Schmidt Adam T, Orsten Kimberley D, Hanten Gerri R, Li Xiaoqi, Levin Harvey S
Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA.
Brain Inj. 2010;24(13-14):1550-60. doi: 10.3109/02699052.2010.523047.
This study investigated the relationship between family functioning and performance on two tasks of emotion recognition (emotional prosody and face emotion recognition) and a cognitive control procedure (the Flanker task) following paediatric traumatic brain injury (TBI) or orthopaedic injury (OI).
A total of 142 children (75 TBI, 67 OI) were assessed on three occasions: baseline, 3 months and 1 year post-injury on the two emotion recognition tasks and the Flanker task. Caregivers also completed the Life Stressors and Resources Scale (LISRES) on each occasion. Growth curve analysis was used to analyse the data.
Results indicated that family functioning influenced performance on the emotional prosody and Flanker tasks but not on the face emotion recognition task. Findings on both the emotional prosody and Flanker tasks were generally similar across groups. However, financial resources emerged as significantly related to emotional prosody performance in the TBI group only (p = 0.0123).
Findings suggest family functioning variables--especially financial resources--can influence performance on an emotional processing task following TBI in children.
本研究调查了小儿创伤性脑损伤(TBI)或骨科损伤(OI)后家庭功能与两项情绪识别任务(情感韵律和面部情绪识别)及一项认知控制程序(侧翼任务)表现之间的关系。
总共142名儿童(75名TBI,67名OI)在三个时间点接受评估:受伤后基线、3个月和1年,评估两项情绪识别任务和侧翼任务。照顾者每次还完成生活应激源与资源量表(LISRES)。采用生长曲线分析来分析数据。
结果表明,家庭功能影响情感韵律和侧翼任务的表现,但对面部情绪识别任务没有影响。情感韵律和侧翼任务的结果在各组中总体相似。然而,仅在TBI组中,经济资源与情感韵律表现显著相关(p = 0.0123)。
研究结果表明,家庭功能变量——尤其是经济资源——会影响儿童TBI后情感处理任务的表现。