Quantifying Children's Emotions with the Emotion Intensity-Linkage Function Model

用情绪强度联动函数模型量化儿童情绪

• 批准号: 7522480
• 负责人: MICHAEL POTEGAL
• 金额: $ 31.12万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2008
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2008-09-30 至 2011-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7522480
• 关键词: 2 year old; Accounting; Acoustics; Adopted; Affect; Age; Aggressive behavior; Anger; Area Under Curve; Behavior; Behavior Control; Behavioral; Benign; Calendar; Categories; Characteristics; Child; Child Behavior; Childhood; Clinical; Clinical Research; Code; Computer information processing; Condition; Crying; Data; Depressed mood; Development; Diagnosis; Discipline; Disease regression; Distress; Drops; Emotional; Emotions; Equation; Facial Expression; Facility Construction Funding Category; Factor Analysis; Feeling; Future; Goals; Home environment; Intervention; Measures; Methodology; Modeling; Numbers; Observational Study; Operative Surgical Procedures; Parents; Physical Restraint; Policies; Principal Component Analysis; Probability; Problem behavior; Procedures; Process; Public Health; Published Comment; Purpose; Rate; Regulation; Reporter; Reporting; Research; Science; Socialization; Specific qualifier value; Techniques; Testing; Time; Training; Variant; Video Recording; Work; anti social; base; behavior influence; driving behavior; early childhood; emotion regulation; experience; falls; improved; interest; knowledge base; novel; programs; repaired; response; social; social attachment; vocalization

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Tantrums are a near universal and highly salient feature of emotional development. From parents' perspective, they are among the most commonly reported childhood behavioral problems. From a psychopathological perspective, tantrums persisting to age 8 predict future antisocial behavior. Scientifically, tantrums are a window onto emotions so intense as to be otherwise inaccessible to observation. Our goal in this study is to complete a quantitative, behaviorally based model of the emotional/behavioral processes comprising tantrums. Our previous factor analyses and multidimensional scaling converged to show that tantrums are composed of two independent but temporally overlapping emotional/ behavioral processes, Anger and Distress. Anger is associated with specific behaviors that are ordered by intensity, e.g., low anger is associated with stamping and high anger with screaming. We have already successfully modeled the rise and fall of tantrum anger as a Beta function and its control of the behaviors that express it as logit- polynomial "linkage functions." In this study, we will incorporate Distress behaviors (crying, whining, dropping down, comfort seeking) into a 2 variable, Emotion Intensity-Behavioral Linkage Function (EI- BLF) model that will specify the influence of each emotion on the set of tantrum behaviors. The model will also include the effects of parental intervention on children's emotions. An already developed methodology for audio/video recording of in-home tantrums will provide new, more temporally precise data for the acoustic spectral analyses of tantrum vocalizations, FACs coding of facial expression, and GEE statistical techniques used to construct the model. This work will improve the understanding of the escalation, regulation and socialization of anger; inform social information processing models of aggression; and benefit clinical research, diagnosis and treatment by scaling the intensity of anger associated with various angry behaviors. More generally, the EI-BLF model will help define the relationship between emotions and their behavioral expression. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: This project will complete the Emotion Intensity-Behavioral Linkage Function model of anger and sadness in children's tantrums. This novel, quantitative, behaviorally-based model will measure the emotions of young children who are unreliable reporters of their own feelings. Application of this model will improve the understanding of the escalation, regulation and socialization of anger; inform social information processing models of aggression; and benefit clinical research, diagnosis and treatment by scaling the intensity of anger associated with various clinical conditions.

描述（由申请人提供）：发脾气是情绪发展中几乎普遍且非常显着的特征。从父母的角度来看，它们是最常见的儿童行为问题之一。从精神病理学的角度来看，持续发脾气到 8 岁预示着未来的反社会行为。从科学角度来看，发脾气是观察情绪的窗口，情绪如此强烈，否则无法观察到。我们这项研究的目标是完成一个包含发脾气的情绪/行为过程的基于行为的定量模型。我们之前的因素分析和多维尺度表明，发脾气是由两个独立但在时间上重叠的情绪/行为过程组成的，即愤怒和痛苦。愤怒与按强度排序的特定行为相关，例如，低愤怒与跺脚相关，高愤怒与尖叫相关。我们已经成功地将发脾气的上升和下降建模为 Beta 函数，并将其对行为的控制建模为对数多项式“联动函数”。在这项研究中，我们将把痛苦行为（哭泣、抱怨、倒地、寻求安慰）纳入一个 2 变量情绪强度-行为联动函数 (EI-BLF) 模型，该模型将指定每种情绪对发脾气集的影响行为。该模型还将包括父母干预对儿童情绪的影响。已经开发出的家庭发脾气音频/视频记录方法将为发脾气发声的声谱分析、面部表情的 FAC 编码以及用于构建模型的 GEE 统计技术提供新的、时间上更精确的数据。这项工作将增进对愤怒升级、调节和社会化的理解；告知攻击性的社会信息处理模型；通过衡量与各种愤怒行为相关的愤怒强度，有利于临床研究、诊断和治疗。更一般地说，EI-BLF 模型将有助于定义情绪与其行为表达之间的关系。公共健康相关性：该项目将完成儿童发脾气时的愤怒和悲伤的情绪强度-行为联动函数模型。这种新颖的、定量的、基于行为的模型将测量幼儿的情绪，这些幼儿对于自己的感受是不可靠的报告者。该模型的应用将提高对愤怒升级、调节和社会化的理解；告知攻击性的社会信息处理模型；通过衡量与各种临床状况相关的愤怒强度，有利于临床研究、诊断和治疗。