PREDICTORS OF ATTACHMENT AND COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT IN PRETERM INFANTS

该子项目是利用NIH/NCRR资助的中心赠款提供的资源的许多研究子项目之一。子项目和研究者（PI）可能从另一个NIH来源获得了主要资金，因此可以在其他CRISP条目中表示。所列机构为中心，不一定是研究者所在机构。(from CRISP网站）这项研究调查了涉及自我调节发展的早期社会和生理过程及其与高危婴儿的母婴依恋和认知发展的关系。这项研究跟踪婴儿从出院到2岁（校正胎龄）。该研究有四个具体目标：（1）探讨高危儿自我调节的3个前言语预测因子，包括神经生理调节（早期心肺过程），相互调节的质量（亲子互动）和婴儿自我调节倾向（气质），（2）探讨亲子互动质量在婴儿与父母互动关系中的中介作用。母亲特征与婴儿的认知和社会结果，（3）确定风险水平和气质不同的婴儿是否容易受到与慢性母亲抑郁症相关的消极父母的影响，（4）确定高风险婴儿的依恋，认知能力和自我调节之间的关系。

This subproject is one of many research subprojects utilizing the resources provided by a Center grant funded by NIH/NCRR. The subproject and investigator (PI) may have received primary funding from another NIH source, and thus could be represented in other CRISP entries. The institution listed is for the Center, which is not necessarily the institution for the investigator. (from CRISP website) This study investigates early social and physiological processes involved in the development of self regulation and its relation to infant-mother attachment and cognitive development in high-risk infants. The research follows infants from hospital discharge until they are 2 years (corrected for gestational age). The study has 4 specific aims: (1) to examine 3 preverbal predictors of high risk infants' self-regulation, including neurophysiological modulation (early cardiorespiratory processes), quality of mutual regulation (parent-infant interaction), and infant self regulatory disposition (temperament), (2) to investigate parent-infant interaction quality over time as a mediator of the relation between infant/maternal characteristics and infants' cognitive and social outcomes, (3) to identify whether infants varying in risk levels and temperament are susceptible to negative parenting associated with chronic maternal depression, and (4) to identify relations among attachment, cognitive abilities, and self-regulation in high risk infants.