Understanding children's interpersonal conflict: effects on mental health and interventions to reduce it

本项目将采用先进的定量方法对大型数据集进行二次数据分析，了解儿童在家庭环境内（与兄弟姐妹）和家庭外（与同龄人）的人际冲突对儿童日后心理健康和福祉的影响。它还将探讨父母和学校干预是否可以减少儿童的人际冲突水平。具体而言，本项目将：1。利用英国纵向出生队列研究——雅芳父母与儿童纵向研究（ALSPAC）的数据，阐明可能导致与同伴和/或兄弟姐妹冲突的受害者与后来的心理健康问题之间关系的认知机制。2. 探索不可思议的岁月父母干预对儿童人际冲突水平的影响。具体来说，它将研究“不可思议的岁月”是否会影响儿童与父母、兄弟姐妹和同龄同伴的冲突程度，相对于对照组。数据来自随机对照试验的汇总数据，这些试验评估了欧洲七个国家的“不可思议的岁月”育儿干预措施。使用KiVa反欺凌干预的数据，检查旨在减少同伴之间冲突的以学校为基础的反欺凌干预是否也改善了兄弟姐妹关系

This project will use advanced quantitative methods to conduct secondary data analysis of large-scale datasets, to understand the effects of children's interpersonal conflict within the family context (with their siblings) and outside the home (with their peers) on children's later mental health and wellbeing. It will also explore whether parenting and school-based interventions can reduce levels of children's interpersonal conflict. Specifically, this project will: 1. Elucidate the cognitive mechanisms which might be responsible for the relationship between being the victim of conflict with peers and/or siblings and later mental health difficulties, using data from a UK based longitudinal birth cohort study, the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (ALSPAC). 2. Explore the effects of the Incredible Years parenting intervention on children's levels of interpersonal conflict. Specifically, it will examine whether Incredible Years influences levels of children's conflict with their parents, siblings, and same age peers, relative to a control. Data is from a pooled data from randomised controlled trials evaluating the Incredible Years parenting intervention in seven countries across Europe.3. Examine whether school-based anti-bullying interventions, designed to reduce conflict amongst peers, also improve sibling relationships, using data from the KiVa anti-bullying intervention