Neurophysiological and behavioral dynamics of emotion in mothers with infants

婴儿母亲情绪的神经生理学和行为动力学

• 批准号: 8257775
• 负责人: Nastassia Josephine Hajal
• 金额: $ 2.46万
• 依托单位: PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY, THE
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2012
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2012-09-01 至 2013-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8257775
• 关键词: Accounting; Address; Adult; Affect; Affective; Anxiety; Awareness; Behavior; Behavioral; Birth; Caring; Child; Child Development; Data; Data Sources; Development; Distress; Early treatment; Education; Effectiveness; Electroencephalography; Emotional; Emotions; Equation; Fellowship; Foundations; Funding; Future; Goals; Individual; Individual Differences; Infant; Intervention; K-Series Research Career Programs; Knowledge; Learning; Life; Measurement; Measures; Mental Depression; Mental Health; Mentors; Methods; Modeling; Mood Disorders; Mothers; National Research Service Awards; Outcome; Parenting behavior; Parents; Participant; Pattern; Postpartum Depression; Postpartum Period; Process; Public Health; Readiness; Recovery; Reporting; Research; Research Training; Resolution; Risk; Series; Services; Specific qualifier value; Stream; Symptoms; Time; Time Series Analysis; Time Study; Training; Treatment Efficacy; Woman; Work; coping; cost; depressive symptoms; design; emotion regulation; experience; improved; intervention effect; maternal depression; millisecond; motivational processes; neurophysiology; novel; parental influence; positive emotional state; programs; relating to nervous system; response; transmission process; vector

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This application outlines the early steps in the development of a career research program focusing on parents of young children. Despite widespread acceptance that parenting is affectively organized and that parent emotional problems have deleterious effects on parent and child outcomes, little is known about in-the-moment affective processes that underlie caring for a young child. The absence of this information may contribute to inconsistent findings regarding the effectiveness of postpartum depression interventions, which seem to help a mother's symptoms but not necessarily her parenting or her child's development. Greater understanding of parental emotion may aid the design and efficacy of early interventions to improve parental emotion regulation and thus promote healthy child development. The proposed research training plan includes dissertation research using two methods of dynamic measurement of parent emotion: a behavioral method (Ecological Momentary Assessment) and a neurophysiological (EEG) method. Each allows the study of the time course of emotions in the parenting context, one at the level of a mother's awareness and the other at the level of instant neural motivational processes. I will learn to use multivariate time series analysis to make full use of these two rich data streams (e.g. unified structural equation modeling, vector autoregressive modeling) to address the following dissertation research aims: (1) To relate the time course of maternal emotion and coping in parenting challenges in their natural context to maternal depressive symptoms, and (2) To relate the time course of maternal neurophysiological response to infant distress (measured via EEG) to individual differences in time- related aspects of parental response - emotion stability and coping quality - at the behavioral level (measured via EMA) and to determine if together these account for significant variance in maternal depressive symptoms. Furthermore, the training plan includes guided development of a conceptualization of parental emotion as a dynamic process (i.e. focusing on its time course and unique context) that can be applied to future theoretical and empirical work and that should inform theoretical perspectives about parenting at-risk. It will serve as a foundation for future work in a career research program focused on understanding parent emotion in order to inform intervention for at-risk parent-child dyads.

描述（由申请人提供）：本申请概述了针对幼儿父母的职业研究计划的早期发展步骤。尽管人们普遍认为养育子女是情感组织的，并且父母的情绪问题会对父母和孩子的结果产生有害影响，但人们对照顾幼儿的当下情感过程知之甚少。缺乏这些信息可能会导致关于产后抑郁症干预措施有效性的不一致的发现，这些干预措施似乎有助于母亲的症状，但不一定有助于她的养育或孩子的发展。更好地了解父母的情绪可能有助于早期干预措施的设计和有效性，以改善父母的情绪调节，从而促进儿童的健康发展。拟议的研究培训计划包括使用两种动态测量父母情绪的方法进行论文研究：行为方法（生态瞬时评估）和神经生理学（EEG）方法。每一种方法都可以研究养育环境中情绪的时间进程，一种是在母亲的意识水平上，另一种是在即时神经动机过程的水平上。我将学习使用多元时间序列分析来充分利用这两种丰富的数据流（例如统一结构方程建模、向量自回归建模）来解决以下论文研究目标：（1）将母亲情绪的时间过程与母亲情绪的时间过程联系起来。 (2) 将母亲对婴儿痛苦的神经生理反应（通过脑电图测量）的时间过程与父母反应的时间相关方面的个体差异（情绪稳定性）联系起来和应对质量 - 在行为层面（通过 EMA 测量），并确定这些是否共同解释了母亲抑郁症状的显着差异。此外，培训计划包括指导将父母情感概念化为一个动态过程（即关注其时间进程和独特背景），该概念可应用于未来的理论和实证工作，并应为有关育儿风险的理论观点提供信息。它将作为未来职业研究项目的基础，该项目的重点是了解父母的情绪，以便为高危亲子关系的干预提供信息。