Using wearable technology to measure the real-world parent-child dynamics which underpin emotional resilience

到目前为止，情绪弹性已被广泛认为是一种属性，可以强烈预测各种诊断类别的长期心理健康结果（Davydov et al., 2010）。然而，到目前为止，几乎所有的研究都将弹性视为不同个体的属性。然而，“没有男人（或女人）是一座孤立的岛屿”（多恩，1624年）。儿童个体的适应力是通过与其他人和环境的互动而发展起来的。从历史上看，在家庭环境中记录大量自然的亲子互动数据是不可能的。正因为如此，我们对孩子的长期适应能力是如何受到早期生活中孩子和父母之间关系机制的影响知之甚少。如果获得这个奖学金，我将进一步发展由Wass博士和Jones教授开创的新方法，包括微型可穿戴麦克风、摄像头和生理压力监测器，这些都可以由婴儿和他们的父母在家里佩戴。我会用它来收集和分析大量的“家庭亲子互动数据”。我将首次评估，现实世界中父母与孩子的互动动态是如何预测孩子长期情绪弹性的发展的。为了最大限度地提高该奖学金的成本效益，该博士学位将被整合为欧洲研究理事会和医学研究理事会分别授予我的导师Wass博士和Jones教授的两个大型资助纵向项目的一部分。这将使该项目的成本效益最大化，并使我能够接触到原本无法接触到的参与者群体。此外，该项目还将促进UBEL DTP内部的数据和思想交流，在UEL的BabyDev实验室（专门研究典型的早期发育）和伯克贝克的BOND实验室（专门研究非典型早期发育）之间进行交流。

Emotional resilience is, by now, widely recognised as an attribute that strongly predicts long-term mental health outcomes across diverse diagnostic categories (Davydov et al., 2010). However, almost all research thus far has treated resilience as a property of different individuals. Yet 'no man [or woman] is an island, entire of itself' (Donne, 1624). Resilience in an individual child develops through their interactions with other people, and with their environment. Historically, it has been impossible to record large volumes of naturalistic parent-child interaction data in home settings. Because of this, we understand surprisingly little about how a child's long term resilience is influenced by the mechanisms of the relationship between child and parent during early life. If awarded this studentship, I would further build on new methods pioneered by Dr Wass and Professor Jones, including miniaturised wearable microphones, cameras and physiological stress monitors that can be worn by infants and their parents in home settings. I would use this to collect and analyse large volumes of 'at-home parent-child interaction data'. I would assess, for the first time, how real-world parent child interaction dynamics predict the development of long-term emotional resilience in the child. In order to maximise the cost-effectiveness of this studentship, this PhD would be integrated as part of two large-scale funded longitudinal projects awarded by the European Research Council and Medical Research Council respectively to my proposed supervisors, Dr Wass and Professor Jones. This will maximise the cost-effectiveness of this project, and give me access to participant populations that I would not otherwise have access to. In addition, the project would also promote the exchange of data and ideas within the UBEL DTP between the BabyDev Lab at UEL, which specialises in understanding typical early development, and the BOND lab at Birkbeck, which specialises in atypical early development.