PATHWAYS FROM CHILDHOOD ADVERSITY TO ADULT MENTAL HEALTH

从童年逆境到成年心理健康的途径

• 批准号: 2675428
• 负责人: Robert H Aseltine
• 金额: $ 1.67万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS BOSTON
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 1997
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1997-09-01 至 1998-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/2675428
• 关键词: behavioral /social science research tag; clinical research; developmental psychology; early experience; functional ability; human subject; longitudinal human study; mental health epidemiology; psychological adaptation; psychological stressor; young adult human (21-34)

DESCRIPTION (Adapted from applicant's abstract): This study seeks to investigate the intervening mechanisms linking childhood adversity with early adult mental health and social functioning, based on secondary analyses of a 10-year longitudinal study which ranges over the adolescent and early adult years. The proposed work will examine the extent to which early experiences compromise adult mental health by disrupting adolescent social relationships and psychological development, and by fostering unsuccessful transitions to and experiences in the major social roles signalling entry into adulthood. The first specific aim involves drawing upon 5 waves of panel data to clearly establish the relationships among early adversities, adolescent mental health and social development, successful entry into early adult roles, and early adult depression. By incorporating several assessments of experiences during the adolescent and early adult years, the proposed study addresses one of the major gaps in knowledge hampering virtually all previous investigations of these mechanisms and improves upon the measures available to investigators in prior studies. Second, the impact of early adversity on the timing, stability and quality of youths' transitions into and experiences in school and work roles, marriage and intimate relationships, and patenting, will be examined. Third, the proposed study will examine alternative specifications of the intervening processes tying early experiences to later life. The role of early childhood adversities in increasing vulnerability to the effects of subsequent stresses and transitions will be examined, as will the possibility that these early family experiences may set in motion developmental processes that reduce individuals' emotional reactivity to subsequent family problems. Analyses will be based upon 5 waves of existing panel data on a sample of 900 young adults aged 22-26. An additional wave of data collection for the entire sample is proposed, scheduled for 3 years following the final data collection for the existing project. Results will contribute to a greater understanding of the mechanisms through which stressful experience in childhood place individuals at risk for serious and persistent maladaptation, and more generally, to an understanding of the interdependence between individual predispositions and environmental stimuli in shaping development over significant periods of the life course.

描述（改编自申请人的摘要）：本研究旨在 调查童年逆境与 早期成人心理健康和社会功能，基于中学 对涵盖青少年的 10 年纵向研究进行分析 和成年早期。 拟议的工作将审查在多大程度上 早期经历会扰乱青少年，从而损害成人的心理健康 社会关系和心理发展，并通过培养 主要社会角色的不成功过渡和经历 标志着进入成年期。 第一个具体目标涉及绘画 根据 5 波面板数据来清晰地建立之间的关系 早期逆境、青少年心理健康和社会发展， 成功进入早期成年角色和早期成年抑郁症。 经过 纳入对青少年时期经历的多项评估 成年早期，拟议的研究解决了成年早期的主要差距之一 知识阻碍了几乎所有以前对这些问题的调查 机制并改进调查人员可用的措施 之前的研究。 其次，早期逆境对时机的影响， 青少年过渡到学校和在校经历的稳定性和质量 工作角色、婚姻和亲密关系以及专利，将 检查了。 第三，拟议的研究将审查替代规范 将早期经历与后来的生活联系起来的干预过程。 这 幼儿期逆境在增加脆弱性方面的作用 将检查随后的应力和转变的影响，以及 这些早期家庭经历可能会启动的可能性 降低个体情绪反应的发展过程 随后的家庭问题。 分析将基于样本的 5 波现有面板数据 900 名 22-26 岁的年轻人。 又一波数据收集 提议整个样本，计划在最终数据公布后 3 年内进行 现有项目的集合。 结果将有助于更大 了解压力经历的机制 童年使个人面临严重和持续的风险 适应不良，更一般地说，是对 个体倾向和环境刺激之间的相互依赖性 塑造生命历程中重要时期的发展。