Williams Sarah R, Woodruff-Borden Janet
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, 550 N. Broadway, Suite 206B, Baltimore, MD, 21205, USA,
Child Psychiatry Hum Dev. 2015 Aug;46(4):512-22. doi: 10.1007/s10578-014-0492-0.
The importance of the parent-child relationship in emotional development is well supported. The parental role of facilitating a child's self-regulation may provide a more focused approach for examining the role of parenting in child anxiety. The current study hypothesized that parent emotion socialization practices would predict a child's abilities in self-regulation. Given that physiological arousal has been implicated in emotional development, this was hypothesized to mediate the relationship between parental emotion socialization and child emotion regulation to predict child anxiety. Eighty-five parent and child dyads participated in the study. Parents reporting higher degrees of unsupportive emotion socialization were more likely to have children with fewer abilities in emotion regulation. Cardiac responsiveness mediated the relationship between unsupportive emotion socialization and child emotion regulation. The model of cardiac responsiveness mediating the relationship between unsupportive emotion socialization and child emotion regulation failed to reach statistical significance in predicting child anxiety symptoms.
亲子关系在情感发展中的重要性得到了充分支持。父母在促进孩子自我调节方面的作用可能为研究养育方式在儿童焦虑中的作用提供一种更具针对性的方法。当前的研究假设，父母的情感社会化实践能够预测孩子的自我调节能力。鉴于生理唤醒与情感发展有关，因此假设它在父母情感社会化与儿童情绪调节之间的关系中起中介作用，以预测儿童焦虑。八十五对亲子参与了这项研究。报告显示，父母情感社会化支持程度较低的孩子，其情绪调节能力往往较弱。心脏反应性在不支持性情感社会化与儿童情绪调节之间起中介作用。心脏反应性在不支持性情感社会化与儿童情绪调节之间起中介作用的模型在预测儿童焦虑症状方面未达到统计学意义。
