ANTISOCIAL CHILDREN: MARITAL & PHYSIOLOGICAL PROCESSES

目前的建议将测试一个以家庭为基础的情绪调节模型的连续性，在儿童期的反社会行为，从学前到中期的童年。 在一项研究中，将系统地应用对婚姻、亲子和儿童-同伴系统的观察评估以及对交感神经和副交感神经系统活动的生理评估，以检查与反社会行为的稳定性和变化相关的人际和自我危险因素。 先前招募的130个有学龄前儿童（4-5岁）的家庭样本将在9岁和10岁时再次进行。 还将增加95个家庭的新队列，在5岁、9岁和10岁时进行评估。 身体的婚姻攻击，个别父母的情绪调节能力，父母的技能赤字，父母的元情绪哲学，儿童的敏感性冲突，和儿童的生理调节能力将被提出作为理论测试的结构。 超警戒模型中，暴露于身体的婚姻侵略可能与超警戒威胁进行测试和机制的联系。 一个竞争模型，一个习惯化模型，其中身体的婚姻侵略与习惯的威胁，也进行了测试。 本研究还试图：（1）研究行为问题儿童从早期到中期的生理功能的发展变化;（2）测试以家庭为基础的情绪调节模型中的性别差异。

The present proposal will test a family-based emotion regulation model of continuity in childhood antisocial behavior from preschool to middle childhood. Observational assessments of marital, parent-child and child-peer systems and physiological assessments of sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous system activity will be systematically applied in one study to examine interpersonal and intrapersonal risk factors that are associated with stability and change in antisocial behavior. A previously recruited sample of 130 families with preschool aged children (4-5 years old) will be seen again at ages 9 and 10. A new cohort of 95 families will also be added, with assessments at age 5, 9 and 10. Physical marital aggression, individual parental emotion regulation abilities, parenting skill deficits, parental meta-emotion philosophy, children's sensitivity to conflict, and children's physiological regulatory ability will be proposed as constructs in theory testing. A hypervigilance model in which exposure to physical marital aggression may be associated with hypervigilance to threat is tested and mechanisms of linkage are articulated. A competing model, a habituation model in which physical marital aggression is associated with habituation to threat, is also tested. The present proposal also seeks to: (1) examine developmental changes in physiological functioning in conduct-problem children across the developmental period from early to middle childhood; and (2) test for gender differences in the family-based emotion regulation model.