MOTHER-INFANT REGULATION: DEPRESSION AND ATTACHMENT

互动调节和自我调节的研究往往相互排斥。然而，每个人都必须监督伴侣并调节内心状态。因此，自我监管和互动监管的整合是必不可少的。在这个提议中，我们建立在之前关于互动监管的工作基础上，并增加了自我监管。在之前对正常母婴面对面交流样本的研究中，连续的互动调节，从高偶然（警惕）到低偶然（退缩），预测了1年的依恋结果，中间是最优的。我们现在假设在自我和互动调节中都有一个中等最佳，并将这些概念应用于自我报告的母亲抑郁症状（CES-D）和婴儿依恋。为了分离这两个同时发生的过程，使用了时间序列方法进行自调节和交互调节。完成数据收集：对135对母婴在4个月时的面对面互动进行录像和录音；90人已返回，为期12个月。资金只要求编码和分析，使用声音和动态变量。如果目前的项目复制了我们之前正常研究的预测能力，我们的自动化声乐仪器将有助于在4个月时发现互动障碍。如果根据病理类型（抑郁/依恋类型），自我困难和互动困难的相对显著性有所不同，那么将这一基础研究转化为临床干预（目前正在通过录像带指导进行）可以更精确地集中。

Studies of interactive regulation and self regulation have tended to exclude each other. However, each person must both monitor the partner and regulate inner state. Thus integration of self and interactive regulation is essential. In this proposal we build on previous work on interactive regulation and add self regulation. In previous work on face-to-face communication in a normal mother-infant sample, a continuum of interactive regulation, ranging from high contingent (vigilant) to low contingent (withdrawn), predicted 1 year attachment outcomes, with midrange optimum. We now hypothesize a midrange optimum in both self- and interactive regulation, and apply these concepts to self-report maternal depressive symptoms (CES-D) and to infant attachment. To disembed the two simultaneous processes, time-series approaches to self- and interactive regulation are used. Data collection is completed: 135 mother-infant dyads have been videotaped and audiotaped in face-to-face interaction at 4 months; 90 have returned for 12 month attachment. Funds are requested for coding and analysis only, using both vocal and kinesic variables. If the current project replicates the predictive power of our previous normal study, our automated vocal instrument will facilitate the detection of interaction disorders at 4 months. If the relative salience of self vs interactive difficulties differs according to kind of pathology (depression/attachment type), translation of this basic research into clinical intervention (currently in progress via videotape coaching) could be more finely focused.