Prebirth predictors of early coparenting

描述（由申请人提供）：这是James P. McHale的修订提案，旨在获得NICHD的独立科学家奖（KO2）。拟议的RCA的总体目标是将候选人从教学和行政职责中解放出来，投入几乎全部的时间来继续和进一步发展他在早期父母养育和婴儿发育方面的程序性研究。这项工作反映了社会化理论的一个重要转变，在20世纪90年代中期之前，它忽视了家庭群体层面的组织。然而，最近的工作文件表明，父母教养过程在早期家庭形成过程中形成，随着时间的推移显示出明显的稳定性，并显示出与儿童社会和情感适应的未来关系。然而，关于共同养育和家庭层面动态的决定因素，包括婴儿对发展中的共同养育系统的影响，我们知之甚少。尽管有重复的研究表明，父母之间的对抗和缺乏相互关系会导致孩子出现冲动控制、攻击性和焦虑等问题，但利用这一知识的干预研究还没有出现。该RCA将为正在进行的关于养育联盟在促进婴幼儿适应和心理健康方面的演变和作用的研究议程内的5年规划工作提供背景。工作包括一项目前正在进行的关于向父母身份过渡的RO1研究，以及最近完成的第二项关于从婴儿期到幼儿期父母身份的研究。RCA将加强对一个综合模型的追求，记录父母不和谐何时促进儿童的生长，何时阻碍儿童的生长。它还将允许候选人发展新的评估和分析技能，以有希望的新方式处理数据，扩大婴儿对早期家庭动态的贡献的概念化。制度环境是强有力的支持。职业发展活动，在这份重新提交的文件中有更详细的概述，包括：深入学习微观分析和顶尖专家的转化研究，以及纵向分析和高级统计建模的课程。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This revised proposal from James P. McHale seeks an Independent Scientist Award (KO2) from the NICHD. The overall aim of the proposed RCA is to free the candidate from teaching and administrative duties to devote nearly full time to continue and develop further his programmatic research on early coparenting and infant development. This work has reflected an important shift in socialization theory, which prior to the mid 1990s neglected family group level organization. However, recent work documents that coparenting processes take shape during early family formation, show marked stability over time, and show prospective relations with children's social and emotional adjustment. Yet little is known about determinants of coparenting and family level dynamics, including infant effects on the developing coparental system. And despite replicated research documenting that coparental antagonism and lack of mutuality lead to child problems with impulse control, aggression, and anxiety, intervention studies capitalizing on this knowledge are not yet on the horizon. This RCA would provide a context for 5 years of programmatic work nested within an ongoing research agenda on the evolution and role of coparenting alliances in promoting infant and child adjustment and mental health. Work includes a currently active RO1 study of the transition to coparenthood and a second recently completed study of coparenting from infancy to toddlerhood.The RCA would enhance pursuit of a comprehensive model documenting when coparental dissonance is growth promoting and when it is growth stultifying for children. It would also permit the candidate to develop new evaluation and analytic skills to address data in promising new ways that expand conceptualizations of infant contributions to early family dynamics. Institutional environment is strongly supportive. Career development activities, outlined in greater detail in this resubmission, include: intensive learning about microanalysis and about translational research with leading experts, and coursework in longitudinal analysis and advanced statistical modeling.