AI Social Emotional Development and Attachment

新的少数民族教师的指导科学家发展奖被要求使申请人能够检查在年轻（12-14个月）美国印第安儿童的社会情感发展的父母和孩子的依恋作用。最终目标是获得设计和实施纵向研究计划的技能，以调查父母依恋状态和父母与孩子之间的早期依恋关系对孩子后期情绪和行为结果的长期影响。申请人的临床心理学背景，与原住民的研究，与原住民的临床工作，美国印第安人的背景，并与美国印第安人和阿拉斯加原住民心理健康的既定研究中心的联系，为职业发展计划和研究计划提供了良好的基础概述了本提案。一组在幼儿社会情感发展，依恋，跨文化研究，定性和定量研究方法和纵向研究领域的国家认可的学者将提供密集的指导和咨询。该奖项的目标包括：1）幼儿社会情感发展的研究; 2）使用依恋相关研究措施和依恋理论的培训; 3）使用定性研究方法的培训; 4）定量数据分析技术的高级培训;以及5）设计和实施纵向研究的培训。拟议研究的数据将在三年内收集。将从北方平原保留地招募80名孕妇。他们将在孩子出生前接受采访，并在孩子12-14个月大时再次接受采访。出生前的母亲依恋状态（由AAI测量）和婴儿依恋状态（由陌生情境测量）与12个月时的社会情感发展之间的关系将在更大的社会文化背景下进行研究。

A Mentored Scientist Development Award for New Minority Faculty is requested to enable the applicant to examine the role of parent and child attachment in the social emotional development of young (age 12-14 months) American Indian children. The ultimate goal is to gain the skills to design and implement a longitudinal program of research to investigate the long-term impact of parental attachment status and early attachment relationships between parent and child on later emotional and behavioral outcomes for the child. The applicant's background in clinical psychology, research with Native populations, clinical work with Native populations, American Indian background, and affiliation with an established research center for American Indian and Alaska Native mental health provide an excellent foundation for the career development plan and program of research outlined in this proposal. A group of nationally recognized scholars in the fields of early childhood social emotional development, attachment, cross-cultural research, qualitative and quantitative research methodologies, and longitudinal research will provide intensive mentoring and consultation. The goals of the proposed award include: 1) the study of early childhood social emotional development; 2) training in the use of attachment-related research measures and attachment theory; 3) training in the use of qualitative research methodology; 4) advanced training in quantitative data analytic techniques; and 5) training in the design and implementation of longitudinal research. The data for the proposed research will be collected over the course of three years. Eighty expectant mothers will be recruited from a Northern Plains reservation. They will be interviewed prior to the birth of their child and again when their children are 12-14 months old. The relationship between maternal attachment status pre-birth (as measured by the AAI) and infant attachment status (as measured by the Strange Situation) and social emotional development at 12 months will be examined within the larger socio-cultural context.