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，个人发展信仰系统，以解释和合法化社会群体之间现有的地位差异。虽然人们在多大程度上支持系统辩护的信念，但研究表明，它们得到了广泛的支持，并对心理健康有重要的影响。特别是，最近的研究发现，系统的理由与低地位群体成员的精神障碍有关。然而，目前的研究局限于它的重点是大学样本和使用的横截面方法。本申请的长期目标是通过检查低收入种族/少数民族和新移民中精神疾病的风险因素，纵向探索关系和研究孕产妇系统的理由和心理健康和儿童行为问题之间的关联，系统的理由，以扩展目前的研究。目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，样本由200名最近在纽约市分娩的低收入、移民和种族多样化的妇女组成。其次，对母亲及其婴儿进行三年以上的纵向跟踪，并使用经过充分验证的流行病学筛查工具对母亲精神障碍和儿童行为问题进行评估。第三，CRCDE将定量调查措施与随机抽样调查成员的嵌入式定性研究相结合，从而更细致地了解结构之间的关系。第一项研究，集中于调查数据，采用基于回归的变化分数分析和结构方程建模技术，探讨纵向关联母亲的系统的理由，母亲的精神疾病和儿童行为问题。我假设，系统的理由将积极相关的精神疾病和儿童行为问题的母亲的风险。第二个研究采用混合方法，结合调查和定性数据，探讨不同的低收入妇女所支持的制度辩护信念的类型，并确定减轻或加剧制度辩护，母亲的精神障碍和儿童行为问题之间的关系的因素。拟议中的项目对公众健康有直接影响。系统的理由可能是一个重要的先前未确定的风险因素，使母亲和他们的孩子在精神障碍和行为问题的风险。了解系统合理性在心理健康中的作用可以为旨在改善美国弱势群体心理健康的政策和干预工作提供信息。