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: 7693749
• 负责人: MICHAEL POTEGAL
• 金额: $ 29.84万
• 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/7693749
• 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; Crying; Data; Depressed mood; Development; Diagnosis; Discipline; Distress; Drops; Emotional; Emotions; Equation; Facial Expression; Factor Analysis; Feeling; Future; Goals; Home environment; Intervention; Measures; Methodology; Modeling; Observational Study; Operative Surgical Procedures; Parents; Physical Restraint; Policies; Principal Component Analysis; Probability; Problem behavior; Procedures; Process; Published Comment; 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; information processing; interest; knowledge base; novel; programs; public health relevance; 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）：发脾气是情感发展的几乎普遍且高度显着的特征。从父母的角度来看，它们是最常见的儿童行为问题之一。从心理病理学的角度来看，发脾气持续到8岁，预测未来的反社会行为。从科学上讲，发脾气是通往情绪的窗口，以至于无法观察到以至于无法访问。我们在这项研究中的目标是完成包含发脾气的情绪/行为过程的定量，基于行为的模型。我们以前的因素分析和多维缩放收敛，以表明发脾气由两个独立但暂时重叠的情绪/行为过程，愤怒和困扰组成。愤怒与通过强度订购的特定行为有关，例如，低愤怒与尖叫和高愤怒有关。我们已经成功地将发脾气的兴起的兴起和下降建模为beta函数及其对表达其为逻辑多项式“链接函数”的行为的控制。在这项研究中，我们将将遇险行为（哭泣，抱怨，下降，寻求舒适）纳入2个变量，情感强度 - 行为链接功能（EI-BLF）模型，该模型将指定每种情绪对发脾气行为的影响。该模型还将包括父母干预对儿童情绪的影响。一种已经开发的用于家庭发脾气的音频/视频记录的方法，将为发脾气的声音分析，面部表达的FACS编码以及用于构建模型的GEE统计技术提供新的，更精确的数据。这项工作将提高人们对愤怒的升级，监管和社会化的理解；告知社会信息处理模型的侵略模型；通过扩展与各种愤怒行为相关的愤怒强度，使临床研究，诊断和治疗受益。更一般而言，EI-BLF模型将有助于定义情绪与其行为表达之间的关系。公共卫生相关性：该项目将完成儿童发脾气中愤怒和悲伤的情绪强度 - 行为的联系函数模型。这个小说，定量，基于行为的模型将衡量自己是自己感受的不可靠记者的幼儿的情绪。该模型的应用将提高人们对愤怒的升级，监管和社会化的理解；告知社会信息处理模型的侵略模型；并通过缩放与各种临床条件相关的愤怒强度来使临床研究，诊断和治疗受益。