Risk factors for psychopathology

精神病理学的危险因素

• 批准号: 7544613
• 负责人: Erin Godfrey
• 金额: $ 2.6万
• 依托单位: NEW YORK UNIVERSITY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2008
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2008-09-01 至 2010-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7544613
• 关键词: Address; African American; Anxiety; Belief; Belief System; Birth; Child; Child Behavior; Child Development; Child Mental Disorders; Child health care; Cross-Sectional Studies; Data; Development; Disadvantaged; Disease regression; Dominican; Education; Equation; Ethics; Ethnic group; Family; Group Identifications; Human; Immigrant; Individual; Infant; Intervention; Link; Literature; Low income; Measures; Mental Depression; Mental Health; Mental disorders; Methods; Mexican; Minority Groups; Modeling; Mothers; New York City; Numbers; Other Resources; Outcome; Parenting behavior; Participant; Pattern; Policies; Population Study; Prevention intervention; Problem behavior; Process; Protestant; Psychopathology; Public Health; Qualitative Methods; Reporting; Research; Resource Sharing; Respondent; Risk; Risk Factors; Role; Sampling; Score; Screening procedure; Societies; Structure; Surveys; Symptoms; System; Talents; Techniques; Time; Woman; Work; base; cohort; college; design; early childhood; expectation; experience; improved; infancy; maternal depression; member; psychologic; response; theories; tool

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): System justification theory proposes that individuals develop belief systems to explain and legitimize existing status differences between groups in societies. Although people differ in the extent to which they endorse system-justifying beliefs, research shows they are widely endorsed and have important implications for mental health. In particular, recent research has found that system justification is related to mental disorders among members of low-status groups. However, the current research is limited by its focus on college samples and use of cross-sectional methods. The long-term objective of this application is to extend the current research on system justification by examining system justification as a risk factor for mental illness among low-income racial/ethnic minorities and recent immigrants, exploring relationships longitudinally and studying associations between maternal system justification and mental health and child behavior problems. The current project, comprised of two studies, relies on data from NYU's Center for Research on Culture, Development and Education (CRCDE), which have a number of advantages. First, the sample is composed of 200 low-income, immigrant and ethnically diverse women who recently gave birth in New York City. Second, mothers and their infants are followed longitudinally over three years and assessed using well- validated epidemiological screening tools for maternal mental disorders and child behavior problems. Third, the CRCDE combines quantitative survey measures with an embedded qualitative study of a random sample of survey members, allowing for a more nuanced understanding of relationships between constructs. The first study, focused on survey data, employs regression-based change score analyses and structural equation modeling techniques to explore longitudinal associations between maternal system justification, maternal mental illness and child behavior problems. I hypothesize that system justification will be positively related to maternal risk for mental illness and child behavior problems. The second study employs a mixed-methods approach, combining survey and qualitative data to explore the types of system- justifying beliefs endorsed by diverse low-income women, and identify factors that mitigate or exacerbate the relationship between system justification, maternal mental disorders and child behavior problems. The proposed project has direct implications for public health. System justification may be an important previously unidentified risk factor placing mothers and their children at risk for mental disorders and behavior problems. Understanding the role of system justification in mental health can inform policy and intervention efforts aimed at improving the mental health of vulnerable groups in the US.

描述（由申请人提供）：系统辩护理论提出，个人开发信仰体系来解释和使社会群体之间现有的状态差异合法化。尽管人们在认可系统的信念的程度上有所不同，但研究表明，他们得到了广泛认可，并且对心理健康具有重要意义。特别是，最近的研究发现，系统理由与低地位组成员之间的精神障碍有关。但是，当前的研究受到对大学样本的关注和使用横断面方法的限制。该应用程序的长期目标是通过将系统辩护作为低收入种族/族裔少数民族和最近移民的精神疾病的危险因素来扩展有关系统依据的当前研究，并纵向探索关系，并研究孕产妇系统合理和心理健康和儿童行为问题之间的关联。当前的项目由两项研究组成，依赖于纽约大学文化，发展和教育研究中心（CRCDE）的数据，这些数据具有许多优势。首先，该样本由最近在纽约市出生的200个低收入，移民和种族多样的妇女组成。其次，母亲及其婴儿在三年内纵向遵循，并使用经过良好验证的流行病学筛查工具来评估孕产妇精神障碍和儿童行为问题。第三，CRCDE将定量调查措施与对调查成员的随机样本进行嵌入式定性研究相结合，从而使人们对构造之间的关系有更细微的理解。第一项研究的重点是调查数据，采用基于回归的变更评分分析和结构方程建模技术来探索母体系统合理，孕产妇精神疾病和儿童行为问题之间的纵向关联。我假设系统理由将与母亲患精神疾病和儿童行为问题的风险呈正相关。第二项研究采用了混合方法方法，将调查和定性数据结合起来，探索由多样化的低收入妇女认可的系统合理的类型，并确定减轻或加剧系统合理性，孕产妇精神障碍和儿童行为问题之间关系的因素。拟议的项目对公共卫生有直接影响。系统辩护可能是以前不明的危险因素，使母亲及其子女面临精神障碍和行为问题的风险。了解系统辩护在心理健康中的作用可以为旨在改善美国弱势群体的心理健康的政策和干预工作提供依据。