A dimensional approach to understanding emotional neglect and its impact on children's psychosocial development: A mixed methods study

理解情感忽视及其对儿童社会心理发展影响的维度方法：混合方法研究

• 批准号: 10314913
• 负责人: Karissa A DiMarzio
• 金额: $ 3.66万
• 依托单位: FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2021-09-26 至 2023-09-25
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10314913
• 关键词: Age; Area; Attention; Attitude; Behavior; Caregivers; Child; Child Abuse and Neglect; Child Development; Communities; Confusion; Consensus; Consult; Data; Data Set; Development; Dimensions; Early Intervention; Emotional; Emotions; Ensure; Ethics; Family; Future; Goals; Health; Intervention; Interview; Knowledge; Mentorship; Methods; Outcome; Outcomes Research; Parent-Child Relations; Parents; Perception; Prevention; Psychosocial Assessment and Care; Public Health; Research; Research Methodology; Research Personnel; Research Training; Risk; Role; Sampling; Socialization; Structure; Supervision; Theoretical model; Training; Translating; Work; base; career; caregiving; child protective service; design; early adolescence; early experience; emotional abuse; emotional experience; emotional neglect; improved; informal support; intergenerational; maltreatment; person centered; psychologic; psychosocial; psychosocial development; racial and ethnic; service intervention; sex; social; social determinants; therapy development; training opportunity

Project Summary Emotional neglect is one of the most prevalent and pervasive forms of child maltreatment and has been associated with deleterious consequences across development. Importantly, consequences may be further compounded by the fact that it is also the most difficult form of maltreatment to detect due to its diverse range of presentations and (often) lack of visible harm to the child. Despite calls for greater empirical attention, emotional neglect remains the least studied subtype of maltreatment. This is due, in part, to the lack of consensus regarding what constitutes emotionally neglectful behavior. Without a refined understanding of emotional neglect, the field risks overlooking children and families in need of psychosocial supports. By improving identification of at-risk families, we are ensuring early intervention services to those children, and in doing so, improving their developmental trajectories. Broadly, the proposed project will employ an explanatory sequential mixed methods design to examine multiple facets of emotional neglect that can occur within parent-child interactions. Person- centered approaches will be used to identify profiles of emotional neglect and their associations with child psychosocial outcomes (Research Aim 1) as well as to evaluate whether the impact of emotional neglect differs according to child age (Research Aim 2). Additionally, in-depth qualitative data will be collected from a diverse subset of parents to assess parental attitudes and perceptions of emotional neglect (Research Aim 3). The integration of quantitative and qualitative data collected in the study will refine our conceptual and theoretical understanding of emotional neglect, particularly across parent and child age, sex, and racial/ethnic background. Mentorship provided through the F31 will take a comprehensive team approach. Drs. Parent and Alegría will supervise the overall proposed study and training plan. Drs. Parent, Humphreys, and Alegría will provide mentorship on the study of implications of caregiver emotional neglect for child development (Training Goal 1). Drs. Alegría, Alvarez, and Parent will consult on acquiring an advanced understanding of the social determinants of caregiving behavior and family functioning (Training Goal 2). Drs. Hayes, Alegría, and Alvarez will provide mentorship in the quantitative and qualitative components of mixed methods research (Training Goal 3). Training opportunities related to professional development and ethics will involve the entire mentorship team (Training Goal 4). Knowledge gained from the proposed project will propel future prevention and intervention initiatives, including the field's ability to streamline identification of families in need of informal supports from those who warrant the involvement of child protective services. The proposed research aims and training goals have been intentionally delineated to prepare the applicant for a career as an independent investigator.

项目摘要 情感忽视是虐待儿童最普遍和最普遍的形式之一， 与整个发展过程中的有害后果有关。重要的是，后果可能 由于虐待形式多样，它也是最难发现的虐待形式， 一系列的介绍和（往往）缺乏明显的伤害儿童。尽管人们呼吁更多地关注经验， 情感忽视仍然是研究最少的虐待类型。部分原因是缺乏共识 什么是情感上的疏忽行为如果没有对情感忽视的精确理解， 实地工作有可能忽视需要心理社会支助的儿童和家庭。通过改进识别 我们正在确保为这些儿童提供早期干预服务，并在这样做的同时，改善他们的 发展轨迹大体上，拟议项目将采用解释性顺序混合方法 设计来检查亲子互动中可能发生的情感忽视的多个方面。人- 集中的方法将用于确定情感忽视的概况及其与儿童的关系， 心理社会结果（研究目标1）以及评估情绪忽视的影响是否不同 根据儿童年龄（研究目标2）。此外，还将从不同的组织收集深入的定性数据。 父母的子集，以评估父母的态度和情感忽视的看法（研究目的3）。的 整合研究中收集的定量和定性数据将完善我们的概念和理论 理解情感忽视，特别是父母和孩子的年龄，性别和种族/民族背景。 通过F31提供的指导将采取全面的团队方法。帕伦特和阿莱格里亚医生 监督总体拟议的学习和培训计划。帕伦特、汉弗莱斯和阿莱格里亚医生将提供 指导研究照顾者情感忽视对儿童发展的影响（培训目标1）。 Drs. Alegría、Alvarez和Parent将就获得对社会决定因素的深入理解进行咨询。 行为和家庭功能（培训目标2）。海耶斯阿莱格里亚和阿尔瓦雷斯医生 在混合方法研究的定量和定性部分提供指导（培训目标3）。培训 与职业发展和道德相关的机会将涉及整个指导团队（培训 目标4）。从拟议项目中获得的知识将推动未来的预防和干预举措， 包括外地有能力简化查明需要非正式支助的家庭的程序， 需要儿童保护机构的介入。提出的研究目标和培训目标是 有意划定，以准备申请人的职业生涯作为一个独立的调查员。