Processes and parent engagement in Early Head Start

描述（由申请人提供）：该项目代表了一个新的调查路线，旨在了解未来的方向和其他相关的心理特征对参与者参与早期开端的影响。这样的理解可以提高早期开端计划的能力，以促进参与和计划的利用。为此，将研究参加早期开端方案的孕妇和母亲的心理特征（能动性、抑郁和关系态度）与未来取向水平的关系，以便预测时间（例如，出席、预约、会议持续时间）和方案参与的心理社会方面。该项目还需要参与者的教育/职业目标发展的探索在招生时，在未来的方向，并在有关程序参与后2个月和6个月入学。此外，虽然目前的研究涉及孕妇和母亲（构成EHS照顾者的大多数）的特征，但计划对参加Early Head Start的儿童的父亲和其他男性照顾者进行相同变量的平行研究。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This project represents a new line of inquiry aimed at understanding the influences of future orientation and other associated psychological characteristics on participant engagement in Early Head Start. Such an understanding could improve the capacity of Early Head Start programs to promote engagement and program utilization. To this end, the psychological characteristics (agency, depression, and relationship attitudes) of pregnant women and mothers enrolled in Early Head Start are to be studied in relation to level of future orientation, in order to predict temporal (e.g., attendance, keeping appointments, duration of meetings) and psychosocial aspects of program engagement. The project also entails an exploration of participant educational / occupational goal development at the time of enrollment in relation to future orientation, and in relation to program engagement at 2 and 6 months post enrollment. Also, while the current study addresses characteristics of pregnant women and mothers (who constitute the majority of EHS caregivers), a parallel study is planned of the same variables with fathers and other male caregivers of children enrolled in Early Head Start.