Prebirth predictors of early coparenting

描述(由申请人提供)：詹姆斯·P·麦克黑尔的这份修改后的提案寻求NICHD颁发独立科学家奖(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，几乎全职用于继续和进一步发展他关于早期配对和婴儿发展的方案研究。这项工作反映了社会化理论的一个重要转变，在1990年代中期之前，这一理论忽视了家庭小组一级的组织。然而，最近的工作文件表明，配对过程在家庭形成的早期形成，随着时间的推移显示出显著的稳定性，并显示出与儿童的社会和情绪适应的预期关系。然而，关于生育和家庭层面动态的决定因素，包括婴儿对发育中的伴侣系统的影响，人们知之甚少。尽管重复的研究记录表明，共同对抗和缺乏互动性会导致儿童的冲动控制、攻击性和焦虑问题，但利用这一知识的干预研究尚未出现。这项区域合作协定将为五年的方案工作提供一个背景，该方案工作嵌套在一个正在进行的关于伙伴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中。工作包括目前正在进行的一项关于转变为夫妻的RO1研究，以及最近完成的第二项关于从婴儿期到蹒跚学步的共同成长的研究。RCA将加强对一种全面模型的追求，记录共同不和谐何时促进儿童成长，何时阻碍儿童成长。它还将使候选人能够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撑。在这份重新提交的文件中更详细地概述了职业发展活动，包括：与主要专家深入学习有关微观分析和翻译研究的知识，以及纵向分析和高级统计建模方面的课程。

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.