Using wearable technology to measure the real-world parent-child dynamics which underpin emotional resilience

到目前为止，情绪韧性被广泛认为是一种强烈预测不同诊断类别的长期心理健康结果的属性(Davydov等人，2010年)。然而，到目前为止，几乎所有的研究都将韧性视为不同个体的一种属性。然而，“没有男人[或女人]是一座孤岛，完全是一座孤岛”(Donne，1624)。儿童个体的韧性是通过他们与他人以及与周围环境的互动发展起来的。从历史上看，在家庭环境中记录大量自然的亲子互动数据是不可能的。正因为如此，我们对儿童的长期韧性如何受到早期儿童与父母之间关系的影响的了解令人惊讶地少之又少。如果获得这一奖学金，我将在沃斯博士和琼斯教授开创的新方法的基础上进一步发展，包括微型可穿戴麦克风、摄像头和生理压力监测器，婴儿和他们的父母可以在家里佩戴。我会用它来收集和分析大量的“家庭亲子互动数据”。我将第一次评估现实世界中的亲子互动动态如何预测孩子长期情绪韧性的发展。为了最大限度地提高学生的成本效益，这一博士学位将被整合为欧洲研究理事会和医学研究理事会分别授予我的拟议导师沃斯博士和琼斯教授的两个大型资助纵向项目的一部分。这将最大限度地提高该项目的成本效益，并使我能够接触到原本无法接触到的参与者群体。此外，该项目还将促进Ubel DTP中Ubel DTP中专门研究典型早期开发的BabyDev实验室和专门研究非典型早期开发的Birkbeck Bond实验室之间的数据和想法的交流。

Emotional resilience is, by now, widely recognised as an attribute that strongly predicts long-term mental health outcomes across diverse diagnostic categories (Davydov et al., 2010). However, almost all research thus far has treated resilience as a property of different individuals. Yet 'no man [or woman] is an island, entire of itself' (Donne, 1624). Resilience in an individual child develops through their interactions with other people, and with their environment. Historically, it has been impossible to record large volumes of naturalistic parent-child interaction data in home settings. Because of this, we understand surprisingly little about how a child's long term resilience is influenced by the mechanisms of the relationship between child and parent during early life. If awarded this studentship, I would further build on new methods pioneered by Dr Wass and Professor Jones, including miniaturised wearable microphones, cameras and physiological stress monitors that can be worn by infants and their parents in home settings. I would use this to collect and analyse large volumes of 'at-home parent-child interaction data'. I would assess, for the first time, how real-world parent child interaction dynamics predict the development of long-term emotional resilience in the child. In order to maximise the cost-effectiveness of this studentship, this PhD would be integrated as part of two large-scale funded longitudinal projects awarded by the European Research Council and Medical Research Council respectively to my proposed supervisors, Dr Wass and Professor Jones. This will maximise the cost-effectiveness of this project, and give me access to participant populations that I would not otherwise have access to. In addition, the project would also promote the exchange of data and ideas within the UBEL DTP between the BabyDev Lab at UEL, which specialises in understanding typical early development, and the BOND lab at Birkbeck, which specialises in atypical early development.