Department of Psychology, Wayne State University, 5057 Woodward Avenue, 7th floor, Detroit, MI 48202, USA.
Dev Psychopathol. 2012 Feb;24(1):107-11. doi: 10.1017/S0954579411000691.
Studies using the Emotional Availability Scales have burgeoned in the past decade. The collection of papers included in this Special Section represents the latest innovations in research with this paradigm. Consistent with a developmental psychopathology perspective, these papers evaluate emotional availability in a variety of typical, at-risk, international, and intergenerational samples of children and caregivers, with many utilizing longitudinal designs or employing measures from multiple levels of analysis. One study begins to translate findings from this body of research into a promising intervention program. Although further growth and refinement in research with this paradigm is needed, the results to date begin to place the construct of emotional availability into a complex, dynamic biopsychosocial context, and promise to inspire a new generation of studies. In this commentary, some of the key contributions and challenges of this collection of studies are highlighted using a developmental psychopathology framework.
过去十年中，使用情感可用性量表的研究如雨后春笋般涌现。本特刊中收录的论文代表了这一范式研究的最新创新。这些论文与发展心理病理学的观点一致，评估了儿童和照顾者的各种典型、高危、国际和代际样本中的情感可用性，许多研究采用了纵向设计或使用了多个分析层面的测量方法。有一项研究开始将这一领域研究的发现转化为一个有前途的干预计划。尽管这一范式的研究还需要进一步的发展和完善，但迄今为止的结果开始将情感可用性这一概念置于复杂的、动态的生物心理社会背景中，并有望激发新一代的研究。在这篇评论中，使用发展心理病理学框架突出了本研究集的一些关键贡献和挑战。
