Silk Jennifer S, Shaw Daniel S, Prout Joanna T, O'Rourke Flannery, Lane Tonya J, Kovacs Maria
Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
J Appl Dev Psychol. 2011 May;32(3):127-136. doi: 10.1016/j.appdev.2011.02.001.
This study examines how mothers with and without a history of childhood-onset depression respond to their 3-9 year-old children's emotions. Mother-child dyads included 55 offspring of mothers with a history of childhood-onset depressive disorders and 57 offspring of never-depressed mothers. Mothers with a history of childhood depression were less likely than were control mothers to respond in supportive ways to their children's negative emotions and were more likely to magnify, punish, or neglect their children's negative emotions. Magnification, neglect, and punishment of children's negative emotions were concurrently associated with children's internalizing symptoms, and neglect and punishment were associated with internalizing over a one year follow-up. Maternal neglect of children's negative emotion was positively associated with later internalizing symptoms for children who already had higher internalizing symptoms at the initial assessment. Findings suggest that atypical socialization of emotion may be one mechanism in the development of internalizing disorders.
本研究考察了有儿童期抑郁症病史和无儿童期抑郁症病史的母亲如何应对其3至9岁孩子的情绪。母婴二元组包括55名有儿童期抑郁症病史母亲的后代和57名从未患过抑郁症母亲的后代。有儿童期抑郁症病史的母亲比对照母亲更不可能以支持性方式应对孩子的负面情绪，且更有可能放大、惩罚或忽视孩子的负面情绪。对孩子负面情绪的放大、忽视和惩罚与孩子的内化症状同时相关，而忽视和惩罚在一年的随访中与内化相关。母亲对孩子负面情绪的忽视与初始评估时已有较高内化症状的孩子后来的内化症状呈正相关。研究结果表明，情绪的非典型社会化可能是内化障碍发展的一种机制。
