DEVELOPMENTAL AND ECOLOGICAL PROCESSES IN MENTAL HEALTH

NIMH行为科学研究中心的建议，以促进整个生命周期的心理健康的决定因素的纵向研究。该中心将开展三个多层次的研究项目，在儿童早期，青少年和成年早期的适应性自我调节。中心核心将整合40密歇根大学的人类行为纵向研究。研究促进小组将成立，以改善这些中心和中心附属项目的心理健康的发展，生态和方法评估。将有发展研究促进小组为婴儿和幼儿，中期儿童和青少年，成年。将有生物过程（内分泌学和营养学），人际过程（家庭功能，婚姻，亲子，兄弟姐妹和同伴互动），文化过程（亚文化因素，性别问题，少数民族地位和国际研究）和经济过程（收入水平，职业声望和失业）的背景分组。方法分组成员将拥有一系列统计技术的专门知识，用于分析跨时间的过程。个人研究项目#1将研究生物学之间的关系（内分泌反应性）和行为儿童发育问题婴儿样本中的情绪表达调节过程个体研究项目#2将在密歇根州、威斯康星州、宾夕法尼亚州、马里兰州和一个全国样本。个人研究项目#3将比较过去的影响，从出生到青春期的评估，以及当前的风险和保护因素对成年期心理健康的影响。研究学徒将与每个研究项目和中心核心相关联。研究结果将与预防、治疗和精神健康服务有关的问题联系起来，办法是确定作为干预工作重要目标的风险因素和风险群体。

A NIMH Behavioral Sciences Research Center is proposed to facilitate longitudinal research on the determinants of mental health across the life span. The Center will carry out three multilevel research projects on adaptive self-regulation during early childhood, adolescence, and early adulthood. The Center Core will integrate 40 University of Michigan longitudinal studies of human behavior. Research Facilitation Groups will be established to improve developmental, ecological, and methodological assessment of mental health in these Center and Center-affiliated projects. There will be developmental research facilitation subgroups for infancy and early childhood, middle childhood and adolescence, and adulthood. There will be contextual subgroups for biological processes (endocrinology and nutrition), interpersonal processes (family functioning, marital, parent-child, sibling, and peer interactions), cultural processes (subcultural factors, gender issues, minority status, and international studies), and economic processes (income level, occupational prestige, and unemployment). The methodological subgroup members will have expertise in an array of statistical techniques for analyzing processes across time. Individual Research Project #1 will examine the relation between biological (endocrinological reactivity) and behavioral (emotional expression) regulation processes in a sample of infants with pediatric developmental problems Individual Research Project #2 will examine the family mediators between economic hardship and adolescent mental health in 5 longitudinal samples from four geographical sites in Michigan, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, and Maryland and one national sample. Individual Research Project #3 will compare the influences of past, assessed from birth through adolescence, and current risk and protective factors on mental health in adulthood. Research Apprenticeships will be associated with each research project and the center core. Research findings will be linked to issues relevant to prevention, treatment and mental health services through the identification of risk factors and risk groups that would be important targets for intervention efforts.