Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey.
J Clin Psychol. 2012 Jun;68(6):661-71. doi: 10.1002/jclp.21849. Epub 2012 May 1.
The aim of the present study was to examine discrepancies between Turkish mothers' and adolescents' reports in terms of adolescents' difficulties in emotion regulation. In addition, the mediating role of mothers' own emotion regulation difficulties between mothers' psychological symptoms and the discrepancy on reports of adolescents' difficulties in emotion regulation was examined.
A total of 595 first-year high school students (300 females and 295 males) whose ages ranged between 14 and 17 years participated in the study. In addition, 365 mothers (61.34%) completed the questionnaires. Mean age of mothers was 41.86 years (standard deviation = 5.02) ranging from 32 to 61 years.
The results revealed that adolescents tended to report higher levels of difficulties in emotion regulation for themselves as compared with mothers' report, and girls reported more difficulties for their emotion regulation than boys. It was also found that mothers' own emotion regulation difficulties mediated the relation between mothers' psychological symptoms and discrepancy on reports of adolescents' emotion regulation difficulties.
Mothers may be less likely to endorse their children's emotion regulation difficulties since they cannot observe various aspects of their children's emotion regulation. On the other hand, the mothers' perception of their children's emotion regulation could be affected from their own emotion regulation difficulties, which could be a result of their psychological problems.
本研究旨在探讨土耳其母亲和青少年在青少年情绪调节困难方面报告的差异。此外，还检验了母亲自身情绪调节困难在母亲心理症状与青少年情绪调节困难报告差异之间的中介作用。
共有 595 名年龄在 14 至 17 岁之间的一年级高中生（300 名女性和 295 名男性）参与了研究。此外，有 365 名母亲（61.34%）完成了问卷调查。母亲的平均年龄为 41.86 岁（标准差=5.02），年龄范围为 32 至 61 岁。
结果表明，与母亲的报告相比，青少年往往会报告自己在情绪调节方面存在更高的困难，而且女孩比男孩报告自己在情绪调节方面存在更多的困难。研究还发现，母亲自身的情绪调节困难在母亲的心理症状与青少年情绪调节困难报告的差异之间起到了中介作用。
母亲可能不太愿意认同自己孩子的情绪调节困难，因为她们无法观察到孩子情绪调节的各个方面。另一方面，母亲对孩子情绪调节的看法可能受到自身情绪调节困难的影响，这可能是她们心理问题的结果。
