AFFECTIVE ATTITUDES--MOTHERS OF CLINIC REFERRED CHILDREN

广泛的文献基础表明，研究父母 他们对成年子女的情感态度， 丰富了我们对成人精神病理学及其过程的理解。 例如，父母对孩子的批评情绪过于投入 态度是已知的风险因素复发之间恢复 精神病患者（vaughn & Leff，1976; Hooley，Oriey & Teasdale，1986）。现在有早期的证据（例如，斯图贝和 例如，1993年），研究情感态度也可以丰富我们的 对儿童精神病理学的理解情绪表达（EE） 是最广泛使用的情感态度的措施， 在家庭环境的研究中， 精神病理学这项工作的大部分已经进行了成人 人口。评估母体EE的潜力，以丰富我们的 儿童精神病理学的理解，t提出的研究目标 评估其与关键儿童和家庭变量的关系， (1)症状模式（2）母亲精神病理学，（3）父母- 儿童互动，（4）儿童自己的EE和（5）人口统计 特征，使用临床参考的儿童样本， 他们的母亲大约350名儿童和他们的母亲， 来自9个社区精神卫生诊所，将接受采访 本项目孩子和他们的母亲将被管理 结构化诊断访谈，标准问卷，a 情感态度的标准化语音样本测量，以及 将参与冲突互动任务。结构 方程建模将用于测试的整体模型， 情感态度以及调解人，主持人， 模型的具体组成部分。这项研究是一个初步的 进一步研究EE和儿童结局在临床 人口。

A broad base of literature has shown that studying how parents feel about their adult children--their affective attitudes--can enrich our understanding of adult psychopathology and its course. For example, parents' critical of emotional overinvolved attitudes are known risk factors for relapse among recovering psychiatric patients (vaughn & Leff, 1976; Hooley, Oriey & Teasdale, 1986). Now there Is early evidence (e.g., Stubbe et al., 1993) that studying affective attitudes may also enrich our understanding of child psychopathology. Expressed emotion (EE) is the most widely used measure of affective attitudes employed in research on the family environment as it relates to psychopathology. Most of this work has been conducted with adult populations. To assess the potential of maternal EE to enrich our understanding of child psychopathology, t proposed research aims to assess its relation to such key child and family variables as (1) symptom pattern (2) maternal psychopathology, (3) parent- child interactions, (4) children's own EE and (5) demographic characteristics, using a clinic-referred sample of children and their mothers. Approximately 350 children and their mothers, drawn from 9 community mental health clinics, will be interviewed for the project. Children ar their mothers will be administered structured diagnostic interviews, standard questionnaires, a standardized speech sample measure of affective attitudes, and will participate in a conflict interaction task. Structural equation modeling will be used to test an overall model of affective attitudes as well as mediators, moderators, and specific components of the model. This research is a preliminary step toward further studies on EE and child outcome In clinical populations.