Infant Emotion Regulation: Biological Influences

婴儿情绪调节：生物影响

• 批准号: 6939409
• 负责人: ASHLEY L HILL-Soderlund
• 金额: $ 4.4万
• 依托单位: UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL
• 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/6939409
• 关键词: age difference; behavioral /social science research tag; caregivers; child psychology; clinical research; disease /disorder proneness /risk; emotions; human subject; infant human (0-1 year); longitudinal human study; mental disorder diagnosis; mental health epidemiology; mother child interaction; postdoctoral investigator; social behavior

Recent research in the area of infant mental health has consistently found that children who experience difficulties in the regulation of emotion are more likely to experience problems in social relationships and thus, are more prone to the development of psychopathology. However, many questions remain concerning the mechanisms, especially biological and caregiver influences that may be implicated in the development of adaptive versus maladaptive emotion regulation. The proposed longitudinal study is guided by a multi-level model of development of emotion regulation that incorporates both intrinsic (biological) and extrinsic (caregiver) influences and hypothesizes that these factors interact to predict both infant emotion regulation and subsequent socioemotional functioning. Thus, the specific goal of this proposal is to examine relations among physiological and emotion regulation in infants, physiological regulation and early attachment behaviors in mothers, and attachment security in mother-infant dyads. Bidirectional and dynamic interactions between mothers and infants will be investigated at 3, 6, and 12- months of age during challenging social situations. The study will yield important information on the complex transactions between infants and caregivers across the first year of life, with the long-term goal of identifying specific behaviors that could be targeted in an intervention program for mothers with high-risk infants.

最近在婴儿心理健康领域的研究一直发现，情绪调节困难的儿童更有可能在社会关系中遇到问题，因此更容易发展成精神病态。然而，许多问题仍然存在，关于机制，特别是生物学和照顾者的影响，可能涉及到适应性情绪调节与非适应性情绪调节的发展。这项纵向研究以情绪调节发展的多层次模型为指导，该模型结合了内在(生物学)和外在(照顾者)的影响，并假设这些因素相互作用，预测婴儿的情绪调节和随后的社会情绪功能。因此，本研究的具体目标是考察婴儿的生理和情绪调节、母亲的生理调节和早期依恋行为以及母婴双方的依恋安全感之间的关系。母亲和婴儿之间的双向和动态互动将在3个月、6个月和12个月大的具有挑战性的社会环境中进行调查。这项研究将提供有关婴儿和照顾者在出生第一年期间的复杂交易的重要信息，长期目标是确定可以在针对高危婴儿母亲的干预计划中针对的具体行为。