Mutual Regulatory Processes in Black Mother-Infant Dyads

黑人母婴二人组的相互调节过程

• 批准号: 7097021
• 负责人: MARJORIE J BEEGHLY
• 金额: $ 24.55万
• 依托单位: BOSTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2006
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2006-07-15 至 2008-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7097021
• 关键词: African American; behavioral /social science research tag; child behavior; child psychology; clinical research; cognition; coping; data collection methodology /evaluation; emotions; family structure /dynamics; human data; language development; longitudinal human study; mother child interaction; play; preschool child (1-5); problem solving; psychological adaptation; social behavior; social model; social support network; socioeconomics

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The primary goal of this revised grant is to increase our understanding of the socio-emotional development of young children of African heritage by carrying out secondary analyses on already-collected longitudinal data. Specifically, we propose to evaluate the mutual regulatory (MR) processes (i.e., synchrony, affect sharing or matching, reparation from uncoordinated to coordinated affective states, bi-directionality, and maternal regulatory responsiveness) that take place between 163 adult mothers of African heritage (African American or Black) varying in SES and their full-term healthy infants (50% female) at 12 and 18 months of age. Subjects were participants in a completed longitudinal study that was partially funded by the Spencer Foundation (M. Beeghly, PI) and partially by our own resources. Analyses in the present study will be based on videotapes made in two contrasting (structured and unstructured) interactive contexts at each age. The specific aims are to: 1] evaluate the relative stability of MR scores across context and age, and the effect of child gender, age, interactive context on MR processes; 2] evaluate the relation of MR variables to specific biologic and social contextual variables (difficult child temperament, maternal psychosocial adaptation, social support, family environment, SES), including specific variables identified as being especially relevant to Black families (i.e., variations in household composition, social support, and child rearing attitudes such as warmth versus strictness, and racial socialization), 3] evaluate whether MR variables assessed at 12 or 18 months are related to four domains of children's outcomes at 18 months (self-regulatory behavior observed during solitary play, attachment status, language skills, and general cognitive functioning), each of which have been linked with children's positive functioning in later childhood, and 4] evaluate whether MR variables at each age mediate the relation between contextual variables and child outcomes. Child and maternal affect and dyadic behavior will be coded micro-analytically from videotapes of mother-child interaction in each context at each age using a single scoring system, the Child Caregiver Mutual Regulation (CCMR) system. Time series analysis will be used to generate MR variables representing dyadic affect sharing, reparation, synchrony, and bi-directionality, and sequential data analytic techniques will be used to generate variables describing maternal regulatory responsiveness to child behavior. This study will be among the first to evaluate longitudinally multiple MR processes within a single-racial sample of Black mothers and healthy term infants varying in SES during the second year of life. Findings will significantly increase our understanding of individual differences in the mother-child relationship in this cohort and will provide valuable information to inform and guide future research as well as the design of more effective prevention and intervention services for higher risk groups of Black mother-infant dyads and their families.

描述（由申请人提供）：这项修订的赠款的主要目标是通过对已经收集的纵向数据进行二次分析，以提高我们对非洲遗产幼儿社会情感发展的理解。具体而言，我们建议评估相互监管的过程（即同步，影响共享或匹配，从不协调的情感状态到协调的情感状态，双向方向性和孕产妇监管反应性），在非洲遗产（非裔美国人或黑人）中，曾经是163个成年女性（非洲女性或黑人）的妇女及其成熟的年龄在12个月中，他们的成年时间和他们的成熟年份为50％。受试者是一项完整的纵向研究的参与者，该研究由Spencer Foundation（M. Beeghly，PI）部分资助，并由我们自己的资源部分资助。本研究中的分析将基于每个年龄段的两个对比（结构化和非结构化）交互式环境中的录像带。具体目的是：1]评估跨环境和年龄跨年龄的MR分数的相对稳定性，以及儿童性别，年龄，互动环境对MR过程的影响； 2]评估MR变量与特定的生物学和社会背景变量的关系（难以确定与黑人家庭特别相关的特定变量（即，在家庭组成，社交支持和儿童等方面的变化）中，MR是否对不同的社交评估，以及MR是否与种族相关，以及MR是否与种族相关，以及MR是否与种族相关，是否尤其相关地评估MR是否与黑人家庭有关或18个月与18个月的儿童结局的四个领域有关（在孤独游戏中观察到的自我调节行为，依恋状态，语言技能和一般认知功能），每种行为都与儿童在童年后期的积极功能有关，并且4]评估每个年龄的MR变量是否介导了上下文变量之间的相关性和儿童之间的关系。儿童和产妇的影响和二元行为将使用单个评分系统（儿童照料者互惠）系统（CCMR）系统在每个年龄段的母子相互作用的录像带中进行微分析。时间序列分析将用于生成代表二元影响共享，赔偿，同步和双向的MR变量，并且将使用顺序数据分析技术来生成描述母体调节性响应儿童行为的变量。这项研究将是第一个在黑人母亲的单种族样本中评估纵向多个MR过程的研究，而在生命的第二年，SES的健康术语婴儿在SES中有所不同。调查结果将大大提高我们对这一队列中母子关系中个体差异的理解，并将提供有价值的信息，以告知和指导未来的研究，并设计为黑人母亲二元组及其家人较高风险群体的更有效的预防和干预服务。