CHILD AND FAMILY ADAPTATION FOLLOWING JOB LOSS

失业后儿童和家庭的适应

• 批准号: 6704684
• 负责人: GEORGE W HOWE
• 金额: $ 1.28万
• 依托单位: GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2003
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2003-02-14 至 2005-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/6704684
• 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.

本建议的合作研究项目（合作R-01） 是一个协调的研究计划的下一步， 工作经历的儿童和家庭的情绪和行为障碍 损失乔治大学家庭研究中心的调查人员继续调查 华盛顿大学预防干预研究中心 亚利桑那州立大学，该项目的建议汇集了独特的 每个研究团队的科学资源，当结合起来， 进行风险和保护过程的多点研究， 适应儿童经历父母失业，一项研究，不能 这是任何一支球队单独完成的。这些团队还通过直接 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， 已经建立了一个强大的合作，其中包括开发一个共享的 概念框架，从所有四个测量策略的整合 中心，以及数据分析和假设检验的协作规划。 拟议研究的目的是检验风险的交易理论， 关于父母失业、随后的 压力事件与困难，亲子互动，儿童模式 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。这个理论是 旨在帮助我们了解哪些儿童由于 父母失业，并确定具体的儿童和家庭适应 增加或减少行为和行为发展风险的机制 情绪问题我们建议识别和研究9-12岁的儿童， 来自大城市/郊区巴尔的摩地区的300个家庭。我们 将通过州失业机构确定家庭， 母亲、父亲和一个索引儿童在家里一到四个月内 失业后。我们将收集关于亲子互动的观察数据 围绕应对问题，并将使用最近开发的评估方法， 挑战和压力。家庭将提供儿童症状的数据， 每六个月进行一次，并将接受有关 入学后一年的压力事件和困难。这种多波 数据集将使用时间敏感的方法进行分析，例如潜在增长 曲线模型，以测试一系列关于风险和儿童的假设， 面对父母失业的适应。