Foster Parenting Styles and Adolescent Mental Health Status

培养养育方式和青少年心理健康状况

• 批准号: 7413874
• 负责人: Geetha Gopalan
• 金额: $ 3.2万
• 依托单位: COLUMBIA UNIV NEW YORK MORNINGSIDE
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2008
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2008-02-01 至 2009-01-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7413874
• 关键词: Adolescent; Age; Burn injury; Caregivers; Caring; Child; Child Welfare; Clinical; Data; Data Analyses; Data Collection; Development; Dimensions; Disadvantaged; Disease regression; Exhibits; Family; Fostering; General Population; Goals; Health Status; Home environment; Investigation; Longitudinal Studies; Longitudinal Surveys; Measures; Mental Health; Mental Health Services; Modeling; Neighborhoods; Numbers; Outcome; Parenting behavior; Parents; Personal Satisfaction; Placement; Probability; Provider; Psyche structure; Psychopathology; Purpose; Relative (related person); Research; Risk; Sampling; Score; Services; Surveys; Symptoms; System; Testing; Time; Typology; United States; United States Dept. of Health and Human Services; Weight; Youth; abuse neglect; aged; experience; foster care; foster parent; maltreatment; prevent; theories

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The primary goal of the current study is to explore whether parenting styles exhibited by foster parents (e.g., non-permanent relative and non-relative caregivers) are associated with positive mental health outcomes among maltreated adolescents in foster care. This study will conduct secondary data analyses using the National Survey of Child and Adolescent Well-Being (NSCAW), the first national probability, longitudinal survey of children and families investigated for abuse and neglect in the United States. The current study will focus on a subsample of 254 adolescents (ages 11-15) who have been placed in foster care at the beginning of the survey. This study is guided by Baumrind's (1971, 1972, 1978, 2005) and Maccoby and Martin's (1983) theoretical framework on parenting styles. Accordingly, parenting is organized into two dimensions, responsiveness and demandingness, which interact to form a fourfold parenting style typology: authoritative (high responsiveness, high demandingness), authoritarian (low responsiveness, high demandingness), indulgent (high responsiveness, low demandingness), and neglectful (low responsiveness, low demandingness). This study has the following specific aims: (1) examine the relationship between dimensions of foster parenting (responsiveness, demandingness, and their interaction) and adolescent mental health status (internalizing symptoms, externalizing symptoms) measured 18 months later; (2) identify associations between foster parenting style types (authoritative, authoritarian, indulgent, neglectful) and adolescent mental status (internalizing symptoms, externalizing symptoms) measured 18 months later; and (3) explore the potential moderating effects of neighborhood disadvantage on foster parenting and mental health outcomes. Secondary analyses of the NSCAW data using multivariate models (e.g., survey weighted multiple regression, propensity score weighting analysis) will test the following hypotheses: (1) foster parent dimensions measured at wave 1 (responsiveness, demandingness, and their interaction) are inversely associated with adolescent internalizing and externalizing symptoms at wave 3; (2) specific parenting style types (authoritative, authoritarian, indulgent, neglectful) measured at wave 1 will have a differential impact on adolescent mental health status (internalizing symptoms, externalizing symptoms) measured at wave 3; and (3) where present, the associations between foster parenting style type measured at wave 1 and adolescent mental health status at wave 3 are moderated by neighborhood disadvantage. The proposed study responds to calls for the identification of risk and protective factors influencing the developmental of psychopathology among youth who have been abused and neglected. Moreover, this study seeks to confirm if parenting style theory researched on general population samples applies to maltreated adolescents in foster care. The current study explores whether foster parenting style is associated with positive mental health outcomes among a nationally representative sample of adolescents in foster care. As a result, findings from this study can potentially generalize to large numbers of maltreated adolescents placed in foster care who have an increased risk of developing serious mental health difficulties (Administration for Children & Families, 2003; Curtis & Petit, 1997; McMillen et al., 2005; Pilowsky & Wu, 2006). Given that the clinical needs of foster youth are frequently not met by traditional mental health services (Blumberg, Landsverk, Ellis-MacLeod, Ganger, & Culver, 1996; Burns et al., 1995; Burns et al., 2004; Garland, Landsverk, & Lau, 2003; Glisson, 1996; Lyons & Rogers, 2004; Trupin, Tarico, Low, Jemelka, & McClellan, 1993), identifying protective factors within foster parenting may provide additional means of preventing serious mental health difficulties among adolescents in foster care.

描述(由申请人提供)：本研究的主要目标是探讨寄养父母(例如，非永久亲属和非亲属照顾者)表现出的育儿方式是否与寄养中心中受到虐待的青少年的积极心理健康结果有关。这项研究将使用全国儿童和青少年幸福感调查(NSCAW)进行二次数据分析，这是美国第一次对因虐待和忽视而调查的儿童和家庭进行的全国性概率纵向调查。目前的研究将集中在调查开始时被寄养的254名青少年(年龄在11-15岁之间)的子样本。本研究以Baumrind(1971,1972,1978,2005)和Maccoby和Martin(1983)关于父母教养方式的理论框架为指导。相应地，父母养育被组织为两个维度，反应性和需求性，它们相互作用，形成了四重养育风格类型：权威(高反应性，高需求性)、威权主义(低反应性，高需求性)、放纵(高反应性，低需求性)和忽视(低反应性，低需求性)。本研究的具体目的如下：(1)考察养育方式各维度(反应性、需求性及其相互作用)与18个月后测量的青少年心理健康状况(内在性症状、外化性症状)之间的关系；(2)确定寄养方式类型(权威性、威权性、放纵、疏忽)与18个月后测量的青少年心理状况(内在性症状、外化性症状)之间的关系；(3)探索邻里劣势对寄养父母和心理健康结果的潜在调节作用。使用多元模型(如调查加权多元回归、倾向分数加权分析)对NSCAW数据进行二次分析将检验以下假设：(1)在波1测量的寄养父母维度(反应性、需求性及其交互作用)与波3的青少年内化和外化症状呈负相关；(2)在波1测量的特定父母类型(权威、威权、纵容、忽视)将对在波3测量的青少年心理健康状况(内化症状、外化症状)产生不同的影响；(3)在存在的情况下，在第一波测量的寄养父母风格类型和第三波的青少年心理健康状况之间的关联被邻里劣势所调节。这项拟议的研究响应了人们的呼吁，即确定在被虐待和被忽视的青年中影响精神病理学发展的风险和保护因素。此外，这项研究试图证实，在普通人群样本中研究的父母教养方式理论是否适用于寄养家庭中受到虐待的青少年。目前的研究探索了寄养父母的方式是否与寄养家庭中具有全国代表性的青少年的积极心理健康结果有关。因此，这项研究的结果可能会推广到寄养家庭中的大量受到虐待的青少年，他们发展成严重精神健康问题的风险增加(儿童和家庭管理局，2003；Curtis&Petit，1997；McMillen等人，2005；Pilowsky&Wu，2006)。鉴于寄养青少年的临床需求通常不能被传统的心理健康服务所满足(Blumberg，Landsverk，Ellis-MacLeod，Ganger，&Culver，1996；Burns et al.，1995；Burns et al.，2004；Garland，Landsverk，&Lau，2003；Glisson，1996；Lyons&Rogers，2004；Trupin，Tarico，Low，Jemelka，&McClellan，1993)，识别寄养父母中的保护因素可能会为预防寄养青少年中严重的心理健康问题提供额外的手段。