MAINTENANCE OF CLOSE DYADIC RELATIONSHIPS

这是一个研究科学家奖的竞争性更新申请。 纵向研究由两个主题描述：l）婚姻如何改变， 这将涉及到模拟婚姻解体的途径， 疾病和免疫抑制; 2）婚姻不和转移到 儿童，这将涉及三元的数学建模 互动（母亲-父亲-婴儿），质量的预测 从新婚夫妇的婚姻互动的养育，和预测的儿童 情绪调节能力和儿童结局。 父母的“Meta- 情绪”结构被假定为主要的干预变量， 婚姻过程、亲子过程和子女结果。 儿童的认知和情感发展将被研究， 开发. 在时间点1，研究对象是120对新婚夫妇 使用多种方法收集生理数据， 与互动的行为编码和持续的自我同步， 报告测量感知的影响;访谈和问卷数据， 也收藏了。 根据观察编码和问卷调查数据， 其中50对夫妇被确定为沿着一个连续的婚姻风险， 解散（基于以前的研究）和这50对夫妇 参加了一个24小时的公寓实验室， 获得了自主神经、内分泌和免疫学数据， 持续记录婚姻互动。 所有120对夫妇 在向父母身份过渡的过程中， 怀孕期间的婚姻和其他评估以及婚姻和 亲子互动（和生理学）当婴儿3个月大时， 在Fivaz程序之后。 孩子们在成长过程中会被跟踪 (as在候选人以前的研究中），其中儿童结果包括 同伴社会能力，行为问题（如父母和 教师），孩子的学业成绩（控制智商）和健康。

This is a competitive renewal application for a Research Scientist Award. Longitudinal research is described by 2 themes: l) How marriages change, which will involve modeling pathways to marital dissolution and to illness and immunosuppression; and 2) the transfer of marital discord to children, which will involve the mathematical modeling of triadic interaction (mother-father-baby), the prediction of the quality of parenting from newlywed marital interaction, and the prediction of child emotion regulation abilities and child outcome. The parents' "meta- emotion" structure is posited as the major intervening variable in marital processes, parent-child processes, and child outcomes. Children's cognitive and emotional development will be studied as they develop. At Time-1 the marriages of 120 newlywed couples were studied using a multimethod approach that collected physiological data synchronized with behavioral coding of interaction and a continuous self- report measure of perceived affect; interview and questionnaire data were also collected. Based on observational coding and questionnaire data, 50 of these couples were identified along a continuum of risk for marital dissolution (based on previous research) and these 50 couples participated in a 24-hour stay in an apartment laboratory in which autonomic, endocrine and immunological data were obtained as well as continuous recording of the marital interaction. All 120 couples are being followed through the transition to parenthood, which includes marital and other assessments during the pregnancy period and marital and parent-child interaction (and physiology) when the baby is 3 months old, following the Fivaz procedure. Children will be followed as they develop (as in previous studies by the candidate) in which child outcomes include peer social competence, behavior problems (as seen by parents and teacher), child academic achievement (controlling IQ), and health.