Emotional Processes in Families:New Methods Capturing Multiple Levels of Analysis

描述(申请人提供)：目前的申请是针对FOA(PA-08-212：“行为和社会科学中的方法论和测量”)而开发的，旨在通过来自发展精神病理学、心脏病学、通信学、电气工程和计算机科学等学科的科学家的跨学科网络的协作专业知识，进一步促进测量和分析方法，以捕捉家庭中多个水平的个人适应。此外，为了说明这些方法和数量进步的潜在效用，我们测试了我们的心理生理反应的多水平量化的可行性，作为一种潜在的机制，在更广泛的发展精神病理学框架内，告知青少年暴露在家庭冲突中和他们的心理适应之间的途径。研究应用的具体目标是：(1)开发更可行和更经济的无线系统，用于有效地捕获家庭交互任务期间潜在的情绪反应的生理和行为过程，(2)测试与当前文献中使用的这些领域的标准评估相关的无线、非卧床生理和副语言测量的心理测量学特性，(3)调查新的潜在变量增长建模方法用于对多水平系统中的功能进行建模的效用，以及(4)由来自发展过程模型的预测指导，通过检查发育过程模型中个体反应性的个体差异的预测因子和后遗症，来检验心理生理学结构的多系统评估是否对发育有意义。为了实现这些目标，研究小组将利用母亲和青春期前儿童相互作用的观察范式，在一年的时间里进行两次评估。关于青少年在家庭背景下的情绪反应以及与发展结果的联系的信息，以及将在本申请中开发的方法，将引起跨越不同任务优先事项和研究目标的几个NIH研究所的极大兴趣。特别是，用于模拟多层次分析结构以及相关的发育、身体和心理健康结果的评估工具将与NICHD和NIMH都相关。 公共卫生相关性：该项目产生的方法将具有重要的公共卫生意义，通过从多个层次的分析得出新的方法来调查冲突期间青少年情绪反应的调节模式。此外，该项目将更好地了解家庭中的情绪反应如何影响青少年接触家庭冲突与他们的社会情绪和突出阶段的调整之间的途径。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The current application was developed in response to FOA (PA-08-212: "Methodology and Measurement in the Behavioral and Social Sciences") and is designed to further advance measurement and analytic methods for capturing multiple levels of individual adaptation in the family through the collaborative expertise of an interdisciplinary network of scientists from disciplines of Developmental Psychopathology, Cardiology, Communications, Electrical Engineering, and Computer Science. Furthermore, as an illustration of the potential utility of these methodological and quantitative advances, we test the viability of our multi-level quantification of psychophysiological reactivity as a potential mechanism that informs pathways between adolescent exposure to family conflict and their psychological adjustment within the broader developmental psychopathology framework. The condensed specific aims of the research application are: (1) develop more feasible and economical wireless systems for validly capturing physiological and behavioral processes underlying emotional reactivity during family interaction tasks, (2) test the psychometric properties of the wireless, ambulatory physiological and paralinguistic measures in relation to the standard assessments of these domains currently used in the literature, (3) investigate the utility for new latent variable growth modeling approaches for modeling functioning in multi-level systems, and (4) guided by predictions from a developmental process model, examine whether multi-system assessments of psychophysiological constructs are developmentally meaningful by examining predictors and sequelae of individual differences in individual components of reactivity in developmental process models. To achieve these aims, the research team will utilize observational paradigms of mothers and preadolescents in interaction with one another with two assessments occurring over the span of one year. The information derived with respect to adolescent emotional reactivity in the context of the family and links to developmental outcomes as well as the methods to be developed in the present application will be of substantial interest to several NIH institutes cutting across different mission priorities and research objectives. In particular, the assessment tools for modeling multiple levels of analysis constructs and associated developmental, physical and mental health outcomes will be of relevance to both NICHD and NIMH. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: The methodologies produced from this project will have important public health significance through the derivation of new methods for investigating patterns of regulation of emotional reactivity in adolescents during conflict from multiple levels of analysis. Furthermore, this project will enhance greater understanding of how emotional reactivity in the family informs pathways between adolescent exposure to family conflict and their socio-emotional and stage-salient adjustment.