PRECURSORS OF RETARDATION IN CHILDREN WITH TEEN MOTHERS

描述（改编自申请人的摘要） 母亲面临以下一种或多种残疾的风险：（1） 轻度智力迟钝（MR）;（2）学习障碍（LD）;或（3） 品行障碍 这项研究的目的是了解 导致各种与学校有关的延误的独特和共同因素。 青春期母亲的显著特征， 交付，将被识别。 结合婴幼儿 特色 它们将被用来预测 学龄前，从而为可识别的延迟阶段， 小学时代。 研究的另一个目的是检查 青少年母亲的生命历程，特别是在社会情感方面， 和智力发展。 智商处于边缘的青少年母亲 他们自己滑入轻度弱智，并遇到重大的生活 在他们从青春期进入青年期的过程中所承受的压力。 在下列情况下，将采取150天的母婴功能措施： 每个孩子三岁，五岁时再一次，重点是收集 MR、LD和行为障碍的后期问题的代理变量。 智力、学习技能和社会/情绪调节的测量 被选为标准变量，而其他措施（例如，电流 母亲的智力和情感功能水平） 作为附加预测变量。 所有收集到的数据 在三岁和五岁的时候， 已经在怀孕和婴儿期收集，特别是产妇和 婴儿评估 母婴功能的连续性 将对这些领域进行评估，并将评估孕产妇和儿童之间的关系。 从横截面和纵向两个方面进行了研究 视角 中心重点是追踪和预测儿童的 智力，情感和社会发展的基础上，孕产妇，儿童， 社会环境特征。 次要利益在于 了解产妇的发展，并在相互关联的孕产妇和儿童 发展 虽然将对数据进行横截面分析， 主要重点将放在数据的纵向方面。 分层线性模型（HLM）将用于研究平均值 样本随时间的个体内变化以及个体间变化 变化的差异。 HLM将允许研究静态和动态 发展轨迹的相关性。 项目的意义 在于试图以一种 精心挑选的青少年母亲及其子女的样本，从 多变量、前瞻性、纵向设计的视角。

DESCRIPTION (Adapted From The Applicant's Abstract) Children of teenaged mothers are at risk for one or more of the following disabilities: (1) mild mental retardation (MR); (2) learning disabilities (LD); or (3) conduct disorders. The goal of the proposed research is to understand the unique and common factors that precipitate various school-related delays. Salient characteristics in adolescent mothers, subsequent to and following delivery, will be identified. In combination with infant and child characteristics. They will be used to predict development during the preschool years, thus setting the stage for identifiable delays during the elementary school years. A secondary purpose of the research is to examine the life course of adolescent mothers, particularly in their socioemotional and intellectual development. Teen mothers with borderline IQs are likely themselves to slide into mild retardation and to encounter major life stresses as they progress through adolescence into young adulthood. Measures of maternal and child functioning for 150 days will be taken when each child is three and again at 5 years of age, with a focus on gathering proxy variables for later problems in MR, LD, and behavioral disorders. Measures of intelligence, learning skills, and social/emotional adjustment were selected as criterion variables, whereas other measures (e.g., current levels of intellectual and emotional functioning in the mother) were selected as additional predictor variables. All of the measures gathered at ages three and five will be considered within the context of data already gathered during pregnancy and infancy, specifically maternal and infant assessments. Continuity of functioning within maternal and child domains will be assessed and relationships between maternal and child measures examined from both cross-sectional as well as longitudinal perspectives. The central focus is on tracing and predicting children's intellectual, emotional, and social development based on maternal, child, and social-environmental characteristics. Secondary interests lie in understanding maternal development and in interrelating maternal and child development. Although cross-sectional analyses of the data will be carried out, the primary focus will be on the longitudinal aspects of the data. Hierarchical linear modeling (HLM), will be used to study average intraindividual changes in the sample over time as well as interindividual differences in change. HLM will allow study of both static and dynamic correlates of developmental trajectories. The significance of the project lies in the attempt to unravel the "new morbidity" phenomenon in a carefully-chosen sample of adolescent mothers and their children, from the perspective of a multivariate, prospective, longitudinal design.