to improve the welfare of children and families.

描述（由申请人提供）：暴露于高水平的父母冲突的儿童因遇到各种心理问题的风险不成比例，包括内在化症状，外在化问题，社会障碍和学术困难。因此，来自高冲突之家的儿童经历的负担以及由此产生的心理，健康和经济成本对美国社会的负担很大。儿童对冲突的情绪反应被认为是理解与互不和谐和冲突相关的风险的关键机制。 Thus, in accordance with the Funding Opportunity Announcement "PA-07-083 "Basic and Translational Research in Emotion", this study proposes to test a pattern-based reformulation of EST that is rooted in an ethological and evolutionary framework (EST-R; Davies & Sturge-Apple, 2007; Davies & Woitach, 2008). Toward the overarching objective of examining the utility of the novel EST-R framework, this application seeks to address the following specific目的：（1）确定五个概况之间的相互关系的性质，对每个特征的冲突的主观反应性，以及随着时间的流逝的稳定性和变化；对冲突的反应性；（4）描述了埃斯特概况的身心健康轨迹，包括测试特定概况的增量能力，以预测儿童在考虑到普遍的测量方法后的特定轨迹； （5）旨在通过描述与儿童反应的特定模式相关的可能的干预点来解决儿童应对和适应父母冲突的措施。 为了实现这些目标，该项目将在三个年度测量场合中遵循250位母亲，父亲及其四岁的孩子的样本。多方法，多信息和多级测量电池与强大的，精致的潜在和基于模式的定量方法结合使用，将对小说，理论上指导的研究问题和假设产生权威性测试。因此，这项研究有可能大大提高有关儿童健康轨迹基础的家庭和发展过程的知识，并为预防和干预措施提供依据，以减轻风险家庭环境对与创伤相关的心理病理学发展的影响，以减少儿童精神疾病的负担。 公共卫生的相关性：鉴于父母之间的不和谐与其对儿童和社会的深远成本的普遍性，了解儿童如何适应室内的困难是重要的公共卫生优先事项。因此，该项目的总体目标是（a）区分儿童对父母冲突的反应的不同模式，（b）确定与儿童对冲突的反应相关的家庭中的特征，以及（c）图表这些对冲突对儿童心理和身体健康的反应的含义。通过解决这些问题，本申请将有助于提供必要的知识，以告知旨在改善儿童和家庭福利的临床和政策计划。