A culturally informed model linking physiological stress regulation and behavioral and academic adjustment in Latinx children

将拉丁裔儿童的生理压力调节与行为和学业调整联系起来的文化知情模型

• 批准号: 10673891
• 负责人: CYNTHIA M SUVEG
• 金额: $ 62.21万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2022-08-01 至 2027-07-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10673891
• 关键词: Address; Adult; Behavior; Behavior assessment; Behavioral; Biological; Biology; Buffers; COVID-19 pandemic; Caregivers; Child; Child Rearing; Chronic; Climate; Cognitive; Data; Development; Discrimination; Disparity; Ensure; Face; Family; Fathers; Health; Hispanic Populations; Hydrocortisone; Informal Social Control; Intervention; Knowledge; Latina; Latinx; Latinx population; Legal Rights; Life Cycle Stages; Link; Methods; Modeling; Mothers; Neurobiology; Nursery Schools; Outcome; Parents; Patient Self-Report; Personal Satisfaction; Physiological; Physiology; Politics; Predisposition; Preschool Child; Process; Production; Productivity; Public Policy; Readiness; Recommendation; Reduce health disparities; Regulation; Research; Research Design; Research Personnel; Risk; School-Age Population; Schools; Science; Self Assessment; Sinus Arrhythmia; Skin; Social support; Stress; Supportive care; System; Time; United States National Institutes of Health; Work; Youth; behavior observation; behavioral health; biobehavior; biological adaptation to stress; caregiving; contextual factors; cultural values; disparity reduction; early childhood; ethnic identity; executive function; expectation; experience; health disparity; improved; indexing; kindergarten; longitudinal design; minority health; minority health disparity; modifiable risk; novel; peer; physical conditioning; prospective; respiratory; skills; social; stress management; stressor; theories; translational impact

Project Summary/Abstract Latinx children experience behavioral and physical health disparities early in development that persist into adulthood. Early in development, Latinx children are behind their peers in cognitive self-regulation (e.g., poor executive functions) and behavioral adjustment (e.g., low school readiness). It is not known how children’s physiological stress regulation (PSR) relates to disparities in young Latinx children or how Latinx caregivers can buffer their children from these negative outcomes. These are critical gaps in developmental science because Latinx families face persistent, uncontrollable stress that can lead to chronic activation of stress response systems that in turn, have negative cascading effects on behavior and biology. From a life course perspective, identifying malleable risk and protective processes in Latinx families during the early childhood years is critical for ensuring the long-term health and productivity of the large and growing U.S. Latinx population. To address these serious research gaps, we use a novel cultural neurobiological approach to prospectively examine culturally sensitive indicators of positive parenting and parents’ own physiological stress regulation (PSR) as buffers of the link between child physiological stress regulation and critical developmental outcomes in Latinx families. To increase the translational impact of the work we examine both cultural stressors and strengths related to parenting in Latinx mothers and fathers. We specifically assess behavioral and academic adjustment given that these developmental indices are at the forefront for young school age children and difficulties in these domains can presage long-term outcomes. We follow children from the preschool age into the kindergarten year because the former represents a critical time for the emergence of stress regulation skills and the latter because the adjustment to the school setting represents a critical developmental juncture. We put forth the following aims, which are directly in line with research recommendations endorsed by NIH for advancing minority health and reducing health disparities: Aim 1: Identify associations between PSR in Latinx preschoolers and behavioral and academic adjustment in kindergarten; Aim 2: Examine positive parenting and parent PSR as moderators of the link between Latinx preschoolers’ PSR and behavioral and academic adjustment; Aim 3: Identify contextual stressors that influence Latinx parents’ positive parenting and PSR and cultural strengths that protect against these stressors. We use a longitudinal design and a multimethod assessment (physiological assessments, behavioral observations, self-report) of key constructs. The results of this project will provide critical data on how Latinx children’s PSR is associated with later adjustment and identify malleable factors that can be leveraged into culturally informed intervention programming to reduce disparities and improve the health and overall well-being of Latinx families.

项目总结/摘要 拉丁裔儿童在发育早期经历了行为和身体健康方面的差异，这些差异持续到 成年在发展的早期，拉丁裔儿童在认知自我调节方面落后于同龄人（例如，贫困 执行功能）和行为调整（例如，入学准备不足）。不知道孩子们是如何 生理压力调节（PSR）与拉丁裔儿童的差异或拉丁裔照顾者如何 可以让他们的孩子免受这些负面影响。这些是发展科学中的关键空白 因为拉丁裔家庭面临着持续的、无法控制的压力，这可能导致压力的慢性激活， 反应系统，反过来，对行为和生物学产生负面的级联效应。从生命历程中 的观点，确定可塑性风险和保护过程中的拉丁家庭在幼儿期 对于确保大型和不断增长的美国拉丁美洲公司的长期健康和生产力至关重要 人口为了解决这些严重的研究空白，我们使用了一种新的文化神经生物学方法， 前瞻性地检查积极养育和父母自身生理压力的文化敏感指标 调节（PSR）作为儿童生理应激调节和关键发育之间联系的缓冲器 拉丁裔家庭的结果。为了增加作品的翻译影响力，我们考察了文化和语言两个方面。 压力和力量与拉丁裔母亲和父亲的养育有关。我们专门评估行为 和学术调整，因为这些发展指数在年轻的学龄儿童中处于前列 儿童和这些领域的困难可以预示长期的结果。我们跟随孩子们从 学龄前进入幼儿园一年，因为前者代表了一个关键的时间出现， 压力调节技能和后者，因为对学校环境的调整是一个关键的 发展的转折点。我们提出了以下目标，这些目标与研究直接一致 NIH认可的促进少数群体健康和减少健康差距的建议：目标1： 确定Latinx学龄前儿童PSR与行为和学术适应之间的关联， 幼儿园;目标2：检查积极的养育和父母PSR作为拉丁美洲之间联系的调节剂 目的3：识别影响学前儿童心理健康的情境压力源， 拉丁裔父母的积极育儿和PSR和文化优势，保护免受这些压力。我们使用 纵向设计和多方法评估（生理评估，行为观察， 自我报告）的关键结构。该项目的结果将提供关键数据，说明拉丁裔儿童的PSR 与后期调整相关，并确定可以利用的可塑性因素，以了解文化信息 制定干预方案，以减少差距，改善拉丁裔家庭的健康和整体福祉。