MARITAL DISCORD, PARENTING & CHILD EMOTIONAL DEVELOPMENT

拟议调查的重点问题是 确定婚姻冲突的联系过程 to child儿童behavior行为problems问题of young年轻boys男孩and girls女孩. 一 提出了一种多方法测量策略， 创建同步视频和自主数据的数据库， 婚姻满意度各不相同的家庭 拟定研究 纵向; 120个家庭将被跟踪5至7年 学龄前儿童的生活。 各种儿童结局 将进行评估，包括认知，社会（同伴互动）， 行为（家长和教师评分）。 这项研究是基于一个 社会DPA理论; DPA指的是 结构，弥散性生理唤醒。 拟议 调查旨在促进两个领域的心理 文学：（1）婚姻不和从婚姻转移到 亲子系统和同伴系统;（2）情绪发展 在学龄前儿童中。 本研究将采用两阶段 抽样程序 第一阶段将开始， 有学龄前儿童的完整家庭相对较多， 然后筛选不同程度的婚姻满意度。 阶段 二是对婚姻状况高的家庭进行进一步分类， 不和谐到那些谁做和不转移负面影响 从婚姻关系到亲子关系 的 确定是否已发生转移将使用 一个在线编码器，他将编码负，正， 和中性情感在婚姻和亲子互动 sessions. 实验设计将是3x 2设计，其中一个 一个因素是儿童性别（男性，女性），另一个因素是 家庭分类。 家庭将被分为三个 （1）高婚姻满意度，（2）低婚姻满意度 （3）不把婚姻不和传给子女;（4）低 婚姻满意度和婚姻不和谐转移到孩子。

The focal problem of the proposed investigation is the identification of the processes by which marital conflict is linked to child behavior problems of young boys and girls. A multimethod measurement strategy is proposed which would create a data base of synchronized video and autonomic data from families who vary in marital satisfaction. The proposed study is longitudinal; 120 families will be followed from the 5 to 7 year period of their preschool child's life. A variety of child outcomes will be assessed, including cognitive, social (peer interaction), and behavioral (parent and teacher ratings). The study is based on a theory referred to as social DPA theory; DPA refers to a construct, Diffuse Physiological Arousal. The proposed investigation seeks to contribute to two areas of the psychological literature: (1) the transfer of marital discord from the marital to the parent-child and peer systems, and (2) emotional development in preschool children. This study will employ a two-stage sampling procedure. Stage One will begin by recruiting a relatively large pool of intact families with a preschool child, and then screen for different levels of marital satisfaction. Stage Two involves a further classification of families high in marital discord into those who do and do not transfer negative affect from the marital to the parent/child interaction. The determination of whether transfer has occurred will be done using an on-line coder, who will code the amount of negative, positive and neutral affect during the marital and parent-child interaction sessions. The experimental design will be a 3 x 2 design, with one factor being Child Gender (Male, Female) and the other factor being Family Classification. Families will be classified into three groups: (1) High Marital Satisfaction, (2) Low Marital Satisfaction and No Transfer of Marital Discord to the child, and (3) Low Marital Satisfaction and Transfer of Marital Discord to the child.