Shipman Kimberly, Edwards Anna, Brown Amy, Swisher Lisa, Jennings Ernestine
Kempe Children's Center, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Denver, CO 80218, USA.
Child Abuse Negl. 2005 Sep;29(9):1015-29. doi: 10.1016/j.chiabu.2005.01.006.
The primary goal of this pilot study was to examine emotion management skills (i.e., emotional understanding, emotion regulation) in children who had experienced neglect and a control group to determine the ways that neglect may interfere with children's emotional development.
Participants included children 6--12 years of age and their mothers (neglect group, N=24; control, N=24). Participants completed questionnaires and an interview that assessed children's emotional understanding and emotion regulation.
Findings indicated that neglected children, compared to their non-maltreated peers, demonstrated lower understanding of negative emotions (i.e., anger, sadness) and fewer adaptive emotion regulation skills. Further, neglected children expected less support and more conflict from mothers in response to displays of negative emotion and reported that they were more likely to attempt to inhibit the expression of negative emotion.
Findings suggest that neglect may interfere with the normal acquisition of emotional understanding and emotion regulation skills, highlighting the importance of addressing these skills in the context of clinical intervention with neglected children.
本试点研究的主要目标是检验遭受忽视的儿童与对照组儿童的情绪管理技能（即情绪理解、情绪调节），以确定忽视可能干扰儿童情绪发展的方式。
参与者包括6至12岁的儿童及其母亲（忽视组，N = 24；对照组，N = 24）。参与者完成了评估儿童情绪理解和情绪调节的问卷及访谈。
研究结果表明，与未受虐待的同龄人相比，受忽视儿童对负面情绪（即愤怒、悲伤）的理解较低，且适应性情绪调节技能较少。此外，受忽视儿童预期母亲在其表现出负面情绪时给予的支持较少，冲突较多，并报告称他们更有可能试图抑制负面情绪的表达。
研究结果表明，忽视可能会干扰情绪理解和情绪调节技能的正常习得，凸显了在对受忽视儿童进行临床干预时解决这些技能问题的重要性。
