DEVELOPMENTALLY DISABLED ADULTS: BLACK & WHITE FAMILIES

描述：这项研究提出了一项横断面检查 非裔美国人和白人父母及其成年人的幸福感 发育障碍儿童。在家庭压力理论的指导下， 提出了三个模型：一个是家长S的心理模型 幸福感，预测成年人发育的幸福感的人 一本解释父母S的幸福感和残疾儿童之间的联系 孩子的幸福。链接父级和的模型的中心功能 孩子的幸福是亲子关系的本质。 这项为期四年的研究的具体目的是：1)探索 发育不全的成年子女对心理的影响 他们年迈母亲的幸福感；2)测试一个模型，在这个模型中，压力源 与成年子女有关，相互竞争的角色需求，个人资源， 社会资源、交换的质量和程度 母子关系和认知相结合预测母亲S 幸福感；3)确定个人资源、 母子关系和社会资源对成年子女的预测 儿童S幸福感；4)考察人际关系的本质 存在于发育障碍的成年子女和他们的年龄之间 母亲，并记录这些关系如何将 母子对彼此的幸福感；5)评估缓和 种族对压力源、资源、 知觉、母子关系与母子幸福感 6)对比与发育障碍者生活在一起的影响 成年子女会对父亲的心理健康产生影响 它对他们母亲的影响；以及7)测试一个模型，在这个模型中，压力源 与成年子女有关，父亲S生活中相互竞争的角色需求， 个人资源、社会资源、交换的质量和程度 刻画父子关系，以及父亲S对 与孩子相关的情况加在一起，可以预测父亲S的幸福。

DESCRIPTION: This research proposes a cross-sectional examination of the well-being of African-American and White parents and their adult developmentally disabled children. Guided by theories of family stress, three models are proposed: one focusing on parent s psychological well-being, one predicting the well-being of the adult developmentally disabled child, and one explaining the link between parent s well-being and child's well-being. The central feature of the model which links parent and child well-being is the nature of the parent-child relationship. The specific aims of the four-year study are to: 1) Explore the effects which developmentally disabled adult children have on the psychological well-being of their aging mothers; 2) Test a model in which stressors related to the adult child, competing role demands, personal resources, social resources, the quality and extent of exchange characterizing the mother-child relationship, and perceptions combine to predict mother s well-being; 3) Identify the ways in which personal resources, the mother-child relationship, and social resources of the adult child predict child s well-being; 4) Examine the nature of the interpersonal relationships which exist between developmentally disabled adult children and their aging mothers, and document the ways in which these relationships link the well-being of mother and child to one another; 5) Assess the moderating effects which race has on the relationships between stressors, resources, perceptions, mother-child relationship, and well-being of mother and adult child; 6) Contrast the effects that living with a developmentally disabled adult child has on the psychological well-being of their fathers with the effects that it has on their mothers; and 7) Test a model in which stressors related to the adult child, competing role demands in the father s life, personal resources, social resources, the quality and extent of exchange characterizing the father-child relationship, and father s perceptions of the situation vis-a-vis the child combine to predict father s well-being.