Clinical Psychology Doctoral Subprogram, City University of New York, 160 Convent Avenue, New York, NY 10031, USA.
Child Abuse Negl. 2010 Feb;34(2):105-13. doi: 10.1016/j.chiabu.2009.05.006. Epub 2010 Feb 18.
This study examines how emotion regulation deficits in the area of anger arousal and reactivity are associated with child abuse potential in mothers with substance use and depressive disorders in order to identify targeted areas for prevention and treatment.
A sample of 152 urban mothers was interviewed on measures of substance use, diagnosis of depression, anger arousal and reactivity, and child abuse potential.
Linear hierarchical regressions revealed that anger arousal and reactivity exceeded diagnostic and demographic variables in predicting maternal child abuse potential. Additionally, anger arousal and reactivity was found to be a partial mediator of the relationship between diagnostic category and child abuse potential.
Findings are discussed in relation to a multifaceted model of child abuse potential which broadens the existing literature to include an examination of depression and emotion regulation in order to more fully understand how substance use and child abuse potential are linked.
Models and approaches which help clients to manage and regulate difficult feeling states, specifically anger, could be helpful, and may be most readily applied in such populations.
本研究旨在探讨愤怒唤起和反应性方面的情绪调节缺陷与物质使用和抑郁障碍母亲的虐待儿童倾向之间的关系，以便确定预防和治疗的目标领域。
对 152 名城市母亲进行了物质使用、抑郁诊断、愤怒唤起和反应性以及虐待儿童倾向的测量。
线性层次回归显示，愤怒唤起和反应性超过诊断和人口统计学变量，预测了母亲的虐待儿童倾向。此外，还发现愤怒唤起和反应性是诊断类别和虐待儿童倾向之间关系的部分中介变量。
研究结果与虐待儿童倾向的多方面模型有关，该模型拓宽了现有文献，包括对抑郁和情绪调节的研究，以更全面地理解物质使用和虐待儿童倾向之间的联系。
帮助客户管理和调节困难情绪状态，特别是愤怒的模式和方法可能会有所帮助，并且在这些人群中可能更容易应用。
