Pathways from Parental Exposure to Violence to Problems in Early Child Development: A Focus on Low and Middle-income Countries

在我完成MPHIL后，我想继续攻读博士学位，并进行研究，以了解父母接触暴力如何导致厄瓜多尔儿童早期的情感和行为问题。我将对昆卡市200名3至4岁儿童的母亲进行问卷调查，收集有关亲密伴侣暴力暴露、对暴力的态度以及孩子的焦虑、愤怒、社交技能和冷酷无情特征的信息。这项研究的结果将用于开展进一步的研究和制定预防政策，帮助消除厄瓜多尔境内对儿童的暴力行为。作为MPHIL的一部分，我想进行研究，以促进前面提到的项目。例如，它可以是使用相同变量的较小研究，或者可以帮助确定哪些是厄瓜多尔需要测量的最重要变量的二级数据分析。

After I complete the MPhil, I would like to continue on to a PhD and conduct research to understand how parental exposure to violence can lead to emotional and behavioural problems in early childhood in Ecuador. I would apply questionnaires to 200 mothers of children between 3 and 4 years old in the city of Cuenca and collect information regarding exposure to intimate partner violence, attitudes towards violence, and the child's levels of anxiety, anger, social skills and callous-unemotional traits. The results obtained in this research would be used to conduct further research and elaborate prevention policies, helping to eliminate violence against children in Ecuador. As part of the MPhil, I would like to conduct research that would facilitate the previously mentioned project. It could be for example a smaller study with the same variables, or a secondary data analysis that could help determine which are the most important variables that need to be measured in Ecuador.