CHILD AND FAMILY ADAPTATION FOLLOWING JOB LOSS

失业后儿童和家庭的适应

• 批准号: 6041520
• 负责人: GEORGE W HOWE
• 金额: $ 62.36万
• 依托单位: GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2000
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2000-05-01 至 2005-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/6041520
• 关键词: adolescence (12-20); behavioral /social science research tag; child behavior disorders; clinical research; cooperative study; coping; disease /disorder proneness /risk; emotional adjustment; employment /unemployment; family structure /dynamics; human subject; interview; longitudinal human study; middle childhood (6-11); parent offspring interaction; psychological adaptation; psychological stressor

This proposed collaborative research project (collaborative R-01 ) is the next step in a coordinated program of research on the prevention of emotional and behavioral disorders in children and families experiencing job loss. Pursued by investigators at the Center for Family Research at the George Washington University and the Prevention Intervention, Research Center at Arizona State University, the proposed project brings together unique scientific resources from each research team that, when combined, will allow us to conduct a multisite study of risk and protective processes influencing adjustment children experiencing parental job loss, a study that could not be achieved by either team alone. These teams, strengthened also by direct involvement of investigators from the University of Michigan Prevention Research Center and the Johns Hopkins University Prevention Research Center, have developed a strong collaboration that includes The development of a shared conceptual framework, the integration of measurement strategies from all four centers, and collaborative planning of data analysis and hypothesis testing. The aim of the proposed study is to test a transactional theory of risk and protective process concerning the links between parental job loss, subsequent stressful events and difficulties, parent-child interaction, patterns of child coping, and child trajectories of internalizing and externalizing symptoms, impairment, school competence, and competence in peer relations. This theory is designed to help us understand which child are most at risk as a result of parental job loss, and to identify specific child and family adaptation mechanisms that increase or decrease risk for the development of behavioral and emotional problems. We propose to identify and study children aged 9-12 coming from 300 families living in the greater urban/suburban Baltimore region. We will identify families through state unemployment agencies, and interview mothers, fathers, and one index child in the home within one to four months after job loss. We will collect observational data on parent-child interactions around coping issues, and will use recently developed methods for assessing challenges and stressors. Families will provide data on child symptoms, impairment, and competence every six months, and will be interviewed about stressful events and difficulties one year after enrollment. This multiwave dataset will be analyzed using time-sensitive methods such as latent growth curve modeling, to test a series of hypotheses concerning risk and child adaptation in the face of parental job loss.

这项拟议的协作研究项目(协作R-01) 是预防艾滋病的协调研究计划的下一步 经历工作的儿童和家庭的情绪和行为障碍 损失。被乔治大学家庭研究中心的调查人员追查 华盛顿大学和预防干预研究中心 亚利桑那州立大学，拟议的项目汇集了独特的 来自每个研究团队的科学资源，当结合在一起时，将使我们 对影响风险和保护过程的风险进行多点研究 适应父母失业的孩子，一项不可能的研究 由任何一支球队单独完成。这些团队，也通过直接 密歇根大学预防研究人员的参与 研究中心和约翰霍普金斯大学预防研究中心， 已经发展了强大的协作，包括开发共享的 概念性框架，整合了所有四个方面的衡量策略 数据分析和假设检验的协作规划。 拟议研究的目的是测试风险和风险的交易理论 关于父母失去工作、随后的 应激事件和困难、亲子互动、儿童的模式 应对，以及儿童内化和外化症状的轨迹， 障碍、学校能力和同伴关系能力。这一理论是 旨在帮助我们了解哪些儿童最有可能因 父母失业，并确定具体的儿童和家庭适应情况 增加或降低行为和精神疾病发展风险的机制 情绪问题。我们建议识别和研究9-12岁的儿童 来自生活在巴尔的摩大城市/郊区的300个家庭。我们 将通过州失业机构确定家庭，并进行面谈 母亲、父亲和一个索引孩子在一到四个月内在家中 在失业之后。我们将收集亲子互动的观测数据 围绕应对问题，并将使用最近开发的方法来评估 挑战和压力源。家庭将提供有关儿童症状的数据， 每六个月一次的损害和能力，并将就 入学一年后的紧张事件和困难。这一多波 数据集将使用时间敏感型方法进行分析，例如潜在增长 曲线建模，以检验一系列关于风险和儿童的假设 在面对父母失业时的适应。