Correlates of Foster Mother-Infant Bonding

寄养母婴关系的相关因素

• 批准号: 7613989
• 负责人: Johanna Renee Bick
• 金额: $ 3.05万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2009-01-01 至 2010-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7613989
• 关键词: Adolescence; Attention; Behavior; Behavioral; Biological; Caregivers; Caring; Child; Childhood; Commit; Development; Disease; Emotional; Emotional disorder; Event-Related Potentials; Exhibits; Feeling; Fostering; Goals; Hormones; Image; Individual Differences; Infant; Infant Development; Interview; Life; Measurement; Measures; Mothers; Neurobiology; Neuropeptides; Object Attachment; Oxytocin; Parents; Placement; Play; Prevention intervention; Problem behavior; Production; Psychophysiology; Public Health; Reporting; Research; Research Project Grants; Risk; Risk Factors; Sampling; Signal Transduction; Structure; Substance abuse problem; Techniques; Testing; Time; United States; Week; behavior measurement; foster care; foster parent; intervention program; research study; response; social

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The first aim of the proposed research study is to examine changes in foster mothers' reports of commitment, and neurobiological, psychophysiological, and behavioral correlates of bond formation among foster mothers across the first three months of the relationship with their foster infants. The second aim is to identify predictors of individual differences in the bonding among foster mothers. The proposed research project integrates multiple techniques to achieve these goals. Biological measurements will include the foster mothers' production of oxytocin, a hormone associated with bond formation, and the foster mothers' "motivated attention" (measured through event related potentials) exhibited in response to images of their foster infant. Foster mothers' commitment is measured through a semi-structured interview that includes questions regarding the foster mothers' feelings toward the infant in their care. Behavioral measures include the amount of delight that the foster mothers exhibit toward their infants in play. These factors will be assessed in each foster mother during the first weeks of placement and after the infant has lived with the foster mother for three months. Results from this study would broaden the understanding of how alloparental bonds form, assist in the identification of foster mothers who may have difficulty forming committed bonds to foster infants, and be useful in the development of intervention programs aimed at promoting high-quality foster mother-infant bonds. Because the research will increase the understanding of protective and risk factors related to foster parentinfant bond formation and foster infant development, such research is highly relevant to professionals in a variety of fields who treat infants in foster care or who are involved in foster infant placement decisions. This research study also has high relevance for the field of public health as it would contribute to efforts to reduce the risk of foster infants' developmental and social-emotional problems, which are associated with substance abuse problems, externalizing, and internalizing disorders later in later childhood and adolescence.

描述（由申请人提供）：拟议研究的首要目的是检查养母承诺报告的变化，以及养母在与养婴建立关系的前三个月内与养母之间的纽带形成的神经生物学、心理生理学和行为相关性。第二个目标是确定养母之间关系个体差异的预测因素。拟议的研究项目集成了多种技术来实现这些目标。生物学测量将包括养母产生的催产素（一种与纽带形成相关的激素），以及养母对其寄养婴儿的图像做出反应时表现出的“动机性注意力”（通过事件相关电位测量）。寄养母亲的承诺是通过半结构化访谈来衡量的，其中包括有关寄养母亲对其照顾的婴儿的感受的问题。行为测量包括养母对玩耍中的婴儿表现出的喜悦程度。在安置的第一周以及婴儿与养母一起生活三个月后，将对每位养母进行这些因素的评估。这项研究的结果将拓宽对异亲关系如何形成的理解，帮助识别可能难以形成寄养婴儿承诺关系的养母，并有助于制定旨在促进高质量寄养母婴关系的干预计划。由于该研究将增加对与寄养父母婴儿关系形成和寄养婴儿发育相关的保护性和风险因素的理解，因此此类研究与治疗寄养婴儿或参与寄养婴儿安置决策的各个领域的专业人士高度相关。这项研究还与公共卫生领域具有高度相关性，因为它将有助于降低寄养婴儿发育和社会情感问题的风险，这些问题与儿童后期和青春期的药物滥用问题、外化和内化障碍有关。