MATERNAL SOCIAL RESPONSIVENESS TO DOWN SYNDROME CHILDREN

母亲对唐氏综合症儿童的社会反应

• 批准号: 3329720
• 负责人: MARGUERITE S BARRATT
• 金额: $ 8.15万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 1992
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1992-08-01 至 1995-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/3329720
• 关键词: Downs syndrome; behavior test; child behavior disorders; child psychology; cognition disorders; communication behavior; human subject; infant human (0-1 year); longitudinal human study; maternal behavior; mother child interaction; preschool child (1-5); questionnaires; social behavior; socioeconomics; statistics /biometry; videotape /videodisc

Down syndrome children generate fewer appropriate social signals and exhibit less responsiveness to their mothers' signals than do non-delayed children. Research suggests that in the absence of these potent elicitors of maternal response, many mothers of Down syndrome children adopt a controlling and directive interactive style. The proposed study seeks to determine whether this directiveness occurs at the expense of responsiveness thereby interfering with the development of Down syndrome children's interactive social skills. This proposal examines maternal responsiveness to children's social signals in mothers of Down syndrome children. As part of an ongoing project, videotapes have been collected of 50 Down syndrome and 50 mental age matched non-delayed children and their mothers when the children were between 10 and 29 months mental age. From this sample, Down syndrome children with a 10 to 17 month mental age (n=28) and their mental age matched non-delayed cohorts are being assessed longitudinally at two subsequent points. For the proposed study, behavioral microanalysis will be used to characterize attentional, vocal, and affective responsiveness in mothers of Down syndrome as compared with mothers of non-delayed children. The extent to which the developmental appropriateness of early maternal interactions influences the children's later performance and interactive behavior will then be examined. In addition, the effects of children's mental development, social responsiveness, and family SES on maternal responsiveness over time will also be examined. Using this longitudinal design, we will be able to evaluate whether differences between mothers of Down syndrome and non-delayed children represent adaptive behaviors that facilitate or maladaptive behaviors that inhibit a healthy social interchange.

唐氏综合症儿童产生的适当社交信号较少， 与非延迟儿童相比，他们对母亲信号的反应较差 孩子们。 研究表明，如果缺乏这些有效的 母亲反应的诱发因素，许多唐氏综合症儿童的母亲 采用控制性、指导性的交互方式。 拟议的研究 试图确定这种指导性是否以牺牲 反应能力从而干扰唐氏综合症的发展 孩子们的互动社交技能。 该提案审查了母亲对儿童社交活动的反应 唐氏综合症儿童母亲的信号。 作为正在进行的项目的一部分 项目收集了50个唐氏综合症和50个精神疾病的录像带 年龄匹配的非延误儿童及其母亲 心理年龄在 10 至 29 个月之间。 从这个样本来看，唐氏综合症 10至17个月心理年龄的儿童（n=28）及其心理年龄 匹配的非延迟队列正在两点进行纵向评估 后续点。 对于拟议的研究，行为微观分析将用于 描述母亲的注意力、声音和情感反应能力 与非发育迟缓儿童的母亲相比，唐氏综合症的发生率更高。 这 早期母亲的发育适宜程度 互动会影响孩子以后的表现和互动 然后将检查行为。 此外，儿童的影响 心理发展、社会反应能力和家庭社会经济地位对母亲的影响 随着时间的推移，响应能力也会受到检查。 利用这个纵向 设计后，我们将能够评估母亲之间是否存在差异 唐氏综合症和非迟缓儿童代表适应性行为 促进或抑制健康社会的适应不良行为 互换。