Development of a culturally informed method of evaluating emotion socialization within Latino families

开发一种评估拉丁裔家庭情绪社会化的文化知情方法

• 批准号: 10698035
• 负责人: Carolyn A. Greene
• 金额: $ 21.33万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT SCH OF MED/DNT
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2022-09-06 至 2024-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10698035
• 关键词: Acculturation; Address; Adolescent; Adverse event; African American; Age; American; Area; Assessment tool; Behavior; Behavior Therapy; Belief; Binding; Caregivers; Child; Child Abuse and Neglect; Child Rearing; Conflict (Psychology); Development; Educational process of instructing; Emotional; Emotions; European; Family; Focus Groups; Hand; Individual; Intervention; Knowledge; Language; Latino; Left; Linguistics; Measures; Mental Health; Methods; Mexican; Modeling; Mood Disorders; Outcome; Parents; Population Heterogeneity; Process; Psychopathology; Puerto Rican; Regulation; Research; Risk; Risk Factors; Sampling; Shapes; Socialization; Structure; Surveys; Symptoms; Testing; Translating; Validity and Reliability; Variant; Youth; base; behavioral outcome; boys; design; disparity reduction; emotion dysregulation; emotion regulation; emotional experience; emotional functioning; expectation; experience; externalizing behavior; girls; improved; maltreatment; promote resilience; psychological outcomes; psychosocial; response; risk mitigation; skills; social culture; tool; violence exposure

PROJECT SUMMARY Adaptive emotion regulation skills can help to promote resilience in children by mitigating the risk for psychopathology associated with a range of risk factors including parental mental health problems, childhood maltreatment, and violence exposure. Importantly, Latino children and youth are at an increased risk for mood disorders yet less likely to receive treatment, as compared to European American youth, with more than a million Latino youth suffering in 2019, only 37% of whom received treatment. Supporting the development of adaptive emotion regulation skills may be one way to reduce these disparities. However, Latino families are rarely included in research on children’s socioemotional development, and therefore may be left behind from the advances in interventions in this area. A primary means by which children develop adaptive emotion regulation skills is from their parents’ use of emotion socialization parenting behaviors (ESPBs), including parents’ modeling of their own emotional responses, direct teaching about emotions and regulation skills, and responses to their children’s emotional displays. ESPBs are related to emotional functioning and psychosocial outcomes in children of all ages and thus can be an important target for intervention. However, most of what we know about these parenting behaviors is based upon research conducted predominantly with European American samples. There is reason to believe that Latino parents’ ESPBs may differ from those of European American parents because parents possess culturally-influenced beliefs about emotions that guide their response to and shaping of their children’s emotional experience, expression, and regulation. Yet very little is known about ESPBs in Latino families. The current study aims to expand our understanding of emotion socialization processes in Latino families and generate a culturally informed measure for assessing them that can be used to evaluate the impact of interventions on parenting and ensuing child outcomes. We propose to utilize an exploratory mixed methods design to deepen our understanding of ESPBs among Latino families and establish a culturally informed and linguistically valid method for assessing them. Qualitative and quantitative methods will be used to improve our ability to validly evaluate ESPBs and their impact on Latino children (ages 6-12). Specifically, this study will pursue three aims: (1) Strengthen our understanding of ESPBs among Latino parents utilizing focus groups with 48 Latino parents to enhance our knowledge. This information will inform an adaptation of an existing widely used assessment tool, the EAC (with support of its authors) which will be carefully translated into two Spanish-language versions appropriate for use by individuals of Mexican or Puerto Rican origin; (2) Examine the factor structure and test the reliability of the modified EAC via an on-line national survey of parents of Mexican or Puerto Rican origin; and (3) Establish the convergent validity of the modified EAC. With this tool in hand, we can more sensitively develop and evaluate ESPB interventions for Latino families.

项目摘要 适应性情绪调节技能可以通过减轻风险来帮助促进儿童的韧性 与一系列风险因素有关的心理病理学，包括父母心理健康问题，童年 虐待和暴力暴露。重要的是，拉丁裔儿童和青少年的情绪风险增加 与欧美青年相比，疾病却不太可能接受治疗 2019年，百万拉丁裔青年遭受痛苦，只有37％接受治疗。支持发展 自适应情绪调节技能可能是减少这些差异的一种方法。但是，拉丁裔家庭是 很少包括在儿童社会情感发展的研究中，因此可能会出现 该领域的干预措施的进步。儿童发展自适应情绪的主要手段 监管技能来自父母对情感社会化育儿行为（ESPB）的使用，包括 父母对自己的情感反应建模，直接关于情绪和调节技能的教学以及 对孩子的情感展示的回应。 ESPB与情感功能和社会心理有关 因此，各个年龄段的儿童的结果可能是干预的重要目标。但是，大多数 我们知道这些育儿行为是基于与欧洲进行的研究 美国样品。有理由相信拉丁裔父母的ESPB可能与欧洲的ESPB有所不同 美国父母是因为父母对引导他们的情感的文化信念具有文化影响 对孩子的情感经历，表达和调节的反应和塑造。但是很少 关于拉丁裔家庭中的ESPBS。当前的研究旨在扩大我们对情绪的理解 拉丁裔家庭中的社会化过程，并产生一个文化知情的测量，以评估他们 可以用来评估干预措施对育儿和随后的儿童结果的影响。我们建议 利用探索性混合方法设计来加深我们对拉丁裔家庭和 建立一种文化知情和语言上有效的评估方法。定性和定量 方法将用于提高我们有效评估ESPB及其对拉丁裔儿童（年龄）的影响的能力 6-12）。特别是，这项研究将追求三个目标：（1）加强我们对拉丁裔的ESPB的理解 父母使用焦点小组与48位拉丁裔父母一起增强我们的知识。此信息将告知 改编现有广泛使用的评估工具，EAC（在作者的支持下），这将是 小心地翻译成两个西班牙语版本，适合墨西哥人或波多黎各个人使用 里坎的起源； （2）检查因子结构并通过在线国家 /地区测试修改后的EAC的可靠性 对墨西哥或波多黎各起源的父母的调查； （3）建立修改后的收敛有效性 EAC。借助此工具，我们可以更敏感地开发和评估Latino的ESPB干预措施 家庭。