Neurophysiological Predictors of Child Emotion Regulation

描述（由申请人提供）：情绪调节涉及修改情绪以满足目标和管理唤醒，并且是能力和精神病理学的重要预测因子。情绪调节与认知控制和情感风格的个体差异有关，但由于定义混乱和缺乏实证支持，目前尚不清楚它们如何相互作用，影响儿童的情绪调节和调整。结合神经生理学和行为测量的研究可能有助于澄清结构之间的区别，并为直接测试这个问题奠定基础。八年来，申请人特雷西·丹尼斯博士，运用行为学方法研究儿童情绪调节。这个K01应用程序提出了本研究下一步所需的培训，使用神经生理学测量，脑电图（EEG）不对称性和事件相关脑电位（ERP），以检查情绪调节的预测因素和精神病理学的途径。短期目标包括发展电生理记录方法的知识，并检查这些措施与观察到的认知控制，情感风格和情绪调节。具体的研究目的是：（1）评估ERP和EEG不对称性分别作为观察到的认知控制和情感风格的标记的结构效度;（2）检查这些措施是否共同预测观察到的情绪调节和调整措施。长期目标包括增加情绪调节作为精神病理学机制的知识。拟议的培训计划是至关重要的候选人的过渡到独立的神经生理学研究，提供EEG/ERP记录技术和数据分析所需的技能。拟议的研究计划将评估与临床相关的情绪调节模型，并将导致涉及与焦虑和情绪障碍相关的情绪调节神经生理过程的R01提案。研究将在亨特学院心理学系进行。神经生理学、儿童发育、情绪调节和精神病理学方面的专家将担任导师和顾问。这项研究与公共卫生有关，因为它有可能提高对情绪和心理障碍之间联系的认识。这反过来又可以提高我们制定更有针对性和更有效的预防和治疗心理障碍计划的能力。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Emotion regulation involves modifying emotions to meet goals and manage arousal, and is an important predictor of competence and psychopathology. Emotion regulation is linked to individual differences in cognitive control and affective style, but due to definitional confusion and a paucity of empirical support, it remains unclear how they interact to influence emotion regulation and adjustment in children. Research that combines neurophysiological and behavioral measures may help clarify distinctions among constructs and set the stage for a direct test of this question. For eight years, the applicant, Dr. Tracy Dennis, Ph.D., has used behavioral methods to study child emotion regulation. This K01 application proposes training that is necessary for the next step in this research, using neurophysiological measures, electroencephalography (EEG) asymmetries and event-related brain potentials (ERPs), to examine predictors of emotion regulation and pathways to psychopathology. Short-term goals involve developing knowledge of electrophysiological recording methods, and examining these measures in relation to observed cognitive control, affective style, and emotion regulation. The specific research aims are to: (1) assess the construct validity of ERPs and EEG asymmetries as markers for observed cognitive control and affective style, respectively; and (2) examine whether these measures conjointly predict observed emotion regulation and measures of adjustment. Long-term goals involve augmenting knowledge of emotion regulation as a mechanism in psychopathology. The proposed training plan is critical to the candidate's transition to independent neurophysiological research, providing needed skills in EEG/ERP recording techniques and data analysis. The proposed research plan will assess a model of emotion regulation that is clinically relevant, and will lead to an R01 proposal involving neurophysiological processes in emotion regulation associated with anxiety and mood disorders. Research will be conducted at the Hunter College Department of Psychology. Researchers who are expert in neurophysiology, child development, emotion regulation, and psychopathology will serve as mentors and consultants. The proposed research is relevant to public health because it has the potential to improve knowledge of the links between emotion and psychological disorders. This, in turn, can improve our ability to create more targeted and effective programs to prevent and treat psychological disorders.