Early Childhood Education: Effects on Adult Adaptation

幼儿教育：对成人适应的影响

• 批准号: 6876569
• 负责人: FRANCES A. CAMPBELL
• 金额: $ 25.17万
• 依托单位: UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2003
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2003-04-01 至 2008-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/6876569
• 关键词: academic achievement; adult human (21+); behavioral /social science research tag; career; child behavior; clinical research; data collection methodology /evaluation; education; education evaluation /planning; employment /unemployment; functional ability; human subject; interview; longitudinal human study; low socioeconomic status; mental health; outcomes research; preschool child (1-5); quality of life; questionnaires; social adjustment; social behavior; social psychology; socioeconomics; student dropouts; training level

This study is to examine the long-term effects of early childhood education on the adult adaptation of persons born into low-income families and to identify factors associated with successful outcomes in their adult lives, particularly in relation to early childhood educational intervention. The proposal is to follow up two samples of individuals enrolled as infants in one of two prospective randomized trials of early childhood education for children at risk for school failure: The Abecedarian Project and Project CARE. The combined samples are 96% African American. For this follow-up, ages of the target persons will range from 28-30; a life stage where they are expected to have completed formal education and be establishing careers and families. Mediators of early childhood effects on adult functioning and the role of risk and protective factors will also be explored. Extant data sets cover the infancy, early childhood, and adolescence of the samples. Participants in both studies have been followed through age 12. For the Abecedarian study only, data were also collected at age 15 and 21 years. Significant educational and academic benefits related to early intervention were still seen for the latter in young adulthood but it was too early in their lives fully to describe the range of adult adaptation they would display. Including the CARE participants in this research on adult competence and adaptation will expand the number of cases enough to permit a more reliable estimate of the long-term effects of intensive early childhood education aswell as the testing of complex predictive models describing long-term development. New data to be collected here will describe adult adaptation in terms of educational levels, vocational success and economic circumstances, and socioemotional adjustment including mental health, psychological well-being, relationships with significant others, parenthood, and constructive life styles. Mediators of treatment effects on adult competence may include early cognitive development, academic progress, childhood behavioral adjustment, prior educational attainment, and the sense of mastery developed. Risk and protective factors may include parental characteristics (e.g., mental health), the quality of the early home environment, family stability in childhood, current stress, perceived social support, and experiences of racism. Procedures will include structured interviews, self-completed psychological scales and inventories, and a public records search.

本研究旨在研究早期儿童教育对低收入家庭成人适应的长期影响，并确定与他们成年生活成功结果相关的因素，特别是与早期儿童教育干预有关的因素。该建议是对两个婴儿样本进行随访，这些样本是在两个前瞻性随机试验中的一个中登记的，这些试验是针对有学业失败风险的儿童的早期儿童教育：初学者项目和CARE项目。合并后的样本中96%是非裔美国人。本次随访的目标人群年龄在28-30岁之间；在这个人生阶段，他们应该完成正规教育，开始建立自己的职业生涯