Explaining variability in children’s aggressive behaviors after a family change

解释家庭变化后儿童攻击性行为的变化

• 批准号: 9224486
• 负责人: Elizabeth Fein Karberg
• 金额: $ 8.15万
• 依托单位: CHILD TRENDS, INC.
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2017
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2017-08-11 至 2019-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/9224486
• 关键词: 16 year old; 5 year old; 9 year old; Address; Adolescence; Aggressive behavior; Attention; Basic Science; Behavior; Birth; Child; Child Development; Child Rearing; Childhood; Couples; Data; Demography; Development; Divorce; Economic Factors; Economics; Employment; Equation; Exhibits; Face; Family; Fathers; Friendships; Goals; Household; Income; Intervention; Learning; Life; Link; Literature; Low income; Marital Status; Marriage; Measures; Modeling; Mothers; Outcome; Parents; Perception; Policy Maker; Problem behavior; Public Health; Reporting; Research; Research Personnel; Resources; Sampling; Schools; Shapes; Social Adjustment; Stress; System; Testing; Time; Toddler; United Kingdom; United States; Unmarried; Work; cohort; early childhood; fatherhood; fighting; improved; middle childhood; programs; social; theories

Summary/Abstract The proposed research seeks to examine differences in children’s aggressive behavior problems (ABP) following a change in family composition (e.g., divorce), what explains these differences, and whether these explanations differ by marital status. ABP in children, such as picking fights, are of increasing concern to practitioners and researchers because when ABP persist past the toddler years, children have more difficulty learning in school, forming long- lasting friendships, and maintaining employment later in life. There is correlational research that suggests that family composition is associated with children’s aggressive behaviors; nonmarital and unstable families (e.g., who have had a change in family composition) tend to have children with more aggressive behavior problems than married, stable families. However, questions remain about the mechanisms behind this association that might account for variability in children’s outcomes and across studies. To address this gap, we propose a study with the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing data. Using a structural equation model framework, we will test whether changes in family functioning (co-parenting support, father involvement) and economic stress (income, perceptions of economic hardship) explain why changes in family composition are associated with changes in aggressive behavior, and whether there are group differences by marital status. Understanding the consequences of changes in family composition and possible points of intervention will improve program efforts and child wellbeing. One ultimate goal of healthy marriage/relationship and responsible fatherhood programming is to help couples become more stable – both financially and in terms of their relationships – to ultimately improve child wellbeing. Thus, studies that seek to understand the healthy relationship and responsible fatherhood associations with economic stability, family functioning, and child wellbeing help address these important public health concerns.

摘要/摘要 这项拟议的研究试图检验儿童攻击行为的差异 家庭结构发生变化后的问题(如离婚)，如何解释这些问题 差异，以及这些解释是否因婚姻状况而不同。儿童的ABP，如 挑拨离间，越来越受到从业者和研究人员的关注，因为当总部基地 坚持过了蹒跚学步的年龄段，孩子们在学校学习上有更多的困难，形成了长时间的 持久的友谊，并在以后的生活中维持工作。有相关研究表明 暗示家庭组成与孩子的攻击行为有关；非婚的 而不稳定的家庭(例如，家庭结构发生变化的家庭)往往会有孩子 比稳定的已婚家庭有更多的攻击性行为问题。然而，问题是 关于这种关联背后的机制可能解释了 儿童的结果和跨研究。为了解决这一差距，我们建议与 脆弱家庭和儿童福祉数据。使用结构方程模型框架，我们将 测试家庭功能是否发生变化(共同育儿支持、父亲参与)和 经济压力(收入、对经济困难的看法)解释了为什么家庭的变化 组成与攻击性行为的变化有关，以及是否存在群体 不同婚姻状况的差异。理解家庭变化的后果 构成和可能的干预点将改善方案的努力和儿童的福祉。 健康婚姻/关系和负责任的父亲规划的一个最终目标是 帮助夫妻变得更加稳定--无论是在经济上还是在关系上-- 最终改善儿童的福祉。因此，试图了解健康的 关系和负责任的父亲与经济稳定、家庭功能、 和儿童福祉有助于解决这些重要的公共卫生问题。