Parent Behavior and Child Adjustment Across Cultures

跨文化的父母行为和儿童适应

• 批准号: 7931952
• 负责人: Jennifer E Lansford
• 金额: $ 25.98万
• 依托单位: DUKE UNIVERSITY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2007
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2007-09-30 至 2012-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7931952
• 关键词: 8 year old; Address; Adverse effects; Affect; Affective; African American; Aggressive behavior; Anxiety; Behavior; Belief; Characteristics; Child; Child Abuse and Neglect; Child Development; China; Cognitive; Country; Data Analyses; Discipline; Emotional; Equation; European; Family; Fathers; Growth; India; International; Intervention; Interview; Italy; Kenya; Laws; Lead; Life; Link; Measurable; Measurement; Measures; Mediating; Methods; Mexican; Modeling; Mothers; Parent-Child Relations; Parenting behavior; Parents; Philippines; Pilot Projects; Policies; Policy Making; Public Health; Reporting; Research; Research Personnel; Schools; Structure; Subgroup; Sweden; Testing; Thailand; United States; developmental psychology; follow-up; high risk; information processing; multilevel analysis; physical abuse; prevent; 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. 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. Each country 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.

描述（由申请人提供）：本研究探讨了父母的管教策略如何影响儿童的发展。第一个和第二个目标是检验严厉管教与儿童适应之间的关联是否受到以下因素的调节：1）管教方法的规范性，如文化上对其使用的接受程度所表明的，2）亲子关系的情感质量。我们假设，在文化规范和亲子关系温暖的条件下，严厉的管教和孩子的适应困难之间的联系较弱。第三个目的是检验严厉管教与儿童适应困难之间的关联是否是通过儿童对管教的认知评价来调节的。假设儿童解释管教实践的方式可以部分解释管教与儿童适应之间的联系。作为理解儿童对管教实践的解释的一部分，我们将尝试将文化“分解”为可测量的情境成分，并了解影响养育实践和儿童对它们的解释的文化的具体特征（例如信仰、价值观）。我们将收集和分析 8 个国家（即中国、印度、意大利、肯尼亚、菲律宾、瑞典、泰国、美国）以及这些国家内的子群体的数据。每个国家之所以被选中，是因为它们有潜力为了解父母的管教行为如何影响孩子的适应做出独特的贡献。将对每个文化群体的 100 名儿童及其父母进行结构化访谈。纵向随访将在初次评估后 12 个月和 24 个月进行。将通过结构方程建模和多级建模进行分析，其中测量场合嵌套在家庭中，而家庭又嵌套在文化中。关于养育方式影响儿童适应的机制的研究结果将对公共健康产生影响，因为它们有可能影响旨在预防适应问题的干预措施，特别是在受虐待和其他高风险群体中。从多种文化角度了解父母的管教做法与儿童的适应如何相关，有可能为发展心理学在法律、政策和干预中的应用提供信息。