Contract number: 61/02.09.2013
Total amount: 1.194.569,00
RON
Financing source: Romanian National Authority for Scientific Research, CNCS - UEFISCD
Autoreglarea maternă, practicile parentale și autoreglarea copilului în copilăria timpurie: implicații pentru psihopatologia dezvoltării
Rezumat
Obiectivul principal al acestui proiect este de a analiza relațiile complexe dintre caracteristicile parentale și cele ale copilului în perioada dezvoltării timpurii (de la 1 an la 4 ani), într-un studiu trans-secvențial (design longitudinal accelerat), derulat pe o perioada de 12 luni. Originalitatea acestui proiect constă în efortul de a conecta piesele de puzzle disparate ale dezvoltării auto-reglării timpurii. Pentru a atinge acest obiectiv în acest proiect vom evalua temperamentul matern, performanța atenției executive, psihopatologia și vom analiza stabilitatea și schimările care pot să apară în temperament și auto-reglare la copil. Totodată, va fi investigată relația complexă, posibil biunivocă, dintre caracteristicile parentale și cele ale copilului și va fi explorat rolul pe care practicile parentale îl dețin în această ecuație (mediatori/moderatori) ai relației dintre variabilele parentale și rezultatele copilului. În cele din urmă, vom analiza rolul variabilelor parentale și ale copilului, precum și interacțiunea dintre acestea în predicția dezvoltării psihopatologiei la copii. O contribuție importantă adusă de acest proiect constă în focalizarea pe o vârstă critică pentru emergența auto-reglării. De asemenea, studierea unor variabile implicate în dezvoltarea auto-reglării la copil ce merg dincolo de efectele individuale, este crucială în dezvoltarea unor intervenții preventive adresate părinților și diadelor părinte-copil.
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Maternal self-regulation, parenting practices and child self-regulation in early childhood: implications for developmental psychopathology
This project aims to analyze the complex relationships between parental and child characteristics during early development (from 1 to 4 years)in a cross-sequential study(accelerated longitudinal design)extended over a 12 months period. The originality of the project consists in connecting disparate pieces of the puzzle of early self-regulation development. In order to achieve this objective the project will asses maternal temperament, executive attention performance, and psychopathology and will analyze the stability and change over time of child temperament and self-regulation. In addition, it will study the complex, possibly biunivocal relation between parent's and child's characteristics and will also explore the role parenting practices might play in this equation (mediators/ moderators of the relation between parental variables and child outcomes. Finally, the project will investigate the role of parental and child variables and of their interaction in predicting development of psychopathology in children. An important contribution of this project will consist in focusing on an age that is critical for the emergence of self-regulation. Moreover, studying critical variables implicated in child self-regulation development, beyond individual effects only, can be crucial in designing preventive interventions addressed to parents and parent-child dyads.
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Expected
results:
1)
A database containing up to 180-200 mother-child
dyads (1, 2, respectively 3 years of age) with measurements
corresponding to
each dyad at three time points: T1 – initial assessment; T2
– after 6
months; T3
– after 12 months, in order
to ensure the statistical power to test a multi-variable model.
Publications
Benga, O., Susa-Erdogan, G. & Murza, P. (manuscript under review). Child and maternal predictors of early childhood anxiety: Different profiles for children with biases towards versus away from threat, Cognition & Emotion.
Susa-Erdogan, G., Benga, O., Mone, I. & Miclea, M. (accepted) The impact of childhood anxiety on processes of attentional executive control in the presence of emotional face distractors , Journal of Experimental Psychopathology.
Corapci, F., Friedlmeier, W., Benga, O., Strauss, C., Pitica, I., Susa, G. (in revision). Cultural Socialization of Toddlers’ Emotional Self-Regulation, Social Development.
Fechete, G. L., Susa-Erdogan, G. & Benga O. (in minor revision). Internalizing problems in preschool children. Contributions of both child and maternal temperament along with family functioning. Early Childhood Development and Care (Special Issue: Research on Early Child Development in Romania).
