Maternal Self-Regulation and Parenting: Contributions to Infant Self-Regulation

母亲的自我调节和养育：对婴儿自我调节的贡献

• 批准号: 8210061
• 负责人: DAVID J BRIDGETT
• 金额: $ 22.06万
• 依托单位: NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2011
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2011-09-26 至 2013-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8210061
• 关键词: Address; Age; Area; Attention; Behavior; Behavioral; Blood Pressure; Cardiovascular system; Caregivers; Child; Child Support; Cognitive; Crying; Development; Distress; Effectiveness; Emotional; Emotions; Failure; Foundations; Frustration; Future; Infant; Informal Social Control; Life; Link; Measures; Mediating; Modeling; Mothers; Parenting behavior; Parents; Participant; Physiological; Play; Procedures; Process; Psychopathology; Reaction; Recruitment Activity; Regulation; Relative (related person); Reporting; Risk; Rural; Sampling; Simulate; Site; Social Environment; Stress; Taxes; Time; Touch sensation; Toy; Work; arm; critical period; distraction; distress tolerance; early childhood; emotion regulation; executive function; gaze; heart rate variability; indexing; infancy; intervention program; longitudinal design; negative emotional state; novel; programs; simulation; skills; social; stressor; vocalization

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The attainment of adequate self-regulation represents a critical developmental milestone that has significant implications for children's social-emotional wellbeing. Prior work has noted the importance of parenting for children's early developing self-regulatory skills, particularly at times in life, such as infancy and early toddlerhood, when children rely heavily on parental support in the regulation of emotion and behavior. Although preliminary evidence suggests that parental self-regulation is important for parenting, most studies have not focused on parenting in early childhood and have not linked parental self-regulation to children's self-regulation through parenting. The aim of the current proposal is to evaluate the effects of multiple aspects of maternal self-regulation (e.g., emotion regulation, effortful control, executive functions, and physiological regulation [heart rate variability]) on parenting of infants and on the emergence of infant self-regulation directly and through parenting. Using a diverse sample (n = 200) of typically developing infants and maternal caregivers recruited from one urban and one rural site, the current proposal evaluates parenting under two conditions. First, the implications of maternal self-regulation for parenting infants in the context of high infant distress is examined using a novel parenting simulation task wherein maternal caregivers interact with a highly distressed, life-like infant simulator. Next, the mother's interactions with her own infant will be evaluated in the context of free play and after a mild infant stressor. Finally, infant self-regulation of emotion during a frustrating task will be examined. It is anticipated that maternal caregivers who have better self-regulation will engage in more adaptive, sensitive parenting behavior during the simulation task as well as with their own infant during play and after a mild stressor. Furthermore, it is expected that parenting will mediate the effects of maternal self-regulation on infant self-regulation. The current study has implications for early developing self-regulatory skills, developmental psychopathology, models of parenting, as well as for parent-infant intervention programs. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: The work described in the current study has substantial implications for mechanisms, such as parenting and parent self-regulation, which can support children at later risk for behavioral and emotional problems as well as for academic failure, through early developing self-regulation. As such, the current study has implications for early developing self-regulatory skills, developmental psychopathology, models of parenting, as well as for parent-infant intervention programs.

描述(由申请人提供)：获得足够的自我调节是一个关键的发展里程碑，对儿童的社会和情绪健康具有重大影响。先前的工作已经注意到为人父母对儿童早期发展自我调节能力的重要性，特别是在生活中的一些时候，如婴儿期和幼儿早期，当儿童在情绪和行为的调节方面严重依赖父母的支持时。虽然初步证据表明，父母的自我调节对养育子女很重要，但大多数研究并没有关注儿童早期的养育方式，也没有将父母的自我调节与儿童通过养育方式进行的自我调节联系起来。当前建议的目的是评估母亲自我调节的多个方面(例如，情绪调节、努力控制、执行功能和生理调节[心率变异性])对婴儿养育的影响，以及对婴儿直接和通过父母养育出现的自我调节的影响。使用从一个城市和一个农村地点招募的典型发育中的婴儿和产妇照顾者的不同样本(n=200)，当前的提案评估了两种情况下的育儿方式。首先，使用一种新的育儿模拟任务来考察在婴儿高度痛苦的背景下母亲自我调节对养育婴儿的影响，其中母亲照顾者与高度痛苦的、栩栩如生的婴儿模拟器交互。接下来，将在自由游戏的背景下和在轻微的婴儿应激源之后评估母亲与自己的婴儿的互动。最后，我们将考察婴儿在一项令人沮丧的任务中对情绪的自我调节。据预测，自我调节能力较好的母亲照顾者在模拟任务期间以及在游戏期间和轻微应激源之后与自己的婴儿一起时，会采取更适应、更敏感的父母行为。此外，父母教养方式将在母亲自我调节对婴儿自我调节的影响中起中介作用。目前的研究对早期发展自我调节技能、发展精神病理学、父母养育模式以及亲子干预计划都有意义。 公共卫生相关性：本研究中描述的工作对父母养育和父母自我调节等机制具有重大影响，这些机制可以通过早期发展自我调节来支持以后有行为和情绪问题以及学业失败风险的儿童。因此，目前的研究对早期发展自我调节技能、发展精神病理学、父母养育模式以及亲子干预计划都有意义。