Determinants of Resilience: Mental Health, Maltreatment and Adaptive Behavior

描述（由申请人提供）：心理健康，儿童虐待和适应行为结果暴露于虐待是一个普遍的主要生活事件和巨大的心理健康风险的儿童。对于寄养中受虐待的儿童，病理学风险尤其重要，了解寄养人口取得积极成果的途径至关重要。使用的压力和应对的交易模型，其中关键的个人和环境变量之间的相互关系的操作，以预测结果，这个项目解决了儿童暴露于虐待和寄养显示积极的调整。本研究的目的是：（a）纵向考察资源、环境和对重大生活事件的评价在预测寄养儿童适应行为中的作用;（B）确定对应对方式的评价对产生适应行为的相对重要性。这个项目的结果将通知文学的压力和应对测试的理论模型的关系在寄养儿童的样本。这项研究将澄清我们的基础科学需要了解经历虐待，生活在寄养和心理健康结果之间的关系，以及我们对恢复力和积极调整的可能机制的干预意识。公共卫生相关性：该研究测试了遭受虐待的儿童的恢复力如何发展。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Mental Health, Child Maltreatment and Adaptive Behavior Outcomes Exposure to maltreatment is a pervasive major life event and a tremendous mental health risk for children. For maltreated children placed in foster care, the risk for pathology is especially significant and understanding the pathways to positive outcomes for the foster-care population is crucial. Using a transactional model of stress and coping, wherein the mutual relationships among key personal and environmental variables operate to predict outcomes, this project addresses how children exposed to maltreatment and foster care display positive adjustment. The aims for the study are to (a) longitudinally examine the roles of resources, context, and appraisal of major life events in predicting adaptive behavior of children exposed to maltreatment living in foster care, and (b) determine the relative importance of appraisal on coping style for producing adaptive behavior. The results of this project will inform the literature on stress and coping by testing a theoretical model of the relations in a sample of children in foster care. This research will clarify our basic-science need to understand the relation between experiencing maltreatment, living in foster care, and mental health outcomes and our intervention-minded awareness of possible mechanisms for resilience and positive adjustment. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: The study tests how resilience develops in children exposed to maltreatment.