The Transmission of Emotion Regulation in Traumatized Families

项目总结/摘要 这个K23应用程序描述了一个为期四年的指导研究和教育计划，重点是检查 代际背景下儿童情绪调节发展的家庭过程 人际创伤暴露（发生在另一个人手中的受害）。候选人是 训练有素的临床心理学家，在儿童创伤和创伤后应激障碍方面具有专业知识， 培训，使她能够实施尖端的二元研究，这将进一步了解该领域的 儿童创伤后应激障碍的发展和预防机制。而其中也有很多 父母和孩子创伤后应激反应之间的联系已经被记录在案， 解释这些关联并不被很好地理解。因为人际创伤暴露 儿童和成人的情绪调节障碍，父母的情绪调节， 以及他们帮助孩子发展有效的情绪调节技能（情绪社会化）的能力 父母养育行为（ESPBs）可能是这种传播的两个关键机制。拟议的研究旨在 阐明这些与儿童情绪调节发展相关的家庭内过程， 为了更好地了解可能影响父母帮助子女克服影响的能力的因素， 创伤暴露。该候选人将招募9 - 12岁的儿童谁经历了人际关系 创伤（n = 80）和父母谁也经历了人际创伤。家庭将参加一个多- 情绪调节的父母和孩子行为和生理指标的方法评估， 在情绪诱导任务中的父母ESPB。该研究的具体研究目标是：（1）检查潜力 父母ESPB在父母情绪调节与儿童情绪关系中的中介作用 调节;（2）检查自主反应性之间的人内关系和人与人之间的影响， 情绪调节;（3）测试支持性ESPB的缓冲作用;（4）在一个小的子样本中， （n = 20），考察父母情绪调节的纵向稳定性和ESPBs，以及儿童的情绪 调控该奖项的主要培训目标是为候选人获得专业知识的二元 对情绪代际传递机制的生物心理社会评估 调节和失调。具体来说，一个严格的职业发展计划，包括课程， 体验式学习和指导将解决候选人在以下领域的培训差距：（1） 观察编码技术用于评估二元情感互动，（2）生理指标， 情绪反应，和（3）先进的统计方法相关的分析纵向，二元数据。一个 经验丰富的指导团队将提供他们的专业知识，加上一个有利的体制环境， 将促进候选人的研究独立性的实现。这个指导培训奖是不可或缺的， 候选人的发展作为一个调查工作，以改善创伤儿童的结果。

PROJECT SUMMARY/ABSTRACT This K23 application describes a four-year mentored research and education plan that focuses on examining family processes in the development of children’s emotion regulation within the context of intergenerational interpersonal trauma exposure (victimization that occurs at the hands of another person). The candidate is a trained clinical psychologist with expertise in childhood trauma and PTSD seeking to address gaps in her training that will enable her to implement cutting edge dyadic research that will further the field’s understanding of mechanisms involved in the development of, and protection against, childhood PTSD. Although numerous links have been documented between parental and child posttraumatic stress reactions, the processes that explain these associations are not well understood. Because interpersonal trauma exposure places both children and adults at increased risk for problems with emotion dysregulation, parents’ emotion regulation, as well as their ability to help their children develop effective emotion regulation skills (emotion socialization parenting behaviors, ESPBs), may be two key mechanisms in this transmission. The proposed study aims to elucidate these intrafamilial processes associated with the development of children’s emotion regulation in order to better understand factors that might affect parents’ capacity to help their children overcome the effects of trauma exposure. The candidate will recruit 9-12 year old children who have experienced interpersonal trauma (n=80) and a parent who has also experienced interpersonal trauma. Families will participate in a multi- method assessment of parent and child behavioral and physiological indicators of emotion regulation and parent ESPBs during emotion-eliciting tasks. The study’s specific research aims are: (1) examine the potential mediating role of parents’ ESPBs in the relationship between parent emotion regulation and child emotion regulation; (2) examine within-person relationship and between-person effects among autonomic reactivity and emotion regulation; (3) test the buffering effect of supportive ESPBs; and (4) among a small sub-sample (n=20), examine the longitudinal stability of parents’ emotion regulation and ESPBs, and children’s emotion regulation. The principal training objective for this award is for the candidate to gain expertise in the dyadic biopsychosocial assessment of mechanisms involved in the intergenerational transmission of emotional regulation and dysregulation. Specifically, a rigorous career development plan, comprised of coursework, experiential learning, and mentoring, will address gaps in the candidate’s training in the areas of: (1) observational coding techniques used to evaluate dyadic emotional interactions, (2) physiological indicators of emotional reactivity, and (3) advanced statistical methods relevant to analyzing longitudinal, dyadic data. An experienced mentoring team will lend their expertise and, together with a nurturing institutional environment, will foster the candidate’s attainment of research independence. This mentored training award is integral to the candidate’s development as an investigator working to improve outcomes for traumatized children.