Investigation into meta-parenting

描述（由申请人提供）： 元亲职是指父母在亲子互动之前或之后对子女教养领域的思考。虽然父母的元认知的一些组成部分已经研究过，元养育，作为一个综合的结构，没有。有人建议，该结构是由四个组成部分：预期，评估，解决问题，并反映。这个为期两年的项目有三个目标：1）评估母亲和父亲的元养育的发生和性质; 2）改进和调查一个新的问卷设计，以评估元养育（元养育档案问卷，MPPQ）的心理测量学特性;和3）测试八个初步假设的结构。这些假设涉及元养育的决定因素（例如，父母的年龄和性别、教育、压力）和一个结果-亲子关系的质量。本研究对2 ~ 12岁儿童的父母进行了元亲职的横断面调查。参与者将是180名母亲和90名父亲。参与者将来自三个种族/族裔群体：非洲裔美国人，墨西哥裔美国人和欧洲裔美国人。母亲们将填写一系列问卷，然后接受采访。三周后，母亲们将再次完成MPPQ。家长也要填写MPPQ。拟议的研究将提供一个严格的初步测试的结构，以及奠定了基础，为未来的调查这一重要的，但在很大程度上未被承认的方面，父母的社会认知。反过来，这个结构应该帮助调查人员更好地了解育儿社会认知过程，育儿行为和有效育儿的本质。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Meta-parenting is defined as parental thoughts concerning the child-rearing domain that typically occur before or after parent-child interactions. Although some components of parental meta-cognition have been studied previously, meta-parenting, as a synthetic construct, has not. It is proposed that the construct is comprised of four components: anticipating, assessing, problem-solving, and reflecting. This two-year project has three goals: 1) to assess the occurrence and nature of meta-parenting in mothers and fathers; 2) to refine and investigate the psychometric properties of a new questionnaire designed to assess meta-parenting (The Meta-Parenting Profile Questionnaire, MPPQ); and 3) to test eight initial hypotheses about the construct. These hypotheses concern the determinants of meta-parenting (e.g., parental age and gender, education, stress) and one outcome--the quality of parent-child relationship. The proposed study consists of a cross-sectional investigation of meta-parenting in mothers and fathers of children aged 2 through 12. Participants will be 180 mothers and 90 fathers. The participants will be from three racial/ethnic groups: African-American, Mexican-American, and Euro-American. Mothers will fill out a series of questionnaires and then be interviewed. Three weeks later mothers will again complete the MPPQ. Fathers will also fill out the MPPQ. The proposed study will provide a rigorous initial test of the construct as well as lay the foundation for future investigations into this important but largely unrecognized aspect of parental social cognition. In turn, this construct should help investigators better understand parenting social cognition processes, child-rearing behavior, and the nature of effective parenting.