MAINTENANCE OF CLOSE DYADIC RELATIONSHIPS

这是一份研究科学家奖的竞争性续签申请。 纵向研究由两个主题描述：L)婚姻是如何变化的， 这将涉及对婚姻解体的途径进行建模，并 疾病和免疫抑制；以及2)将婚姻不和转移到 儿童，这将涉及三元组的数学建模 互动(母亲-父亲-婴儿)，对婴儿质量的预测 来自新婚婚姻互动的育儿方式与孩子的预测 情绪调节能力与儿童结局。父母的“元-- 《情绪》的结构被认为是主要的中介变量 婚姻过程、亲子过程和子女结局。 我们将研究儿童的认知和情绪发展 发展。在第一时间对120对新婚夫妇的婚姻进行了研究 使用多种方法收集生理数据 与行为编码同步的交互和连续的自我 知觉情感的报告测量；访谈和问卷数据 也收集了。基于观察编码和调查问卷数据， 这些夫妇中的50对被确定为婚姻风险的连续统一体 分手(基于之前的研究)和这50对夫妇 参加了在公寓实验室的24小时逗留 获得了自主神经、内分泌和免疫学数据以及 持续记录婚姻互动。所有120对情侣都是 在过渡到为人父母的过程中被跟踪，这包括 怀孕期间的婚姻和其他评估以及婚姻和 当婴儿3个月大时，亲子互动(和生理)， 在菲瓦兹手术之后。儿童在成长过程中将受到跟踪。 (与候选人之前的研究一样)，其中孩子的结果包括 同伴社交能力、行为问题(如父母和 教师)、儿童学业成绩(控制智商)和健康。

This is a competitive renewal application for a Research Scientist Award. Longitudinal research is described by 2 themes: l) How marriages change, which will involve modeling pathways to marital dissolution and to illness and immunosuppression; and 2) the transfer of marital discord to children, which will involve the mathematical modeling of triadic interaction (mother-father-baby), the prediction of the quality of parenting from newlywed marital interaction, and the prediction of child emotion regulation abilities and child outcome. The parents' "meta- emotion" structure is posited as the major intervening variable in marital processes, parent-child processes, and child outcomes. Children's cognitive and emotional development will be studied as they develop. At Time-1 the marriages of 120 newlywed couples were studied using a multimethod approach that collected physiological data synchronized with behavioral coding of interaction and a continuous self- report measure of perceived affect; interview and questionnaire data were also collected. Based on observational coding and questionnaire data, 50 of these couples were identified along a continuum of risk for marital dissolution (based on previous research) and these 50 couples participated in a 24-hour stay in an apartment laboratory in which autonomic, endocrine and immunological data were obtained as well as continuous recording of the marital interaction. All 120 couples are being followed through the transition to parenthood, which includes marital and other assessments during the pregnancy period and marital and parent-child interaction (and physiology) when the baby is 3 months old, following the Fivaz procedure. Children will be followed as they develop (as in previous studies by the candidate) in which child outcomes include peer social competence, behavior problems (as seen by parents and teacher), child academic achievement (controlling IQ), and health.