GENES, ENVIRONMENT, AND MATERNAL ADJUSTMENT

说明(摘自申请者摘要)：建议的研究目标 研究家庭过程与母亲适应之间的联系 遗传知情设计、行为遗传学分析和技术 评估家庭流程。这项研究将是第一次使用这一技术 测试任何连接家庭流程的综合模型的综合方法 为了心理健康。关于家庭系统的最新研究结果将是 以及行为遗传学的重大进展，用来开发一个模型 母亲的心理健康与(1)她稳定的心理特征有关 例如个性和气质，(2)她和她的关系 目前的家庭，包括她的婚姻和与孩子的关系 (3)丈夫的特点和与她的关系 孩子们。这项研究将使用一个基于总体的样本，其大小足以 提供足够的电力来对这款车型进行严格测试：瑞典双胞胎 注册表。这项研究将采用最先进的家庭过程测量方法 包括母子视频、父子视频和夫妻视频 家庭环境中的互动。这项研究将由一个研究小组在 三个网站：乔治华盛顿大学，卡罗林斯卡学院 斯德哥尔摩和隆德大学。分析模型将侧重于 描述(1)特定个体的、可遗传的特征 亲子关系和婚姻关系的差异；(二)如何 人际关系可能会调节精神病理学的遗传效应；以及 在每个姐妹的环境中的社会经历是独一无二的 (非共享)对她发展的一系列影响。

DESCRIPTION (Adapted from applicant's abstract): The proposed research aims to study the links between family process and maternal adjustment using a genetically-informed design, behavioral genetics analyses and techniques for assessing family process. This study will be the first to use this integrative approach to test any comprehensive model linking family process to mental health. Recent findings from research on family systems will be used, as well as major advances in behavioral genetics, to develop a model linking mother's mental health to (1) her stable psychological attributes such as personality and temperament, (2) to her relationship with her current family including her marriage and relationships with her children and (3) to characteristics of her husband and his relationship with her children. The study will use a population-based sample large enough to provide power adequate for a rigorous test of this model: The Swedish Twin Registry. The study will employ state-of-the-art measures of family process including video recording of mother-child, father-child, and marital interaction in the home setting. The study will be conducted by a team at three sites: George Washington University, Karolinska Institute in Stockholm and Lund University. Analytic models will focus on the delineation (1) of specific individual, heritable traits which elicit variations in parent-child and marital relationships; (2) of how relationships may mediate genetic effects on psychopathology; and (3) of social experiences in each sister's environment which are a unique (nonshared) set of influences on her development.