Identifying Causal Mechanisms in an Emotion-Based Preventive Intervention

识别基于情绪的预防干预中的因果机制

• 批准号: 8034256
• 负责人: Carroll E Izard
• 金额: $ 61.71万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2008
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2008-03-01 至 2013-02-28
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8034256
• 关键词: Adaptive Behaviors; Basic Science; Behavior; Behavior assessment; Behavioral; Child; Child Development; Competence; Development; Economically Deprived Population; Effectiveness; Emotions; Feeling; Goals; Growth; Head Start Program; Health; Intervention; Investments; Knowledge; Life; Longitudinal Studies; Measures; Mediating; Mediator of activation protein; Mental Health; Modeling; Mothers; Motivation; Parenting behavior; Parents; Performance; Poverty; Prevalence; Prevention program; Preventive Intervention; Problem Solving; Psychopathology; Psychotherapy; Randomized; Research; Risk Factors; Robin bird; Role; Rural; Schools; Single Parent; Social Adjustment; Social Behavior; Social Functioning; Source; Temperament; Translational Research; Ursidae Family; base; behavior change; depressive symptoms; design; emotion regulation; emotional adjustment; improved; inner city; physical conditioning; showing emotion; skills; social; social skills; teacher; theories; treatment effect

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The emotion-based prevention program (EBP), which now contains an Emotions Course for Parents as well as one for young children, is designed to increase emotion knowledge (understanding of the expressions, feeling states, and functions of emotions), emotion regulatory ability, and the adaptive use of emotion motivation. The research that led to the development of EBP showed that emotion knowledge and emotion regulation consistently related to increases in children's adaptive behavior and decreases in maladaptive behavior. The preliminary research on EBP showed that it accelerated the development of emotion knowledge. It also provided tentative evidence that emotion knowledge facilitated the development of emotion regulation. In turn, emotion competence, defined in terms of both emotion knowledge and emotion regulation, facilitated the development of social competence and a decrease in the prevalence of disruptive, aggressive, and internalizing behavior in economically disadvantaged children. Our previous research also showed that the amount of parents' participation in EBP activities contributed to its beneficial effects on their children and inspired the addition of the Emotions Course Parent to EBP. We will randomly divide Head Start Centers for an EBP-treatment and a comparison-treatment (I Can Problem Solve). The proposed research is designed to (1) strengthen and extend the existing findings on the effectiveness of EBP as a preventive intervention for inner-city Head Start children; (2) examine more thoroughly the role of emotion knowledge as a causal mechanism in the development of emotion regulation; (3) further evaluate the role of emotion competence, defined in terms of emotion knowledge and emotion regulation, as a causal factor in the development of adaptive social behavior; and (4) evaluate the role of child temperament factors, mothers' emotion competence, level of maternal depressive symptoms, and contextual risk factors (single parent status, number of residential moves, and number of changes in partners) as causal factors in the development of children's emotion competence and social behavior. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: Because our previous longitudinal studies showed that emotion knowledge is a significant predictor of academic competence (measured by both teacher ratings and child assessment), we expect EBP to improve children's performance in school as well as their emotional and social adjustment. Improvement in Head Start parents' and children's emotion competence and social functioning is expected to have beneficial effects on the behavioral aspects of mental and physical health.

描述（由申请人提供）：以情绪为基础的预防计划（EBP），现在包含了一门针对父母和儿童的情绪课程，旨在增加情绪知识（理解情绪的表达，感觉状态和功能），情绪调节能力，以及适应性地使用情绪动机。导致EBP发展的研究表明，情绪知识和情绪调节与儿童适应行为的增加和适应不良行为的减少始终相关。初步研究表明，EBP能促进情绪知识的发展。这也为情绪知识促进情绪调节的发展提供了初步证据。反过来，从情绪知识和情绪调节两方面定义的情绪能力促进了社会能力的发展，并减少了经济弱势儿童的破坏性、攻击性和内化行为的流行。我们之前的研究也表明，父母参与EBP活动的数量有助于其对孩子的有益影响，并启发了在EBP中增加情感课程父母。我们将随机将开端中心分为ebp治疗和比较治疗（我能解决问题）。本研究的目的是：(1)加强和扩展现有的研究结果，即EBP作为一种预防干预措施的有效性；(2)更深入地考察了情绪知识在情绪调节发展中的因果机制作用；(3)进一步评价情绪能力（以情绪知识和情绪调节为定义）在适应性社会行为发展中的因果作用；(4)评价儿童气质因素、母亲情绪能力、母亲抑郁症状水平和情境危险因素（单亲状况、迁居次数、伴侣变动次数）在儿童情绪能力和社会行为发展中的因果作用。公共健康相关性：由于我们之前的纵向研究表明情绪知识是学术能力的重要预测因子（通过教师评分和儿童评估来衡量），我们期望EBP能够改善儿童在学校的表现以及他们的情绪和社会适应。改善父母和儿童的情绪能力和社会功能，有望对心理和身体健康的行为方面产生有益的影响。