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| Sunday, 16 January 2005: 8:45 AM-10:15 AM | |||
| Hibiscus B (Hyatt Regency Miami) | |||
| Observational Methodology for Parent-Child Interaction: A Hands-On Workshop | |||
| Roundtable/Workshop Submitter(s)s: | Lynn Videka, School of Social Welfare-University at Albany Deborah Reyome, MSW, Center for Human Services Research Kurt Freeman, MA, Center for Human Services Research Monica Rodriguez, PhD, University at Albany Rose Greene, MA, Center for Human Services Research Ann Lowenfels, Center for Human Services Research | ||
| Format: | Workshop | ||
| Abstract Text: This session demonstrates observational methodology of parent child interaction in a natural (instead of laboratory) setting. This methodology is useful for studying child development, child maltreatment prevention and family support programs. Research demonstrates that dyadic processes occurring in early mother-child interaction are predictive of a host of subsequent child outcomes. For example, warmth, responsiveness, and the use of gentle guidance and support in mother-child play have been associated with children’s increased cognitive functioning (e.g., Pianta, Smith, & Reeves, 1991), whereas parental hostility, intrusiveness, or unresponsivity in stressful situations, have been associated with child behavior and self-regulatory problems as well as higher likelihood of child psychopathology (Egeland & Sroufe, 1981; Olson, Bates & Bayles, 1984; Rodriguez, Ayduk, Aber, Mischel, Sethi, & Shoda, in press). Moreover, the use of structured, microanalytic observational ratings have been shown to identify parenting processes that contribute to child outcomes beyond the variance predicted by maternal or interviewer report (e.g., Weinfeld & Egeland, 1997). This session focuses on demonstration and application of all aspects of parent-child observational methodology including digitizing observational data and software applications. Methods covered in this session include issues in data collection in naturalistic (home) settings; constructing interactional situations that varying the contextual demands imposed on mother and child; selecting recording equipment; training data collectors; managing realities of data collection in a naturalistic setting (including interruptions, less than ideal recording conditions); the technical and substantive issues in coding, including macro versus molecular analysis, coder training, inter-rater reliability; and data analysis, including the use of random regression methods for analysis of this type of data. The workshop will demonstrate parent-child interaction data that are coded using Noldus’ The Observer, a program allowing the researcher to store a coding system that embodies theoretically relevant constructs and to subsequently associate codes to time-marked points in media files. The workshop includes demonstration of the coding schema creation process and subsequent application to the observational data. Discussion will include the conceptual, methodological and pragmatic issues entailed in observational study of parent-child dyads. | |||
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