CHILD MENTAL HEALTH IN ALTERNATIVE FAMILY STYLES

拟议的工作将继续对200名儿童和 单亲家庭以不同的家庭方式抚养的家庭；单亲家庭 家庭、未婚夫妇家庭、生活团体，以及作为对照的团体， 双亲核心传统家庭。自那以后，对儿童进行了评估 出生，目前6岁。在这一点上，他们的认知，社会 情绪发展正在通过一系列标准化的 和半标准化测试，并通过儿童面谈。变量： 特别感兴趣的是智力水平、语言能力、创造力 坚持、对挫折的宽容、幻想的自由、独立、社交 认知能力和性别角色认同。此外，这些节目的收视率 和其他人格特征在每个孩子身上都是在 由两个独立的临床观察者进行半结构化游戏会议。 父母也在接受智力和个性方面的评估。在……里面 此外，对他们在哪些维度上的观点和价值观进行了重新评估 已经被认同为另类哲学的是获得的。水深 对每一位父母的单独采访提供了有关子女养育做法的数据 以及当孩子进入学校时的态度。 分析战略将继续以减少大的 从离散项目的主体到汇总变量；检查概念上的相关性 父母态度社会化与子女结局的相互关系 变量。行为和时间的一致性和连续性研究 家庭行为和儿童发展也在取得进展。

The proposed work will continue the longitudinal studies of 200 children and families who are being reared in a variety of family styles; single-parent families, unwed couple households, living groups, and as a comparison group, two-parent nuclear traditional families. Children have been assessed since birth, and currently are 6 years old. At this point, their cognitive, social and emotional development is being assessed through a battery of standardized and semi-standardized tests, and through a child interview. Variables of particular interest are intelligence level, linguistic competency, creativity, persistence, tolerance for frustration, freedom of fantasy, independence, social cognition competencies, and sex role identity. In addition, ratings on these and other personality characteristics are made on each child during a semi-structured play session by two independent clinical observers. Parents are also being assessed on intelligence and personality measures. In addition, a reassessment of their perspectives and values on dimensions which have been identified with the alternative philosophy is obtained. Depth interviews with each parent separately provide data on child-rearing practices and attitudes at this time when the child enters school. The analytic strategy will continue to be directed toward reducing the large body of discrete items to summary variables; and examining conceptually-relevant interrelationships between parent attitudinal socialization, and child outcome variables. Studies on behavioral and temporal consistencies and continuities in family behaviors and child development are also in progress.