MOTHER-INFANT REGULATION: DEPRESSION AND ATTACHMENT

对互动调节和自我调节的研究往往相互排斥。然而，每个人都必须既监督伴侣，又调节内心状态。因此，自我调节和互动调节的结合是至关重要的。在这项提案中，我们建立在之前关于互动监管的工作基础上，并增加了自我监管。在之前关于正常母婴样本的面对面交流的研究中，从高机率(警觉)到低机率(退缩)的互动调节的连续体预测了一年的依恋结果，具有中期最优。我们现在假设自我调节和交互调节都是中档最优的，并将这些概念应用于自我报告的母亲抑郁症状(CES-D)和婴儿依恋。为了消除这两个同时发生的过程，我们使用了时间序列方法来进行自我调节和交互调节。数据收集完成：135对母婴在4个月时进行了面对面互动的录像带和录音带；90人已返回接受12个月的依恋。需要的资金仅用于编码和分析，使用声音和运动学变量。如果目前的项目复制了我们之前正常研究的预测能力，我们的自动发声仪器将有助于在4个月后检测到交互作用障碍。如果自我与互动困难的相对显著程度因病理类型(抑郁/依恋类型)而不同，将这项基础研究转化为临床干预(目前正在通过录像带辅导进行)可能会更有针对性。

Studies of interactive regulation and self regulation have tended to exclude each other. However, each person must both monitor the partner and regulate inner state. Thus integration of self and interactive regulation is essential. In this proposal we build on previous work on interactive regulation and add self regulation. In previous work on face-to-face communication in a normal mother-infant sample, a continuum of interactive regulation, ranging from high contingent (vigilant) to low contingent (withdrawn), predicted 1 year attachment outcomes, with midrange optimum. We now hypothesize a midrange optimum in both self- and interactive regulation, and apply these concepts to self-report maternal depressive symptoms (CES-D) and to infant attachment. To disembed the two simultaneous processes, time-series approaches to self- and interactive regulation are used. Data collection is completed: 135 mother-infant dyads have been videotaped and audiotaped in face-to-face interaction at 4 months; 90 have returned for 12 month attachment. Funds are requested for coding and analysis only, using both vocal and kinesic variables. If the current project replicates the predictive power of our previous normal study, our automated vocal instrument will facilitate the detection of interaction disorders at 4 months. If the relative salience of self vs interactive difficulties differs according to kind of pathology (depression/attachment type), translation of this basic research into clinical intervention (currently in progress via videotape coaching) could be more finely focused.