An Ethological Analysis of Children's Profiles of Security in Peer Contexts

对儿童同伴环境中安全感的行为学分析

• 批准号: 8435423
• 负责人: DANTE CICCHETTI CICCHETTI
• 金额: $ 21.9万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2012
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2012-04-01 至 2014-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8435423
• 关键词: 11 year old; Address; Aggressive behavior; Anxiety; Apple; Behavior; Behavioral; Camping; Characteristics; Child; Child Behavior; Child Development; Child Mental Health; Child Welfare; Childhood; Clinical; Code; Complex; Conflict (Psychology); Data Set; Descriptor; Development; Ecology; Emotional; Equation; Equilibrium; Ethology; Event; Exploratory/Developmental Grant; Expressed Sequence Tags; Family; Goals; Incidence; Individual Differences; Intervention; Knowledge; Light; Longitudinal Studies; Maintenance; Measurement; Mental Health; Methods; Modeling; Nature; Pattern; Peer Group; Persons; Policies; Prevalence; Process; Psychological adjustment; Psychopathology; Public Health; Reliance; Research; Risk; Risk Factors; Safety; Sampling; Scheme; Schools; Secure; Security; Social Adjustment; Social Behavior; Social Conditions; Social isolation; Societies; Specificity; Staging; Structure; Testing; Time; Translating; Withdrawal; base; bullying; child adoption; clinically significant; coping; depressive symptoms; design; economic cost; experience; high risk; improved; indexing; informant; innovation; novel; peer; psychologic; public health priorities; response; school violence; social; theories

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Coping with peer adversity is a common occurrence in childhood that markedly increases the risk for psychopathology and adjustment problems. However, little is known about the nature, precursors, correlates, and developmental sequelae of individual differences in children's behavioral patterns of responding to peer difficulties. In addressing this knowledge gap, this proposal is designed to apply the ethological reformulation of Emotional Security Theory (EST-R; Davies & Sturge-Apple, 2007) to advance the study of children's social behavior within agonic peer relationships in relation to the goal of maintaining sense of security in peer contexts. As a first test of the utility of the EST-R for the study of per dynamics, this application seeks to address the following specific aims: (1) identify the nature and developmental course (i.e., stability, change) of individual differences in children's adoption of five security profiles of defending against peer threat, (2) explicate interrelationships betwee the security profiles and the proximal characteristics of the peer ecology, and (4) examine hypothesized specificity in the mental health and social adjustment sequelae of the security profiles over the course of one year. To address these objectives, this application proposes to utilize a rich existing data set that followed a high risk sample of over 238 6- to 11-year-old children through two summer camps spaced one year apart. As a supplement to the project, a novel measurement approach will be implemented to rigorously examine children's patterns of behavioral responding to threatening peer events in naturalistic peer settings using an innovative ethologically-based coding scheme. Within the context of careful observations and a broader multi-method, multi-informant design, the sophisticated multi-level structural equation modeling and pattern-based analyses are designed to offer rigorous tests of the novel, theoretically guided hypotheses. Consequently, the study has the potential to significantly advance knowledge on the developmental nature, precursors, and sequelae of discordant peer relationships with direct implications for improving targeted identification of children at risk an guiding studies that identify distinct causal processes and target mechanisms for change in intervention initiatives. .

描述（由申请人提供）：应对同伴逆境是童年时期的常见情况，它显着增加了精神病理学和调整问题的风险。但是，关于儿童对同伴困难的行为模式的个体差异的性质，前体，相关性和发育后遗症知之甚少。在解决这一知识差距时，该提案旨在应用情感安全理论的伦理重新制定（EST-R； Davies＆Sturge-Apple，2007年），以促进研究与保持同伴背景中的安全感有关的辅助同伴关系中儿童社会行为的研究。作为对EST-R对每个动态研究的实用性的首次测试，本申请试图解决以下特定目的：（1）确定儿童收养的个体差异的性质和发展过程（即稳定，变化） （2）在安全性生态学的安全概况和近端特征中阐明相互关系的五个安全概况，（4）在一年的时间内检查了安全概况的心理健康和社会调整后遗症中的假设特异性。 为了解决这些目标，本申请建议利用一个丰富的现有数据集，该数据集经过238至11岁儿童的高风险样本，穿过一个相隔一年的夏令营。作为对该项目的补充，将采用一种新颖的测量方法来严格检查儿童的行为模式，以应对威胁自然主义同伴环境中的同伴事件，使用创新的基于伦理学的编码方案。在仔细观察和更广泛的多方法设计的背景下，复杂的多级结构方程建模和基于模式的分析旨在提供小说的严格测试，理论上引导的假设。因此，这项研究有可能显着提高对不一致的同伴关系的发展性质，前体和后遗症的知识，并直接涉及改善对风险的儿童的有针对性鉴定的指导研究，这些研究识别出不同的因果过程和针对干预计划变化的目标机制。 。