The Relation Between Parental Guilt Induction and Child Internalizing Outcomes

描述(由申请人提供)：目前NRSA提案的主要目标是定义父母抑郁、父母内疚诱导和儿童内化结果之间的经验联系。为此，目前的建议将初步验证父母内疚诱导的儿童自我报告测量，并开发父母内疚诱导的亲子观察编码系统。通过使用结构方程模型，本研究的具体目的是(1)检验通过儿童报告和亲子互动的行为观察测量的父母内疚诱导是否在父母抑郁和儿童内化结果之间起中介作用；(2)检验父母内疚诱导是否作为一个显著和独特的父母结构，有别于其他消极的父母养育行为(即侵入性和退缩父母养育)。 长期以来，父母的管理技能不足会导致外部化问题的发展。相比之下，人们对这些技能如何导致问题内在化的了解要少得多。形成母亲抑郁和儿童内化问题之间的路径的具体父母行为尚未确定。这项拟议的研究将检验父母内疚诱导是否可能是这样一种途径。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The primary goal of the present NRSA proposal is to define empirical linkages between parental depression, parental guilt induction, and internalizing outcomes in children. To this end, the current proposal will initially validate a child self-report measure of parental guilt induction, and develop a parent-child observational coding system of parental guilt induction. Through the use of structural equation modeling, the specific aims of this study are thus (1) to test whether parental guilt induction, measured by both child report and behavioral observation of parent-child interactions, mediates the relationship between parental depression and child internalizing outcomes; and (2) to examine whether parental guilt induction serves as a significant and distinctive parenting construct from other negative parenting behaviors (i.e., intrusive and withdrawn parenting). There is a long history demonstrating that inadequate parent management skills contribute to the development of externalizing problems. In contrast, substantially less is known about how such skills contribute to internalizing problems. The specific parenting behaviors that form the pathway between maternal depression and child internalizing problems have not been identified. The proposed study will examine if parental guilt induction may be such a pathway.