Family Transitions Following the Birth of Sibling

描述（由申请人提供）：拟议研究的主要目标是检查婴儿兄弟姐妹出生后的过渡期。新生儿兄弟姐妹的到来往往会导致大孩子的流离失所感和父母对兄弟姐妹嫉妒的担忧。具体而言，我们建议检查的变化，家庭关系（母亲与子女，父亲与子女，和婚姻），父母的福祉，和第一个孩子的调整纵向。这项研究从母亲怀孕的最后三个月开始，并在兄弟姐妹出生后的第一年继续进行。这项研究的一个重要目标是确定哪些家庭可能是压力过渡的最大风险。本研究提出：1.在第二个孩子出生后的第一年中，确定第一个孩子调整的不同变化轨迹; 2.研究家庭关系、父母幸福感和大龄儿童适应能力的变化之间的相互关系; 3.使用产前评估的家庭，儿童和父母的特点，以预测不同的发展轨迹的家庭和儿童功能的超时; 4。在过渡到兄弟姐妹关系后的第一年，解决幼儿的社会情感发展问题。 拟议的研究是独特的，因为它将包括一个大样本的200个家庭，纵向跟踪这些家庭出生前后，包括母亲和父亲作为参与者，并检查这种过渡从一个动态的生态系统框架。这项发展研究将进一步了解家庭所经历的过渡压力，并指导我们制定预防建议，以卫生保健专业人员和他们所服务的家庭。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The primary goal of the proposed research is to examine the transition period following the birth of a baby sibling. The arrival of a newborn sibling often leads to feelings of displacement on the part of the older child and parental concerns about sibling jealousy. Specifically, we propose to examine changes in family relationships (mother-child, father-child, and marital), parent well-being, and the firstborn child's adjustment longitudinally. The study begins in the last trimester of the mother's pregnancy with a second child and continues throughout the first year after the sibling's birth. An important goal of this study is to determine which families may be a greatest risk for a stressful transition. This research proposes to: 1. identify different change trajectories in the firstborn child's adjustment across the first year following the birth of the second child; 2. to examine the interrelations between changes seen in family relationships, parental well-being and the older child's adjustment; 3. to use prenatal assessments of family, child and parent characteristics to predict different developmental trajectories of family and child functioning overtime and; 4. to address the socioemotional development of the young infant throughout the first year following the transition to siblinghood. The proposed research is unique in that it will include a large sample of 200 families; follow these families longitudinally before and after the birth; include both mothers and fathers as participants; and examine this transition from a dynamic ecological systems framework. This developmental study will further our understanding of the transitional stresses experienced by families and guide us in developing preventative recommendations to health care professionals and the families they serve.