RISK AND RESILENCE IN CHILDREN OF INCARCERATED MOTHERS

这项拟议的研究将调查那些在认知和行为发展以及依恋关系方面经历过多重风险的儿童的问题发展和复原力，这些儿童是在一个未被充分研究的人群中进行的：监禁母亲的孩子。除了非自愿地与母亲分离之外，这些儿童中的许多人还经历过贫困生活和母亲滥用药物的历史。然而，这些风险可能会被儿童当前环境中的变量所缓冲或加剧，包括与母亲的持续接触，家庭环境中可用的刺激，以及替代照顾者的特征，如抑郁症状、身体健康和对社会支持的满意度。除了提供关于被监禁母亲的孩子数量不断增长的有价值的信息外，该研究还将扩展我们对经历过多种环境风险因素的儿童的依恋关系和儿童发展或适应能力的认识，2)通过记录由于暂时与母亲分离而没有母亲照顾的幼儿的发展。在RO3机制下寻求资金，因为首席研究员是一名新研究员，因此可以确定所提议的分析模型的有效性。

The proposed research will investigate problematic development and resilience in children who have experienced multiple risks to their cognitive and behavioral development and attachment relationships in an understudied population: children of incarcerated mothers. In addition to involuntary separation from their mothers, many of these children experience a history of living in poverty and maternal substance abuse. However, these risks may be buffered or exacerbated by variables in the child's current environment, including ongoing contact with the mother, stimulation available in the home environment, and characteristics of the substitute caregiver, such as depressive symptoms, physical health, and satisfaction with social support. In addition to providing to providing valuable information about the growing population of children of incarcerated mothers, the proposed study will extend our knowledge about attachment relationships and child development or resilience in children who have experienced multiple environmental risk factors, and 2) by documenting the development of young children who have non maternal caregivers due to temporary separation from mothers. Funding is sought under the RO3 mechanism because the principal investigator is a new investigator and so that the validity of the proposed analytic model can be determined.