COMMUNICATION OF AFFECT WITH "ABUSE-ELICITING" CHILDREN

与“引发虐待”的儿童进行情感交流

• 批准号: 3377047
• 负责人: DAPHNE BUGENTAL
• 金额: $ 14.67万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SANTA BARBARA
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 1984
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1984-05-01 至 1990-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/3377047
• 关键词: arousal; attribution; behavior test; child abuse; child behavior; communication behavior; coping; family structure /dynamics; interpersonal relations; locus of control; parent offspring interaction; performance; psychological models; psychological stressor; videotape /videodisc; voice

The proposed research extends a transactional model of family interaction to include an integrative analysis of mediating processes. Our ongoing research has focused upon child elicitors and attributional moderators of caregiver affect and behavior in physically abusive caregiving systems. In a refinement of the model, characteristics of abused children are conceptualized as potential stressors. Adults with low perceived control over caregiving outcomes are predicted to show an emotional coping style and elevated arousal in response to abused children (and behaviors more common for them than non-abused children); this adult response pattern is in turn expected to lead to negative affect, performance deterioration, and elevated arousal in the child. Conversely, adults with high perceived control over caregiving outcomes are predicted to show problem-focused, cognitively-oriented coping (and low arousal) in response to abused children; this adult response pattern is in turn expected to elicit more positive affect, higher performance levels, and lower arousal levels in the child. The data base will be drawn from both (a) laboratory analog studies which introduce variables simulating the characteristics of abusive family systems, and (b) interactions within actual abusive families. In Study 1, 120 mothers will be shown videotapes of abused children or their non-abused siblings, and will then engage in simulated interaction with them (teaching the child a video game). Continuous records will be made of their affect (facial actions and voice prosodics), spontaneous cognitions, teaching strategies, and physiological responses (heart rate, pulse transit time, blood pressure, and skin conductance). In Study 2, 120 children will attempt to learn a video game in response to videotapes of adults and teaching strategies used by adults in Study 1. Continuous records will be made of their affect, arousal, and performance levels in response to variations in "teacher" inputs. In Study 3, the voice characteristics of parents in abusive families (obtained in ongoing research) as well as related adults in actual or simulated interaction with abused children will be subjected to acoustical analysis. This analysis will allow us to determine the relation between acoustical features and measures of affect and arousal.

该研究扩展了家庭的交易模型 互动，包括调解的综合分析 流程. 我们正在进行的研究集中在儿童诱导者 照顾者的影响和行为的归因调节因子 身体虐待系统。 在一个改进的 模式，受虐待儿童的特征被概念化为 潜在的压力源 低感知控制力的成年人 预测的结果表明，情绪应对 风格和提高唤醒响应虐待儿童（和 比未受虐待的儿童更常见的行为;这 成年人的反应模式反过来又会导致消极的 影响，表现恶化，以及在 孩子相反地，对自我控制感强的成年人， 预测的结果表明， 认知导向的应对（和低唤醒）， 受虐待的儿童;这种成人的反应模式反过来预计， 引发更多的积极影响，更高的绩效水平，更低的 孩子的兴奋程度 数据库将从这两个 (a)引入变量模拟的实验室模拟研究 虐待性家庭系统的特征;（B）相互作用 真正的虐待家庭。 在第一项研究中，120名母亲将观看虐待的录像带， 儿童或其未受虐待的兄弟姐妹，然后将从事 模拟与他们的互动（教孩子一个视频 游戏）。 连续记录他们的情绪（面部 动作和语音韵律），自发认知，教学 策略和生理反应（心率、脉搏传导 时间、血压和皮肤电导）。 在研究2中，120 孩子们会尝试学习视频游戏， 成人录像带和成人使用的教学策略， 研究1. 他们的情绪，兴奋程度， 和表现水平的变化，“教师” 输入。 在研究3中，父母在虐待的声音特征， 家庭（在正在进行的研究中获得）以及相关的成年人， 与受虐待儿童的实际或模拟互动将是 进行声学分析。 分析将使我们能够 确定声学特征和测量之间的关系 情感和性唤起