Stability and Change in Attachment and Social Functioning, Infancy to Adolescence

婴儿期到青春期依恋和社会功能的稳定性和变化

• 批准号: 7901381
• 负责人: CATHRYN BOOTH-LAFORCE
• 金额: $ 36.58万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2007
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2007-09-01 至 2012-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7901381
• 关键词: Accounting; Address; Adolescence; Adolescent; Adult; Age; Area; Attention; Behavior; Caring; Characteristics; Child; Child Care; Classification; Climacteric; Data; Development; Enrollment; Family; Friends; Friendships; Income; Individual; Individual Differences; Interview; Knowledge; Life Cycle Stages; Link; Longitudinal Studies; Marital Status; Measures; Mental Health; Mind; Modeling; National Institute of Child Health and Human Development; Nature; Online Systems; Parenting behavior; Parents; Participant; Pathway interactions; Pattern; Peer Group; Process; Psychometrics; Psychopathology; Public Health; Questionnaires; Relative (related person); Research; Research Personnel; Risk; Role; Sampling; Secure; Security; Social Behavior; Social Functioning; Social Problems; Sorting - Cell Movement; Source; Staging; Testing; Time; Youth; base; cohort; contextual factors; early childhood; experience; infancy; peer; programs; prospective; social skills; theories

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): An important aspect of adjustment in adolescence is the nature and quality of social functioning, which includes relationships with parents, friends, and romantic partners as well as general functioning in the peer group. A key influence on adaptive or maladaptive social functioning across the life course is thought to be the security or insecurity of attachment. With a few notable exceptions, longitudinal studies of social functioning or studies attempting to link attachment quality with social functioning have followed a relatively small number of participants for only a few years. Key questions regarding sources of continuity and change in social functioning over time, the predictive significance of early vs. later attachment quality, and the role of contextual factors (e.g., significant life changes in the family) require long-term longitudinal data on a large number of participants. The answers to these questions are significant for understanding developmental pathways to optimal healthy functioning in adulthood. The primary purpose of the proposed study is to investigate pathways to the nature and quality of social functioning and attachment from infancy to late adolescence. We propose to take advantage of an unparalleled opportunity to address these questions by enrolling the existing longitudinal NICHD Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development (SECCYD) sample. The 1,000 SECCYD participants have been followed from infancy through mid-adolescence. We plan to assess this cohort at age 17.5 years and to add multiple measures of attachment quality, social functioning, and contextual factors, which we will collect via interviews and web-based questionnaires. Parents, best friends, and romantic partners of the study adolescents also will participate. The specific aims are (i) to identify developmental pathways to adaptive and maladaptive social functioning in late adolescence; (2) to evaluate the relations among relationships from early childhood to late adolescence and the relative strength of the associations between the quality of specific relationships and attachment quality; and (3) to evaluate stability and change in attachment, and in attachment in relation to social functioning, from infancy to late adolescence. A secondary aim is (4) to address methodological issues in attachment research. Adolescence is a fundamentally important period for the study of both positive and problematic development and behavior. In this period, experiences set the stage for functioning in adulthood, as individuals sort into trajectories of risk and opportunity that become increasingly difficult to alter. Thus, understanding developmental pathways to adaptive or maladaptive patterns of social behavior and relationships and the processes influencing developmental continuity and change in social functioning will provide fundamental knowledge that is relevant to public health as .well as theory.

描述（由申请人提供）：青春期调整的一个重要方面是社会功能的性质和质量，其中包括与父母、朋友和浪漫伴侣的关系以及同龄人群体中的一般功能。人们认为，对整个生命过程中适应性或适应不良的社会功能的一个关键影响是依恋的安全性或不安全性。除了一些明显的例外，社会功能的纵向研究或试图将依恋质量与社会功能联系起来的研究只跟踪了相对少数的参与者几年。关于社会功能随时间的连续性和变化的来源、早期与后期依恋质量的预测意义以及背景因素（例如家庭中的重大生活变化）的作用等关键问题需要大量参与者的长期纵向数据。这些问题的答案对于理解成年期最佳健康功能的发展途径具有重要意义。本研究的主要目的是调查从婴儿期到青春期后期社会功能和依恋的性质和质量的途径。我们建议利用一个无与伦比的机会，通过纳入现有的 NICHD 早期儿童保育和青少年发展纵向研究 (SECCYD) 样本来解决这些问题。对 1,000 名 SECCYD 参与者进行了从婴儿期到青春期中期的跟踪调查。我们计划在 17.5 岁时评估这一群体，并添加依恋质量、社会功能和背景因素的多种衡量标准，我们将通过访谈和网络问卷收集这些数据。研究青少年的父母、最好的朋友和浪漫伴侣也将参加。具体目标是（i）确定青春期后期适应和适应不良社会功能的发展途径； （2）评估从幼儿期到青春期后期的关系之间的关系，以及特定关系的质量和依恋质量之间的相对强度； （3）评估从婴儿期到青春期后期依恋以及与社会功能相关的依恋的稳定性和变化。第二个目标是（4）解决依恋研究中的方法论问题。青春期是研究积极和有问题的发展和行为的一个极其重要的时期。在这一时期，经历为成年期的运作奠定了基础，因为个人会进入越来越难以改变的风险和机遇的轨迹。因此，了解社会行为和关系的适应性或适应不良模式的发展途径以及影响社会功能发展连续性和变化的过程将提供与公共卫生以及理论相关的基础知识。