Developmental and interpersonal antecedents of parenting orientations and behavior: A life history perspective

养育取向和行为的发展和人际前因：生活史视角

• 批准号: 1728168
• 负责人: Jeffry Simpson
• 金额: $ 33万
• 依托单位: University of Minnesota-Twin Cities
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2017
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2017-09-01 至 2022-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1728168&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Developmental; interpersonal; antecedents; parenting; orientations

Few events in life rival the importance of raising children. Compared to most species, humans invest heavily in their children, but some parents are neglectful, indifferent, or even hostile toward their children. This project examines why certain parents tend to invest more versus less time, effort, attention, support, and resources in their children. Little is currently known about: (a) what kinds of early-life events/experiences lead individuals to become more versus less investing parents in adulthood and (b) how parental investment is affected by the quality of the relationship with one's partner. In addition, the role that fathers play in parenting has been under studied, and relatively little is known about how partners co-parent their children as a function of their early-life experiences or the quality of their relationship. This research addresses these issues and is aimed at filling these critical gaps in knowledge and understanding of parenting practices and behavior.Two studies will address these aims. In Study 1, new codings and analyses will be conducted on a unique longitudinal sample that has lifespan data on parenting outcomes (the Minnesota Longitudinal Study of Risk and Adaptation; MLSRA). Participants in this sample have been continuously followed from before birth into middle adulthood. The MLSRA has excellent measures of how individuals were treated as children, what happened to them across development, and how they are parenting their own children years later in adulthood. This study will examine how certain early life experiences (e.g., the amount of life stress, the occurrence of maltreatment) prospectively predict parents' views about investing time, effort, and resources in their children and how they actually behave (based on video-recordings) when interacting with their children. Study 2 is a new laboratory study of parenting behavior involving mothers, fathers, and their first-born toddlers. This study, which involves video-recording mothers, fathers, and their toddler engaging in parenting tasks, will: (a) examine whether certain types of perceived early-life stress are associated with parenting attitudes and behavior in a family context, (b) investigate whether the quality of the partners' relationship buffers exposure to early-life stress, (c) identify whether certain types of perceived early-life stress are associated with fathers' and mothers' implicit (vs. explicit) parenting attitudes, and (d) determine whether implicit parenting attitudes mediate the relation between early-life stress and parenting attitudes and behavior.

生活中很少有事情比得上抚养孩子的重要性。与大多数物种相比，人类对孩子的投资很大，但有些父母对孩子漠不关心，漠不关心，甚至怀有敌意。这个项目探讨了为什么某些父母倾向于在孩子身上投入更多而不是更少的时间，精力，注意力，支持和资源。目前对以下问题知之甚少：（a）什么样的早期生活事件/经历导致个体在成年后成为更多而不是更少投资的父母;（B）父母投资如何受到与伴侣关系质量的影响。此外，父亲在养育子女方面所起的作用一直没有得到充分的研究，而关于伴侣如何共同养育子女作为其早年生活经历或关系质量的函数，人们所知甚少。本研究旨在解决这些问题，并旨在填补这些知识和理解的育儿实践和行为的关键差距。在研究1中，将对一个独特的纵向样本进行新的编码和分析，该样本具有关于养育结果的寿命数据（明尼苏达州风险和适应纵向研究; MLSRA）。该样本中的参与者从出生前一直持续到成年中期。MLSRA有很好的措施来衡量个人在儿童时期如何被对待，他们在整个发展过程中发生了什么，以及他们如何在成年后养育自己的孩子。这项研究将探讨某些早期生活经验（例如，生活压力的大小，虐待的发生）前瞻性地预测父母对在孩子身上投入时间、精力和资源的看法，以及他们在与孩子互动时的实际行为（基于录像）。研究2是一项新的实验室研究，涉及母亲，父亲和他们的第一个孩子的养育行为。这项研究，其中涉及视频记录的母亲，父亲，和他们的幼儿从事育儿任务，将：（a）检查某些类型的感知早期生活压力是否与家庭环境中的养育态度和行为有关，（B）调查伴侣关系的质量是否缓冲了早期生活压力的暴露，（c）确定某些类型的感知早期生活压力是否与父亲和母亲的内隐（vs. explicit）parenting parenting attitudes态度，（d）内隐父母教养态度是否在早期生活压力与父母教养态度和行为之间起中介作用。