RISK AND RESILENCE IN CHILDREN OF INCARCERATED MOTHERS

这项拟议的研究将调查在一个研究不足的人群--被监禁母亲的孩子--中经历过认知和行为发育以及依恋关系的多重风险的儿童的问题发展和韧性。除了非自愿地与母亲分离外，这些儿童中的许多人还经历过生活贫困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缓冲或加剧，包括与母亲的持续接触、家庭环境中可获得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子女日益增多的宝贵信息外，拟议的研究还将扩大我们关于依恋关系和儿童发展或适应能力的知识，这些儿童经历了以下两个方面：1)在经历过多种环境风险因素的儿童中；2)记录由于暂时与母亲分离而由非产妇照顾者照料的幼儿的发育情况。在R03机制下寻求资金是因为首席调查员是一名新的调查员，因此可以确定拟议分析模型的有效性。

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.