Parent & Relational Predictors of Conduct Problems &n Callous/Unemotional Traits

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• 批准号: 8112214
• 负责人: William Roger Mills-Koonce
• 金额: $ 7.4万
• 依托单位: UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2011
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2011-04-01 至 2013-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8112214
• 关键词: 3 year old; Address; Adolescence; Adult; Affective; Age; Behavior; Behavioral; Biological; Caregivers; Child; Child Behavior; Child Care; Childhood; Code; Cognitive; Communication; Complement; Data; Data Analyses; Data Set; Development; Dimensions; Economics; Emotional; Etiology; Exhibits; Family; Goals; Heterogeneity; Intervention; Investigation; Joints; Life; Maternal Behavior; Measurement; Measures; Modeling; National Institute of Child Health and Human Development; Outcome; Parent-Child Relations; Parenting behavior; Parents; Pattern; Plant Roots; Predisposition; Process; Public Health; Punishment; Reporting; Research; Resources; Risk; Risk Factors; Sample Size; Sampling; Secondary to; Source; Subgroup; Testing; Time; Training; Variant; Violence; Work; Youth; anti social; base; callous unemotional trait; caregiving; cost; cost efficient; critical developmental period; early childhood; early experience; early onset; experience; improved; infancy; life course persistent; novel; parental role; psychopathic personality; psychosocial; trait

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Antisocial adults exhibit a life-course persistent pattern of conduct problems (CP) with roots in early childhood, including evidence for precursors dating to infancy. A specific aspects of psychopathy, namely callous and unemotional (CU) traits, has been identified as an additional risk factor for young children with conduct problems. Children with conduct problems and CU traits (CP+CU) differ from those without CU traits on behavioral, emotional, biological, cognitive, and developmental measures. Furthermore, children with CP+CU typically exhibit more severe and violent antisocial behavior that is more like to persist over time. The etiology of CU and CP+CU, however, is still relatively unknown. Whereas negative parenting is an established risk factor for the development of CP, the roles of parenting and early relational experience is less understood for children with CU. In addition, although there has been research on early attachment quality and later CP, to date there has been no large-scale investigation of early attachment and later CU or CP+CU, despite evidence that disorganized attachment quality is a risk factor for maladaptive behavioral outcomes well into adolescence and adulthood. This proposal is unique from previous research in two important domains. First, this proposal will utilize observed measures of parenting and attachment, including normative variations in parenting (maternal insensitivity), non-normative parenting (atypical caregiving), and observed attachment quality from the Strange Situation Paradigm. Previous studies examining CP, CU, and CP+CU have largely relied on parent-report of caregiving behaviors. Second, to our knowledge this would be one of the first studies to examine caregiving and relational antecedents of CU and CP+CU during the first years of life. This is a critical developmental period for the acquisition of self-regulatory and empathetic functioning, deficits of which have been associated with CP, CU, and CP+CU. In this proposal we argue that unique dimensions of parenting behavior and early attachment relationships may differentially predict children with CP, CU and CP+CU from normative controls. These hypotheses include main effects for maternal insensitivity, atypical parenting, and attachment quality, as well as the prediction that attachment insecurity may result in heightened child susceptibility to the effects of insensitivity and atypical parenting, rendering children from these caregiving and attachment backgrounds most vulnerable for later CP, CU and CP+CU. To test these hypotheses we will utilize the longitudinal dataset on maternal sensitivity, attachment quality, and child behavior outcomes provided by the NICHD Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development (SECCYD). In addition to secondary data analyses, we will recode a subsample of SECCYD parent-child interactions for coding atypical maternal behaviors. The SECCYD is one of the few studies with longitudinal data and a sample size large enough to test these hypotheses. Furthermore, because this proposal focuses largely on secondary data analyses, it is a cost efficient means of addressing questions of significant scientific and societal importance. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: The proposed project aims to better understand the origins of early child conduct problems and callous and emotional traits by examining early parenting behaviors and parent-child attachment quality during the first year of life as predictors of behavioral outcomes at age 3. The goal of this research is to better understand how family factors contribute to disruptive and maladaptive behaviors in young children, behaviors which may persist into later childhood, adolescence and even adulthood. This is a novel study because it is one of the first to examine this subgroup of children during infancy, and is the first to examine the independent and joint effects of parenting and attachment quality on later conduct problems and callous and unemotional traits.

描述（由申请人提供）：反社会成年人表现出生命过程的行为问题（CP），其根源是童年时期的根源，其中包括预示着可追溯到婴儿期的前体的证据。精神病的一个特定方面，即冷酷无情的（CU）特征，已被确定为有行为问题的幼儿的额外危险因素。具有行为问题和CU性状（CP+CU）的儿童与没有CU性状的儿童在行为，情感，生物学，认知和发育措施方面不同。此外，患有CP+CU的儿童通常表现出更严重和剧烈的反社会行为，随着时间的流逝更像是持续存在的。但是，CU和CP+Cu的病因仍然相对尚不清楚。负面的育儿是CP发展的确定危险因素，但对于CU儿童而言，育儿和早期关系经验的作用较少。此外，尽管已经对早期依恋质量和后来的CP进行了研究，但迄今为止，尚无对早期依恋的大规模研究，后来又有CU或CP+Cu，尽管有证据表明杂乱无章的依恋质量是适应性行为结果的风险因素，这是对青少年和崇拜的疾病。该提案是在两个重要领域的先前研究中独有的。首先，该提案将利用观察到的育儿和依恋度量，包括育儿（母亲不敏感），非规范育儿（非典型护理）的规范性变化以及奇怪情况范式中观察到的依恋质量。先前检查CP，CU和CP+CU的研究主要依赖于护理行为的父母报告。其次，据我们所知，这将是最早研究Cu和Cp+Cu在生命的第一年的护理和关系前提的研究之一。这是获取自我调节和移情功能的关键发育时期，其缺陷与CP，CU和CP+CU有关。在此提案中，我们认为，育儿行为和早期依恋关系的独特维度可能会从规范控制中差异地预测CP，CU和CP+CU的儿童。这些假设包括对母亲不敏感，非典型育儿和依恋质量的主要影响，以及依恋不安全感可能会导致儿童对不敏感性和非典型育儿影响的敏感性增强，从而使这些护理和依恋背景使后来的CP，CP，CP，CU，CU和CP+CU最易受伤害。为了检验这些假设，我们将利用纵向数据集来实现孕产妇的敏感性，依恋质量以及儿童行为成果，该研究由NICHD对幼儿保育和青年发展（SECCYD）进行。除了辅助数据分析外，我们还将重新编码用于编码非典型母体行为的SECCYD亲子相互作用的子样本。 SECCYD是为数不多的具有纵向数据的研究之一，并且样本量足以检验这些假设。此外，由于该提案主要集中在二级数据分析上，因此它是一种经济高效的方法，可以解决具有重要的科学和社会重要性问题。 公共卫生相关性：拟议的项目旨在通过检查早期的早期育儿行为和父母的依恋质量来更好地理解早期儿童行为问题以及冷酷无情的情感特征的起源，作为生命的第一年，作为3岁年龄段行为成果的预测因素。这项研究的目的是更好地了解家庭因素如何促进家庭因素，使年轻儿童的行为能够造成损害和疾病的行为。成年。这是一项新颖的研究，因为它是第一个在婴儿期检查这一子群体的研究之一，并且是第一个研究育儿和依恋质量对以后的行为问题以及冷酷无情的性状的独立和关节影响的研究。