FRIENDSHIP FORMATION AMONG CHILDREN

为一项为期两年的纵向跟踪研究寻求资金， 继续进行数据分析，以检验关于 儿童同伴互动使用的变量包括 家庭背景下的情感和心理生理学。本研究 还试图确定婚姻冲突之间的联系， 亲子互动、儿童同伴互动与儿童 年轻男孩和女孩的行为问题。60个家庭，有4- 5岁的孩子，他们的婚姻满意度各不相同 参与了1985-86年对婚姻、亲子和同伴的研究 互动。这项研究最初的重点是友谊 儿童的形成和情绪发展。这一关注点是 在前一个项目期间进行的研究中得到维护 时期，随着使用自然主义的进一步扩大 家庭环境中的互动以及儿童内部的互动 同级系统。这项研究的一个中心构思是 情绪调节。这项研究使用了多种方法 建立同步视频数据库的测量策略 和自动调节数据。拟议的调查将进行两项- 对这些家庭进行了三年的随访，并对各种儿童 将对结果进行评估，包括社交(同伴互动)、 家长和老师的认知和行为配给。续 1986年观测与生理学的编码与分析 数据也将被进行，这些变量将被用于 预测孩子的社交能力和学习成绩 后续行动。这项拟议的研究基于参考的一种理论 作为社会DPA理论，它提出了一个生理基础(弥漫 生理唤醒)，用于将婚姻不和转移到 那个孩子。有人提出，情绪调节的能力在 4-5岁将与上门社交能力和其他 随访时的儿童结局。

Funding is sought for a two-year longitudinal follow-up study and continued data analysis to test a theory about the nature of children's peer interaction employing variables that involve emotion and psychophysiology within the family context. This study also sought to identify the linkages between marital conflict, parent-child interaction, children's peer interaction and child behavior problems in young boys and girls. Sixty families with 4- 5 year old children and who varied in marital satisfaction participated in a 1985-86 study of marital, parent-child and peer interaction. The initial focus of the research was on friendship formation and emotional development in children. This focus was maintained in the research conducted during the previous project period, with the added expansion of employing naturalistic interaction within the family context as well as within the child peer system. A central construct of the research is the notion of emotional regulation. This study utilized a multimethod measurement strategy to create a data base of synchronized video and autonimic data. The proposed investigation will conduct a two- to three-year followup on these families, and a variety of child outcomes will be assessed, including social (peer interaction), cognitive and behavioral parent and teacher rations. Continued coding and analysis of the 1986 observational and physiological data will also be conducted, and these variables will be used to predict the child's social competence and academic achievement at follow-up. The proposed research is based on a theory referred to as social DPA theory, which proposes a physiological basis (Diffuse Physiological Arousal, DPA) for the transfer of marital discord to the child. It is proposed that the ability to regulate emotion at age 4-5 will be associated with door social competence and other child outcomes at follow-up.