University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.
J Interpers Violence. 2010 Sep;25(9):1669-83. doi: 10.1177/0886260509354589. Epub 2010 Jun 28.
The present study examined the impact of domestic violence (DV) on children's emotion regulation abilities measured via baseline vagal tone (VT). Specifically, the authors examined the relationship between DV exposure and children's regulatory functioning over time, investigating whether DV exposure was related to the trajectory of children's physiological regulatory abilities from the preschool period to middle childhood. Covariates, including marital dissatisfaction and conduct-problem status, along with potential gender differences, were examined. Though all children increased in baseline VT from Time 1 to Time 2, children exposed to DV displayed less increase in baseline VT over time as compared to nonexposed children. Results in terms of the long-term outcomes of DV on children and implications for interventions were taken into consideration and discussed in the article.
本研究通过静息态迷走神经张力（VT）来检测家庭暴力（DV）对儿童情绪调节能力的影响。具体来说，作者研究了 DV 暴露与儿童随时间推移的调节功能之间的关系，调查了 DV 暴露是否与儿童从学前到童年中期的生理调节能力轨迹有关。同时还研究了包括婚姻不满和行为问题状况在内的协变量，以及潜在的性别差异。尽管所有儿童的静息态 VT 都从第 1 次测量到第 2 次测量有所增加，但与未暴露于 DV 的儿童相比，暴露于 DV 的儿童的静息态 VT 增加幅度较小。本文考虑了 DV 对儿童的长期影响的结果，并讨论了干预措施的意义。
