SOCIAL POWER AS A REGULATOR OF CAREGIVING SYSTEMS

描述（改编自申请人摘要）：拟议的研究， 运用社会心理学的概念和理论， 关于造成家庭暴力风险的因素的假设， 其他功能失调的症状。 父母和孩子 互动和处理社会信息预计将受到影响 人际权力感知。 父母认为孩子是 拥有比自我更多的社会权力的人， 面对孩子们明显的“挑战”， 和防御性唤起 这些反应，反过来，调解（a） 信息处理缺陷和偏见，以及（B）防御性互动 战略，例如，权力主张或社会贬损。 成人“权力 “修复”的努力随后导致唤醒，回避 反应和表现缺陷。 预测在研究中进行了测试，包括自然主义和 实验性的、横截面和纵向设计。 研究一 着重于高功率和低功率成年人的信息处理模式 试图教有反应的孩子和无反应的孩子。 研究B 重点关注高权力和低权力父母之间的自发互动 还有他们自己的孩子 研究C关注父母之间的互动 和孩子们的性唤起 研究D评估了 反应（情绪，行为和认知）的儿童对 低感知能力的成人教学风格。 研究E探讨了 在多大程度上，感知到的社会权力代表了一种长期的- 可访问模式，即，社会威胁思维是非常容易获得的， 那些自我感知能力低的人。 研究F探讨了长期的 父母权力认知的后遗症 作为社区虐待的一部分 预防工作，孕妇的权力观念将被评估 在孩子出生前， 儿童出生时将接受评估。 今后的虐待或 强制性专利将被评估为对父母的综合功能， 权力知觉和儿童气质特征。

DESCRIPTION (Adapted from applicant's abstract): The proposed research, using concepts and theories drawn from social psychology, tests hypotheses regarding factors that create risk for family violence and other dysfunctional caregiving. The ways in which parents and children interact and process social information are expected to be influenced by interpersonal power perceptions. Parents who perceive children as having more social power than self are predicted to be highly reactive to apparent "challenge" from children responding with negative affect and defensive arousal. These responses, in turn, mediate (a) information-processing deficits and biases, and (b) defensive interaction strategies, e.g., power assertion or social derogation. Adult "power repair" efforts subsequently lead to elevated arousal, avoidant responses, and performance deficits in children. Predictions are tested within studies that include both naturalistic and experimental, and cross-sectional and longitudinal designs. Study a focuses on information-processing patterns of high and low power adults attempting to teach responsive versus unresponsive children. Study B focuses on spontaneous interaction between high and low power parents and their own children. Study C focuses on interaction between parents and children following an arousal manipulation. Study D assesses the responses (emotional, behavioral, and cognitive) of children to the teaching style of adults with low perceived power. Study E explores the extent to which perceived social power represents a chronically- accessible schema, i.e., social threat ideation is highly accessible for those with low self-perceived power. Study F explores the long-term sequelae of parental power perceptions. As part of a community abuse prevention effort, power perceptions of pregnant women will be assessed before the birth of the child, and temperament characteristics of children will be assessed at birth. Future instances of abusive or coercive patenting will be assessed as a combined function on parental power perceptions and child temperament characteristics.