PRECURSORS OF RETARDATION IN CHILDREN WITH TEEN MOTHERS

描述(改编自申请者摘要)青少年子女 母亲有患以下一种或多种残疾的风险：(1) 轻度精神发育迟滞；(2)学习障碍；或(3) 品行障碍。拟议研究的目标是了解 导致各种与学校有关的延误的独特和共同的因素。 青春期母亲的显著特征 送货，将会被确认。与婴幼儿相结合 特点。它们将被用来预测 学龄前几年，从而为可识别的延误奠定了基础 上小学的时候。这项研究的次要目的是检查 青春期母亲的生命历程，特别是在她们的社会情感方面 和智力发展。智商接近边缘的青少年母亲很可能 他们自己滑入轻度迟缓，并遇到重大生活 在他们从青春期到青壮年的过程中，他们会感到压力。 将在下列情况下采取150天的孕产妇和儿童功能措施 每个孩子都是3岁，5岁时又是如此，重点是聚集 MR、LD和行为障碍的后继问题的替代变量。 测量智力、学习技能和社交/情绪适应能力 被选为标准变量，而其他度量(例如，电流 母亲的智力和情感功能水平) 被选为其他预测变量。所有措施都汇集在一起 三岁和五岁将在数据的背景下被考虑 已在孕期和婴儿期收集，特别是母体和 婴儿评估。孕产妇和儿童内部功能的连续性 将评估领域以及母婴之间的关系 从横向和纵向两方面考察的措施 透视。中心的重点是跟踪和预测儿童的 智力、情感和社会发展基于母亲、儿童、 和社会环境特征。次要利益在于 了解产妇的发展和母婴的相互关系 发展。 虽然将对数据进行横断面分析，但 主要焦点将放在数据的纵向方面。 分层线性建模(HLM)，将用于研究平均值 样本中个体内随时间和个体间的变化 变化中的差异。HLM将允许研究静态和动态 发展轨迹的关联性。该项目的意义 在于试图揭开一种新的病态现象 精心挑选的青春期母亲及其子女样本，来自 多变量、前瞻性、纵向设计的视角。

DESCRIPTION (Adapted From The Applicant's Abstract) Children of teenaged mothers are at risk for one or more of the following disabilities: (1) mild mental retardation (MR); (2) learning disabilities (LD); or (3) conduct disorders. The goal of the proposed research is to understand the unique and common factors that precipitate various school-related delays. Salient characteristics in adolescent mothers, subsequent to and following delivery, will be identified. In combination with infant and child characteristics. They will be used to predict development during the preschool years, thus setting the stage for identifiable delays during the elementary school years. A secondary purpose of the research is to examine the life course of adolescent mothers, particularly in their socioemotional and intellectual development. Teen mothers with borderline IQs are likely themselves to slide into mild retardation and to encounter major life stresses as they progress through adolescence into young adulthood. Measures of maternal and child functioning for 150 days will be taken when each child is three and again at 5 years of age, with a focus on gathering proxy variables for later problems in MR, LD, and behavioral disorders. Measures of intelligence, learning skills, and social/emotional adjustment were selected as criterion variables, whereas other measures (e.g., current levels of intellectual and emotional functioning in the mother) were selected as additional predictor variables. All of the measures gathered at ages three and five will be considered within the context of data already gathered during pregnancy and infancy, specifically maternal and infant assessments. Continuity of functioning within maternal and child domains will be assessed and relationships between maternal and child measures examined from both cross-sectional as well as longitudinal perspectives. The central focus is on tracing and predicting children's intellectual, emotional, and social development based on maternal, child, and social-environmental characteristics. Secondary interests lie in understanding maternal development and in interrelating maternal and child development. Although cross-sectional analyses of the data will be carried out, the primary focus will be on the longitudinal aspects of the data. Hierarchical linear modeling (HLM), will be used to study average intraindividual changes in the sample over time as well as interindividual differences in change. HLM will allow study of both static and dynamic correlates of developmental trajectories. The significance of the project lies in the attempt to unravel the "new morbidity" phenomenon in a carefully-chosen sample of adolescent mothers and their children, from the perspective of a multivariate, prospective, longitudinal design.