Mother-Child Dynamics in the Transmission of Social Anxiety: The Roles of Maternal Verbal Communication and Child Attention

社交焦虑传播中的母子动态：母亲言语交流和儿童注意力的作用

• 批准号: 10315574
• 负责人: Selin Zeytinoglu
• 金额: $ 7.38万
• 依托单位: UNIV OF MARYLAND, COLLEGE PARK
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2021-12-05 至 2024-12-04
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10315574
• 关键词: Mother; Child; Dynamics; Transmission; Social

PROJECT SUMMARY Maternal social anxiety is associated with child social anxiety, suggesting that mothers transmit social anxiety to their children. One pathway to explain this transmission is through children’s social learning from their mothers. Late childhood is an important period for the onset of social anxiety and social anxiety emerging during this period is associated with adverse life outcomes. Thus, there is critical need to understand the social processes through which children acquire social anxiety from their mothers during this period. Children may acquire social anxiety as a result of attending to their mothers’ negative verbal communication regarding social situations. Our preliminary findings provided support for this hypothesis showing that maternal negative verbal communication mediates the transmission of social fear from mothers to children. However, how maternal social anxiety shapes the moment-to-moment dynamics of mother-child communication regarding fear-relevant stimuli is largely unknown. More socially anxious mothers may transmit social anxiety to their children through negative verbal communication and/or by facilitating a rigid dyadic interaction pattern during which children attend to negative social input for extensive durations. This project’s aims are to (a) examine whether maternal negative verbal communication mediates the influence of maternal social anxiety on children’s laboratory- based social fear, (b) examine whether mother-child dyadic rigidity (i.e., perseveration in child attending to negative maternal input) mediates the influence of maternal social anxiety on children’s laboratory-based social fear, (c) examine the mediating roles of maternal negative verbal communication and dyadic rigidity in the association between maternal social anxiety and child social anxiety 6 months later. One hundred 9-12-year- old children and their mothers will participate in one laboratory visit and complete questionnaires 2-weeks before and 6 months after this visit. During the visit, dyads will complete a mother-child social interaction task during which mothers will talk about two hypothetical peers with their children. Prior to this task, mothers will receive positive information regarding one peer and negative information regarding the other peer. Mothers will be instructed to show the pictures of these peers during conversations. Child participants will wear comfortable mobile eye-tracking glasses and their visual attention to the two peer pictures and their mother’s face will be tracked during the conversations. Child attention to maternal positive and negative social input will be examined using a dynamic systems method (i.e., state space grids). Upon completion of this project, I will have tested two possible mechanisms by which mothers may transmit social anxiety to their children. The proposed study will make a significant contribution to the scientific knowledge on how mothers transfer social anxiety to their children and may provide a novel target for family-based interventions. I will also receive in-depth training in (a) theories and methods of dynamic systems approaches, (b) use of mobile eye-tracking in the context of dynamic social interactions and (c) interventions used in the prevention of childhood anxiety problems.

项目摘要 母亲社交焦虑与儿童社交焦虑相关，提示母亲传递社交焦虑 给他们的孩子。解释这种传播的一个途径是通过儿童从他们的社会学习， 妈妈们儿童晚期是社交焦虑发病和出现的重要时期 在此期间，与不良的生活结果有关。因此，迫切需要了解社会 在此期间，孩子从母亲那里获得社交焦虑的过程。儿童可能 获得社交焦虑的结果，参加他们的母亲的负面言语沟通，关于社会 situations.我们的初步研究结果为这一假设提供了支持，表明母亲的消极言语行为 沟通是将社会恐惧从母亲传给子女的媒介。然而，如何母性 社交焦虑塑造了母子沟通的时刻动态， 刺激因素在很大程度上是未知的。更多社交焦虑的母亲可能会通过以下方式将社交焦虑传递给孩子 消极的口头交流和/或通过促进严格的二元互动模式，在此期间， 长时间地关注负面的社会投入。该项目的目的是（a）检查产妇是否 消极言语交流在母亲社交焦虑对儿童实验室-心理健康的影响中起中介作用。 基于社会恐惧，（B）检查母子二元刚性（即，儿童照料持续性 母亲的负性输入）在母亲社交焦虑对儿童实验室社交焦虑的影响中起中介作用 恐惧，（c）检查中介作用的母亲消极的口头交流和二元刚性在 母亲社交焦虑与6个月后儿童社交焦虑的相关性100名9-12岁- 年龄较大的儿童及其母亲将参加一次实验室访视，并完成2周的问卷调查 在这次访问之前和之后的六个月。在参观期间，二人组将完成一项母子社交互动任务 在这段时间里，母亲们会和孩子们谈论两个假想的同龄人。在此之前，母亲们将 接收关于一个对等体的肯定信息和关于另一对等体的否定信息。的母亲都会 被指示在对话期间展示这些同伴的照片。儿童参与者将穿着舒适 移动的眼球跟踪眼镜和他们的视觉注意力的两个同龄人的图片和他们的母亲的脸将 在谈话中被跟踪。幼儿对母亲积极和消极社会投入的关注程度会 使用动态系统方法（即，国家空间网格）。在这个项目完成后，我将有 测试了两种可能的机制，母亲可能会通过这种机制将社交焦虑传递给孩子。拟议 这项研究将对母亲如何将社交焦虑转移到孩子身上的科学知识做出重大贡献。 他们的孩子，并可能提供一个新的目标，以家庭为基础的干预。我也会接受深入的培训 在（a）动态系统方法的理论和方法中，（B）在以下背景下使用移动的眼睛跟踪： 动态的社会互动和（c）用于预防儿童焦虑问题的干预措施。