CHILD MENTAL HEALTH IN ALTERNATIVE FAMILY STYLES

拟议的工作将继续对200名儿童进行纵向研究， 在各种家庭形式中抚养的家庭;单亲家庭 家庭，未婚夫妇家庭，生活群体，作为对照组， 双亲核心传统家庭。 儿童评估自 出生，目前6岁。 在这一点上，他们的认知，社会 情绪发展是通过一系列标准化的 和半标准化测试，以及通过儿童访谈。 变量 特别感兴趣的是智力水平，语言能力，创造力， 坚持，对挫折的容忍，幻想的自由，独立，社会 认知能力和性别角色认同。 此外，这些评级 和其他性格特征是在一个 由两名独立的临床观察员进行的半结构化游戏会话。 还对父母进行智力和性格方面的评估。 在 此外，重新评估他们的观点和价值观的维度， 已经确定与替代哲学是获得。 深度 对每一位家长的单独访谈提供了有关养育子女做法的数据 以及孩子入学时的态度。 分析战略将继续致力于减少大规模的 从离散项目到汇总变量的主体;以及 父母态度社会化与儿童结果之间的相互关系 变量 行为和时间的连续性研究 家庭行为和儿童发展也在进行中。

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.