Young Richard A, Marshall Sheila K, Stainton Tim, Chi Eugene
University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada.
Int J Dev Disabil. 2020 Oct 7;68(4):538-546. doi: 10.1080/20473869.2020.1827212. eCollection 2022.
Transition to adulthood for young people with (IDD) is challenging for both youth and parents. Prospection, an important human adaptive tool and critical for independent living, involves constructing, encoding, and remembering the future. It may be jointly enacted between parents and young people as they discuss the future. This study identified and described evidence of prospective content in parent-youth conversations about the transition to adulthood.
This study involved the content analysis is of eight parent-youth conversations about this transition. Two mother-daughter, three father-daughter, and three mother-son dyads, representing a range of IDD diagnoses, provided 790 min of joint conversations and reflection on them. These conversations were examined for the following characteristics of prospection: simulation, reasoning about counterfactuals, constructing multiple possible futures, and episodic memory of the past.
Among the four characteristics, simulation and episodic memory of the past were used most frequently and reasoning about counterfactuals the least. Giving advice and scaffolding were additional strategies that emerged from the data.
Identifying how prospection may be fostered in joint parent-youth conversations provides a step toward future research.
对于患有智力和发育障碍（IDD）的年轻人而言，向成年期过渡对青年本人及其父母来说都是一项挑战。前瞻性是一种重要的人类适应工具，对独立生活至关重要，它涉及构建、编码和记忆未来。在父母与年轻人讨论未来时，前瞻性可能会在他们之间共同展现。本研究识别并描述了父母与青年关于向成年期过渡的对话中前瞻性内容的证据。
本研究对八组关于这种过渡的父母与青年对话进行了内容分析。两组母女、三组父女和三组母子二元组，代表了一系列IDD诊断情况，提供了790分钟的联合对话并对其进行反思。这些对话被检查是否具有以下前瞻性特征：模拟、对反事实的推理、构建多个可能的未来以及对过去的情景记忆。
在这四个特征中，模拟和对过去的情景记忆使用最为频繁，而对反事实的推理使用最少。提供建议和支持是从数据中发现的其他策略。
确定如何在父母与青年的联合对话中培养前瞻性为未来的研究迈出了一步。
