Maternal Mental-State Talk and Attachment-Peer Linkages

母亲的心理状态谈话和依恋同伴联系

• 批准号: 6902282
• 负责人: Nancy L McElwain
• 金额: $ 7.65万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA-CHAMPAIGN
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2005
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2005-05-01 至 2007-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/6902282
• 关键词: behavioral /social science research tag; child (0-11); child psychology; child rearing; clinical research; early experience; friendships; human data; interpersonal relations; mother child interaction; peer group; social perception

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The ability to establish and maintain close friendships is central to physical and mental health throughout the life course. The quality of the early child-mother attachment relationship is 1 factor that may forecast friendship competence during the preschool and school years. Little is known, however, about the interpersonal mechanisms through which children's attachment and friend relationships are related. This study aims to assess maternal mental-state talk as a potential mediator of attachment-friend linkages. Through talk about mental states, mothers may foster children's psychological understanding of behavior, which, in turn, has implications for effectively managing interpersonal interactions. Notably, child-mother attachment security and child-friend interactions have each been associated with mental-state talk, yet no single study has brought together these 2 lines of research. Thus, the specific aims of the proposed study are to examine: (a) maternal mental-state talk at 24 months as a function of infant-mother attachment at 15 months, (b) maternal mental-state talk at 24 months as a predictor of children's friendship competence at 36 months, 54 months, kindergarten, and first grade, and (c) maternal mental-state talk as a mediator of longitudinal attachmentfriend associations. In addressing these aims, data from the NICHD Study of Early Child Care (SECC) will be utilized. Given the relatively large sample, as well as the multiple and varied assessments of mother-child and child-friend relationships, the NICHD SECC provides a unique opportunity in which to test the proposed mediational model. Videotaped mother-child play sessions at 24 months will be transcribed and coded for maternal mental-state talk. Structural equation modeling will be conducted to assess the validity of the mediational model. Multigroup analyses will assess whether child gender moderates the proposed associations. In addition, several competing models will be tested. By illuminating the interpersonal processes through which children's early attachment relationships are related to their subsequent relationships with friends, researchers and clinicians will be better equipped to design and implement preventive interventions for children at risk for relationship disturbances.

描述（由申请人提供）：建立和维持亲密友谊的能力是整个生活过程中身心健康的核心。早期子女依恋关系的质量是1个因素，可以预测学龄前和学年期间的友谊能力。然而，关于儿童依恋和朋友关系相关的人际关系机制知之甚少。这项研究旨在评估孕产妇的心理状态谈话，作为依恋朋友联系的潜在调解人。通过谈论心理状态，母亲可能会促进儿童对行为的心理理解，这反过来又对有效管理人际交往有影响。值得注意的是，儿童母亲的依恋安全和儿童朋友互动都与精神状态谈话有关，但是没有一项研究汇集了这两条研究。因此，拟议研究的具体目的是检查：（a）在15个月时婴儿母亲的依恋的函数，在24个月时，（b）24个月的母亲依恋的函数，作为对儿童友谊能力的预测，以预测36个月，54个月的儿童友谊能力，幼儿园，幼儿园，一年级，以及（c）孕产妇的陪同。在解决这些目标时，将利用来自NICHD早期保健（SECC）的数据。鉴于样本相对较大，以及对母子和儿童关系关系的多个和多样化的评估，NICHD SECC提供了一个独特的机会，可以在其中测试拟议的中介模型。 24个月时的录像带录像带将被转录并编码为母亲的智种谈话。将进行结构方程建模，以评估中介模型的有效性。多组分析将评估儿童性别是否适应拟议的关联。此外，将测试几种竞争模型。通过阐明儿童早期依恋关系与他们与朋友，研究人员和临床医生的随后关系有关的人际交往过程，将更好地设计和实施面临关系扰动风险的儿童的预防干预措施。