Prebirth predictors of early coparenting

描述（由申请人提供）：James P. McHale的修订提案寻求NICHD的独立科学家奖（KO2）。拟议的RCA的总体目标是将候选人从教学和行政职责中解放出来，投入几乎全部时间继续并进一步发展他对早期共同养育和婴儿发展的方案研究。这项工作反映了社会化理论的一个重要转变，在1990年代中期之前，社会化理论忽视了家庭群体一级的组织。然而，最近的工作文件，coparenting过程中形成的早期家庭的形成，随着时间的推移，显示出显着的稳定性，并显示与儿童的社会和情绪调整的前瞻性关系。然而，很少有人知道的决定因素的coparenting和家庭层面的动态，包括婴儿对发展coparental系统的影响。尽管重复的研究记录了共同父母的对抗和缺乏相互性导致儿童冲动控制，攻击和焦虑的问题，但利用这一知识的干预研究尚未出现。这RCA将提供一个背景下，5年的方案工作嵌套在一个正在进行的研究议程的演变和作用的共同育儿联盟，促进婴儿和儿童的调整和心理健康。工作包括一个目前活跃的RO1研究的过渡到coparenthood和第二个最近完成的研究coparenting从婴儿期到toddlerhood.The RCA将加强追求一个全面的模型记录时coparental不和谐是促进增长，当它是增长stultifying儿童。它还将允许候选人发展新的评估和分析技能，以有希望的新方式处理数据，扩大婴儿对早期家庭动态的贡献的概念化。体制环境是强有力的支持。职业发展活动，更详细地概述了在这个重新提交，包括：深入学习微观分析和有关转化研究与领先的专家，以及纵向分析和先进的统计建模课程。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This revised proposal from James P. McHale seeks an Independent Scientist Award (KO2) from the NICHD. The overall aim of the proposed RCA is to free the candidate from teaching and administrative duties to devote nearly full time to continue and develop further his programmatic research on early coparenting and infant development. This work has reflected an important shift in socialization theory, which prior to the mid 1990s neglected family group level organization. However, recent work documents that coparenting processes take shape during early family formation, show marked stability over time, and show prospective relations with children's social and emotional adjustment. Yet little is known about determinants of coparenting and family level dynamics, including infant effects on the developing coparental system. And despite replicated research documenting that coparental antagonism and lack of mutuality lead to child problems with impulse control, aggression, and anxiety, intervention studies capitalizing on this knowledge are not yet on the horizon. This RCA would provide a context for 5 years of programmatic work nested within an ongoing research agenda on the evolution and role of coparenting alliances in promoting infant and child adjustment and mental health. Work includes a currently active RO1 study of the transition to coparenthood and a second recently completed study of coparenting from infancy to toddlerhood.The RCA would enhance pursuit of a comprehensive model documenting when coparental dissonance is growth promoting and when it is growth stultifying for children. It would also permit the candidate to develop new evaluation and analytic skills to address data in promising new ways that expand conceptualizations of infant contributions to early family dynamics. Institutional environment is strongly supportive. Career development activities, outlined in greater detail in this resubmission, include: intensive learning about microanalysis and about translational research with leading experts, and coursework in longitudinal analysis and advanced statistical modeling.