AFFECTIVE ATTITUDES--MOTHERS OF CLINIC REFERRED CHILDREN

大量的文献表明，研究父母如何 对他们成年子女的感觉--他们的情感态度--可以 丰富我们对成人精神病理学及其课程的理解。 例如，父母对情绪过度介入的批评 态度是康复者复发的已知危险因素 精神病患者(Vaughn&Lef，1976；Hooley，Oriey& Teasdale，1986)。现在有早期证据(例如，Stubbe et 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。表达情感(EE) 是使用最广泛的情感态度衡量标准 在关于家庭环境的研究中，它与 精神变态学。这项工作的大部分是在成人身上进行的 人口。评估母体胚胎发育不良的潜力以丰富我们的 对儿童精神病理学的理解，提出研究目标 评估其与关键的儿童和家庭变量的关系 (1)症状模式(2)母亲的精神病理，(3)父母- 儿童互动，(4)儿童自己的EE和(5)人口统计学 特征，使用临床转诊的儿童样本和 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 为了这个项目。孩子和他们的母亲将被管理 结构化的诊断性访谈、标准问卷、 情感态度的标准化语音样本测量，以及 将参与冲突交互任务。结构性 方程建模将被用来测试一个整体模型 情感态度以及调解人、主持人和 模型的特定组件。这项研究是一个初步的 在临床上进一步研究EE和儿童结局 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.