Muris Peter, van der Pennen Els, Sigmond Rianne, Mayer Birgit
Institute of Psychology, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Burgemeester Oudlaan 50, Suite T13-37, PO Box 1738, 3000 DR Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
Child Psychiatry Hum Dev. 2008 Dec;39(4):455-67. doi: 10.1007/s10578-008-0101-1. Epub 2008 Apr 30.
This study investigated the relation between the regulative trait of effortful control, and in particular attention control, and psychopathological symptoms in a sample of 207 non-clinical children aged 8-12 years. For this purpose, children completed self-report scales for measuring regulative traits and various types of psychopathological symptoms (i.e., anxiety, depression, and aggression) and were tested with a neuropsychological battery for measuring attention/effortful control capacity. Results indicated that self-report and performance-based measures of attention/effortful control were at best moderately correlated. Further, it was found that self-report indexes of attention/effortful control were clearly negatively related to psychopathological symptoms, which provides support for the notion that low regulation is associated with higher levels of psychopathology. Finally, the performance-based measure of attention/effortful control was not convincingly related to psychopathological symptoms.
本研究调查了207名8至12岁非临床儿童样本中努力控制的调节特质，特别是注意力控制与心理病理症状之间的关系。为此，孩子们完成了用于测量调节特质和各种心理病理症状（即焦虑、抑郁和攻击性）的自我报告量表，并接受了一套神经心理测试以测量注意力/努力控制能力。结果表明，基于自我报告和表现的注意力/努力控制测量之间充其量只是中等程度相关。此外，研究发现注意力/努力控制的自我报告指标与心理病理症状明显呈负相关，这为低调节与更高水平的精神病理学相关这一观点提供了支持。最后，基于表现的注意力/努力控制测量与心理病理症状之间的关系并不令人信服。
