Longitudinal Pathways of Paternal Depression: Risk, Resilience, and Health in Diverse Fathers

父亲抑郁的纵向路径：不同父亲的风险、弹性和健康

• 批准号: 2127325
• 负责人: Darby Saxbe
• 金额: $ 60.66万
• 依托单位: University of Southern California
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2021-12-01 至 2026-11-30
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2127325&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Longitudinal; Pathways; Paternal; Depression; Risk

Families benefit from father involvement. Yet, the transition to fatherhood can be a time of heightened risk for depression in men, with important consequences for families. For example, paternal depression has been linked with behavior and health problems in children, greater maternal depression, poorer relationship quality, and poorer overall familial well-being.The specific mechanisms that explain the relationship between paternal depression and family outcomes remain under-studied, especially in populations of diverse fathers whose experiences of fatherhood may differ in important ways. This study builds on theoretical insights from developmental and family psychology to understand the mechanisms underpinning relationships between paternal depression and family outcomes. Insights will inform practice and policy efforts geared toward fathers and families, and will also train students and provide early-career mentoring for individuals from underrepresented groups. Findings will be disseminated broadly to academic and non-academic audiences, including via targeted public outreach. The project will follow an existing sample of fathers recruited before the birth of their first child across the first seven years of new parenthood, pursuing three primary objectives: 1) describe the longitudinal trajectories of paternal depressive symptoms; 2) test relationships among paternal depressive symptoms, family functioning, and child development; and 3) examine associations between paternal depressive symptoms and psychneuroimmunological outcomes. The study pursues these objectives via holistic methodological approach, including collection of biological data for assessment of immunological function, brain imaging, and behavioral observations. As one of the first prospective, longitudinal studies of paternal perinatal depression and its associations with child and mother well-being as well as immune and brain health, this project will yield new insights into father mental health, father-child relationships, and child development.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

家庭受益于父亲的参与。然而，向父亲的过渡可能是男性患抑郁症的风险增加的时期，对家庭产生重要影响。例如，父亲抑郁症与儿童的行为和健康问题有关，母亲抑郁症更严重，关系质量更差，整体家庭幸福感更差，解释父亲抑郁症与家庭结果之间关系的具体机制仍然研究不足，特别是在不同父亲的人群中，他们的父亲经历可能在重要方面有所不同。本研究建立在发展和家庭心理学的理论见解，以了解父亲抑郁症和家庭结果之间的关系的基础机制。这些见解将为面向父亲和家庭的实践和政策努力提供信息，还将培训学生，并为代表性不足的群体提供早期职业指导。调查结果将广泛传播给学术界和非学术界受众，包括通过有针对性的公共宣传。该项目将跟踪在第一个孩子出生前招募的父亲的样本，在新父母的前七年，追求三个主要目标：1）描述父亲抑郁症状的纵向轨迹; 2）测试父亲抑郁症状，家庭功能和儿童发展之间的关系; 3）检查父亲抑郁症状和心理神经免疫结果之间的关联。该研究通过整体方法学方法追求这些目标，包括收集生物学数据以评估免疫功能，脑成像和行为观察。作为针对父亲围产期抑郁症及其与儿童和母亲福祉以及免疫和大脑健康的关联的首批前瞻性纵向研究之一，该项目将对父亲心理健康、父子关系、该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响进行评估，被认为值得支持审查标准。