Origins of Maternal Sensitivity to Infant Distress

母亲对婴儿痛苦敏感的根源

• 批准号: 7647866
• 负责人: Esther M Leerkes
• 金额: $ 29.58万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA GREENSBORO
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2009-06-15 至 2013-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7647866
• 关键词: Address; Adult; Affective; African American; American; Arousal; Attention; Behavior; Cereals; Characteristics; Child; Child Behavior; Child Mental Health; Cognition; Cognitive; Crying; Data; Development; Distress; Early treatment; Emotional; Emotions; European; Family; Fostering; Goals; Individual; Individual Differences; Infant; Infant Behavior; Intervention; Interview; Joints; Knowledge; Life; Link; Literature; Maternal Behavior; Measures; Mothers; Outcome; Parenting behavior; Parents; Pathway interactions; Patient Self-Report; Pattern; Perception; Physiological; Postpartum Period; Preventive Intervention; Procedures; Process; Questionnaires; Recording of previous events; Research; Research Project Grants; Risk; Role; Sampling; Screening procedure; Security; Services; Socialization; Structure; Thinking; Translational Research; Videotape; Work; child well being; design; early experience; emotion regulation; emotional adjustment; ethnic difference; experience; indexing; infant temperament; prenatal; programs; public health relevance; response; social; theories; tool

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The purpose of this project is to determine if maternal sensitivity to distress and maternal sensitivity to non- distress are unique constructs by: 1) examining their factor structure, 2) determining if they have different origins with an emphasis on emotion socialization in the family of origin and resulting emotion-related schema; and 3) determining if they differentially predict infant social emotional adjustment. An additional aim is to determine if the results vary between African American and European American dyads. This work is relevant to the mental health of children because maternal sensitivity to distress is a predictor of positive child outcomes, but we know little about the processes that promote sensitive behavior in response to infant crying. Identifying the processes that influence how mothers respond to their distressed infants and the origins of these processes will inform the development of screening tools to identify mothers at risk for parenting difficulties and the design of individually tailored intervention efforts to foster sensitive maternal behavior and positive social emotional functioning early in life. Two hundred and fifty primiparous mothers (150 European American, 100 African American) and their infants will participate in this study. During the prenatal period, mothers will complete questionnaires and an interview about their relationship with their own parents and will be interviewed about their responses to videotapes of distressed infants; physiological indices of arousal and emotional control will be collected during the latter. At 6 and 12 months postpartum, mothers and infants will participate in videotaped assessments of maternal sensitivity to distress and non-distress, infant temperament and emotion regulation, and attachment security. Physiological indices of mothers' and infants' emotional arousal and emotional control will be collected during these mother-infant interaction tasks. Upon completion of these tasks, mothers will watch their video footage and be interviewed about their thoughts, emotions, and goals and their infants' behavior during the tasks. Results will extend our knowledge of the processes that influence maternal sensitivity in emotionally arousing settings, a critical context for children's emotional development. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: The proposed research addresses emotional and cognitive factors relevant to sensitive maternal behavior in response to infant crying. Prior research has demonstrated that maternal sensitivity to distress facilitates optimal social-emotional functioning early in life; however, little is known about the origins of this type of parenting behavior. The examination of familial and personal characteristics that predict this type of maternal sensitivity will yield rich data that can inform the development of early intervention strategies and procedures to identify families in need of such services.

描述(申请人提供)：本项目的目的是确定母亲对痛苦的敏感和母亲对非痛苦的敏感是否是独特的结构：1)检查它们的因素结构，2)确定它们是否有不同的起源，重点是起源家庭中的情绪社会化和由此产生的情绪相关图式；以及3)确定它们是否对婴儿的社会情绪适应有不同的预测作用。另一个目的是确定非裔美国人和欧洲裔美国人的结果是否不同。这项研究与儿童的心理健康有关，因为母亲对痛苦的敏感是孩子积极结局的预测指标，但我们对婴儿哭泣时促进敏感行为的过程知之甚少。确定影响母亲如何应对其困境婴儿的过程以及这些过程的起源将有助于开发筛查工具，以确定有育儿困难风险的母亲，并设计个性化的干预努力，以在生命早期培养敏感的母亲行为和积极的社会情绪功能。250名初产母亲(150名欧洲裔美国人，100名非洲裔美国人)及其婴儿将参加这项研究。在产前，母亲将完成关于她们与父母关系的问卷和访谈，并将就她们对痛苦婴儿的录像带的反应进行访谈；在后者期间，将收集唤醒和情绪控制的生理指标。在产后6个月和12个月，母亲和婴儿将参与对母亲对痛苦和非痛苦的敏感性、婴儿气质和情绪调节以及依恋安全感的录像评估。在这些母婴互动任务中，将收集母婴情绪唤醒和情绪控制的生理指标。在完成这些任务后，母亲们将观看她们的视频片段，并接受关于她们的想法、情绪、目标和婴儿在任务期间的行为的采访。结果将扩大我们对情绪唤醒环境中影响母亲敏感性的过程的了解，情绪唤醒环境是儿童情绪发展的关键环境。公共卫生相关性：拟议的研究涉及与敏感的母亲行为相关的情感和认知因素，以应对婴儿的哭闹。先前的研究已经证明，母亲对痛苦的敏感有助于在生命早期实现最佳的社会情绪功能；然而，人们对这种类型的育儿行为的起源知之甚少。对预测这种类型的产妇敏感性的家庭和个人特征的检查将产生丰富的数据，这些数据可以为制定早期干预战略和程序，以确定需要这种服务的家庭提供信息。