ANTISOCIAL CHILDREN: MARITAL & PHYSIOLOGICAL PROCESSES

目前的建议将测试一个基于家庭的情绪调节模型，该模型在从学龄前到童年中期的儿童反社会行为中具有连续性。对婚姻、父母-孩子和孩子-同伴系统的观察评估以及对交感和副交感神经系统活动的生理评估将在一项研究中系统地应用，以检查与反社会行为的稳定性和变化相关的人际和个人内部风险因素。之前招募的130个有学龄前儿童(4-5岁)的家庭将在9岁和10岁时再次出现。还将增加一个由95个家庭组成的新队列，评估时间分别为5岁、9岁和10岁。在理论测试中，将提出将身体婚姻攻击性、父母个人情绪调节能力、父母技能缺陷、父母元情绪哲学、儿童对冲突的敏感性和儿童的生理调节能力作为概念。测试了一种超警戒模型，在该模型中，暴露于身体的婚姻攻击可能与对威胁的超警戒有关，并阐明了联系机制。还测试了一种竞争性模型，一种习惯化模型，在该模型中，身体的婚姻攻击与对威胁的习惯性有关。本研究还试图：(1)考察品行问题儿童从儿童早期到儿童中期的生理功能发展变化；(2)在基于家庭的情绪调节模型中检验性别差异。

The present proposal will test a family-based emotion regulation model of continuity in childhood antisocial behavior from preschool to middle childhood. Observational assessments of marital, parent-child and child-peer systems and physiological assessments of sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous system activity will be systematically applied in one study to examine interpersonal and intrapersonal risk factors that are associated with stability and change in antisocial behavior. A previously recruited sample of 130 families with preschool aged children (4-5 years old) will be seen again at ages 9 and 10. A new cohort of 95 families will also be added, with assessments at age 5, 9 and 10. Physical marital aggression, individual parental emotion regulation abilities, parenting skill deficits, parental meta-emotion philosophy, children's sensitivity to conflict, and children's physiological regulatory ability will be proposed as constructs in theory testing. A hypervigilance model in which exposure to physical marital aggression may be associated with hypervigilance to threat is tested and mechanisms of linkage are articulated. A competing model, a habituation model in which physical marital aggression is associated with habituation to threat, is also tested. The present proposal also seeks to: (1) examine developmental changes in physiological functioning in conduct-problem children across the developmental period from early to middle childhood; and (2) test for gender differences in the family-based emotion regulation model.