Kiss, M., Fechete, G., Pop, M., & Susa, G. (2014). Early childhood self-regulation in context: Parental and familial environmental influences. Cognitie, Creier, Comportament/Cognition, Brain, Behavior, 18(1).
Mone, I., Benga, O., & Ionescu, T. (in press). Grounding development in culture: How to study the influence of culture on development. Studia-psychologia-paedagogia
Mone, I., Benga, O., & Susa, G. (2014). The relationship between cultural model, socialization, goals and parental ethnotheories: A mixed method study. Cognitie, Creier, Comportament/Cognition, Brain, Behavior, 18(3).
Susa, G., Benga, O., Pitica, I., & Miclea, M. (2014). Child temperamental reactivity and self-regulation effects on attentional biases. Frontiers in Psychology, 5, 922. doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00922
Susa, G., Mone, I., Salagean, D., Mihalca, L., Benga, O., & Friedlmeier, W. (2014). The Relation between Maternal Perception of Toddler Emotion Regulation Abilities and Emotion Regulation Abilities Displayed by Children in a Frustration Inducing Task. Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, 128, 493-497. doi:10.1016/j.sbspro.2014.03.194
Conferences
Benga, O. & Susa-Erdogan, G. (2016). Bidirectional influences between mother and toddler regulatory strategies during delay of gratification paradigm at the 24th Biennial Meeting of the International Society for the Study of Behavioural Development, Vilnius, Lithuania (July 2016).
Susa-Erdogan, G., Benga, O., Mone, I., & Pitică, I. (2016). Positive emotion socialization in the case of Romanian mother-toddler dyads at the 24th Biennial Meeting of the International Society for the Study of Behavioural Development, Vilnius, Lithuania (July 2016).
Benga, O., Susa-Erdogan, G. & Fechete, G. (2016). Father’s and mother’s involvement: the role of parental perceptions of child temperament and their impact on children internalizing and externalizing symptoms at the International Conference on Infant Studies, New Orleans, SUA (May 2016).
Mone, I., Benga, O., Susa, G. (2015). Romanian mothers` cultural model and parental beliefs – A mixed method study, at the 17th European Conference on Developmental Psychology, Braga, Portugal
Benga, O., Susa, G., Mone, I. (2015). Parenting and self-regulation in toddlers, at the 17th European Conference on Developmental Psychology, Braga, Portugal
Benga, O., Susa,
G., Pitica, I. (2014). Self-Regulation
During Early Childhood: Disentangling Various Forms of Child Self
Regulation
and Their Predictive Value for Internalizing and Externalizing Symptoms
in
Children at The 23rd Biennial Meeting of the International
Society for the
Study of Behavioural Development, Shanghai, China (8-12 July) (poster)
Benga, O., &
Susa, G. (2014). The Relation Between
Maternal Self-Regulation and Child Self-Regulation During Early
Development at the XIX Biennial International Conference on
Infant Studies, Berlin, Germany, 3-5 July (poster).
Fechete, G., Salagean,
D., Kiss, M.,
Mone, I., Mihalca, L., Benga. O, & Susa, G. (2014). Child and Parental Temperamental Characteristics in
the Prediction of
Anxiety Symptoms in Preschoolers, at the 35th STAR
Conference, Cluj-Napoca,
Romania, 2-4 July (poster).
Pitică, I., Benga, O.,
Susa, G., Mone,
I. (2014). Romanian Mothers’
Strategies
of Emotion Socialization: A Multi-Method Analysis at the 22nd
International
Congress of International Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology,
Reims,
France, 15-19 July (oral presentation).
Susa,
G., & Benga, O. (2013). Romanian
toddlers’ emotion regulation abilities during a delay of
gratification task:
the role of mothers’ emotion regulation responses and child
gender and
temperament, at the Regional Workshop organized by
International
Society for the Study of Behavioral Development (ISSBD) in
Budapest, Hungary, 12-14 Septembre 2013 (oral presentation).