FAMILY TRANSFORMATION IN THE COURSE OF PARENTAL DIVORCE

父母离婚导致的家庭转变

• 批准号: 3376914
• 负责人: ABIGAIL J STEWART
• 金额: $ 9.07万
• 依托单位: BOSTON UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CAMPUS
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 1984
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1984-01-01 至 1986-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/3376914
• 关键词: academic achievement; angers; anxiety; child behavior; child rearing; child welfare; depression; divorce /separation; early experience; emotional adjustment; emotional dependency; family structure /dynamics; identity; mother deprivation; parent offspring interaction; peer group; psychological adaptation; social adjustment

We are seeking funding to transcribe, code, and analyze data from a study to how parental divorce affects children. One hundred and three families participated in 1981-82 within eight months of parental separation; these same families are being seen again during 1982-83, one year after their initial participation. Our premise has been that children's adjustment during this transition period can best be predicted by understanding the qualilty of their family system functioning; furthermore, we believe adjustment will change too. Accordingly, we have gathered information that will allow us to describe the family units at each of the two post-separation times in terms of (a) their ability to satisfy several primary functions of a family (i.e., provision of material resources, physical protection, cohesion, regularity, nurturance, and companionship), (b) their interaction patterns (i.e., role boundary ambiguity, triadic tension, and enmeshment), and (c) the psychological adjustment of other family members. Children's adjustment itself will be characterized in terms of behavior problems, emotional adjustment, peer relations, school performance, and physical health. In general, we presume that families that satisfy their primary functions, that are not characterized by pathogenic interaction patterns, and that include well-adjusted family members will have children who show fewer negative effects of the separation; these relationships should generally hold true at both post-separation periods. However, a corollary presumption is that some family and individual characteristics will be more important that others and that which ones are most important may change from one period to the next. Consequently, our approach to data analysis will be to assess relationships between predictors and outcomes at each time of assessment, then to examine the ways in which family system functioning has both concurrent and long-term effects on children's adjustment.

我们正在寻求资金来转录、编码和分析一项研究的数据 父母离婚对孩子的影响 一百零三个家庭 1981- 1982年，在父母分居后的8个月内， 同样的家庭在1982-83年再次出现，一年后， 初步参与。 我们的前提是孩子们的适应 在这个过渡时期，最好通过了解 家庭系统运作的质量;此外，我们认为， 调整也会发生变化。 因此，我们收集到的信息表明， 将允许我们描述两个家庭中的每一个 （a）它们满足若干要求的能力 家庭的主要功能（即，提供物质资源， 身体保护、凝聚力、规律性、养育和陪伴）， (b)它们的交互模式（即，角色边界模糊，三元 紧张，和enmeshment），和（c）心理调整的其他 家庭成员 儿童的适应性本身的特点是 行为问题、情绪调节、同伴关系、学校 性能和身体健康。 一般来说，我们假设家庭 满足其主要功能，而不是 致病性相互作用模式，包括良好的家庭适应 成员将有孩子谁显示较少的负面影响， 分离;这些关系通常应该在两个 离职后时期。 然而，一个推论是， 家庭和个人特征将比其他人更重要 哪些是最重要的，可能会从一个时期到另一个时期发生变化。 下一个 因此，我们的数据分析方法将是评估 在每次评估时预测因素和结果之间的关系， 然后研究家庭系统的运作方式， 对儿童适应能力的影响。