FAMILY FUNCTIONING IN STRESSED AND MALTREATING FAMILIES

这项研究的总体目标是为 在调查家庭因素如何影响儿童福祉的网络中， 反过来，某些社会干预如何与这些 影响儿童发展的因素，通过利用 儿童虐待和忽视纵向研究的现有数据集 (龙扫描)。龙山计划是一个队列研究联盟 审查虐待和社会服务干预对 随着时间的推移，儿童的功能水平。龙坎的参与将会 向NICHD财团提供以下方面的数据库和研究观点 该地区最大和最雄心勃勃的纵向努力是什么 虐待儿童罪。LONGSCAN项目正在识别 受到虐待或面临虐待风险的幼儿。 将重点放在这些高危家庭上将允许更密集的 对许多潜在风险因素和中介变量的检查 这会影响儿童的心理和社会结果。 这项研究的具体目的是：1)检查家庭的影响 结构、贫困、育儿态度、家庭满意度、配偶 儿童福祉方面的关系和社会服务干预 一组被认定为虐待儿童高危家庭， 2)在更广泛的家庭功能范围内界定哪些领域 最重要的是作为儿童幸福的调解人处于高风险中 虐待家庭，3)验证选定领域的重要性 在家庭功能的概念中，通过选择性 调查来自其他数据集的数据，4)从 NICHD财团挑战和协助个人龙扫 调查人员在各自的地点检查社会影响 通过纵向数据分析进行服务干预，以及5) 确定家庭度量的最佳度量或集合 在未来的研究和以后的数据点中使用的功能 在龙坎内部。 这项研究将包括三个阶段的合作方式 财团。在第一阶段中，现有的龙扫描横断面数据 将以病例对照的方式进行分析，以确定功能 与儿童福祉指标联系最密切的领域。同相 2研究将寻求来自其他NICHD的领域的验证 财团成员。在第三阶段，本研究小组将制定这样的 LONGSCAN使用的措施中适当的更改以捕获 被确定为与随后的儿童幸福最相关的领域。 最后，由于正在进行的数据收集过程中， 在我们参与NICHD财团期间，这项研究 将能够检查新工具之间的关系或 LONGSCAN以前用来评估家庭的领域和工具 功能正常。这最后一步很可能在完成 提议与NICHD财团合作五年。

This study's overall objective is to contribute to a collaborative network in investigating how family factors influence child-well being, and in turn how certain societal interventions can interact with these factors in influencing a child's development, by capitalizing on an existing dataset of The Longitudinal Studies in Child Abuse and Neglect (LONGSCAN). the LONGSCAN project is a consortium of cohort studies examining the impact of maltreatment and social service intervention on children's level of functioning over time. LONGSCAN's involvement would bring to the NICHD consortium a database and research perspective from what is the largest and most ambitious longitudinal effort in the area of child maltreatment. The LONGSCAN project is identifying families of young children who have been maltreated or are at risk for maltreatment. Focusing on these high risk families will allow for a more intensive examination of many of the potential risk factors and mediating variables that influence the psychological and social outcomes in children. The study's specific aims are to: 1) examine the impact of family structure, poverty, parenting attitudes, family satisfaction, spousal relationships and social service interventions on child well-being among a group of families identified as at high risk for child maltreatment, 2) define which domains within the broader context of family functioning are most important as mediators of child well-being in high risk maltreating families, 3) validate the importance of the selected domains within the concept of family functioning through the selective investigation of data from other datasets, 4) obtain guidance from the NICHD consortium to challenge and assist individual LONGSCAN investigators at their respective sites to examine the impact of social service interventions through longitudinal data analysis, and 5) determine the best measure or conglomeration of measures of family functioning to be used in future research studies and later data points within LONGSCAN. This study will involve a three phased approach to our cooperation with the Consortium. In phase 1 existing cross-sectional data from LONGSCAN will be analyzed in a case-control manner to identify the functioning domains most associated with indicators of child well-being. In phase 2 the study will seek validation of the domains from other NICHD consortium members. In phase 3 this study group will institute such changes as are appropriate in the measures used by LONGSCAN to capture the domains determined most relevant to subsequent child well-being. Finally, because of the ongoing data collection proceeding a part of LONGSCAN during our involvement with the NICHD Consortium, this study will be able to examine the relationships between new instruments or domains and instruments previously used by LONGSCAN to assess family functioning. This final step is likely to proceed after completion of the proposed five year involvement with the NICHD Consortium.