Lee Kyung Hwa, Siegle Greg J, Dahl Ronald E, Hooley Jill M, Silk Jennifer S
Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA, Department of Psychology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15260, USA, School of Public Health, University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA, and Department of Psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA, Department of Psychology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15260, USA, School of Public Health, University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA, and Department of Psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA, Department of Psychology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15260, USA, School of Public Health, University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA, and Department of Psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA.
Soc Cogn Affect Neurosci. 2015 Jul;10(7):902-12. doi: 10.1093/scan/nsu133. Epub 2014 Oct 22.
Parental criticism can have positive and negative effects on children's and adolescents' behavior; yet, it is unclear how youth react to, understand and process parental criticism. We proposed that youth would engage three sets of neural processes in response to parental criticism including the following: (i) activating emotional reactions, (ii) regulating those reactions and (iii) social cognitive processing (e.g. understanding the parent's mental state). To examine neural processes associated with both emotional and social processing of parental criticism in personally relevant and ecologically valid social contexts, typically developing youth were scanned while they listened to their mother providing critical, praising and neutral statements. In response to maternal criticism, youth showed increased brain activity in affective networks (e.g. subcortical-limbic regions including lentiform nucleus and posterior insula), but decreased activity in cognitive control networks (e.g. dorsolateral prefrontal cortex and caudal anterior cingulate cortex) and social cognitive networks (e.g. temporoparietal junction and posterior cingulate cortex/precuneus). These results suggest that youth may respond to maternal criticism with increased emotional reactivity but decreased cognitive control and social cognitive processing. A better understanding of children's responses to parental criticism may provide insights into the ways that parental feedback can be modified to be more helpful to behavior and development in youth.
父母的批评对儿童和青少年的行为可能产生积极和消极的影响;然而,尚不清楚青少年如何应对、理解和处理父母的批评。我们提出,青少年会对父母的批评产生三组神经过程,包括:(i)激活情绪反应,(ii)调节这些反应,以及(iii)社会认知加工(例如理解父母的心理状态)。为了在个人相关且生态有效的社会背景中研究与父母批评的情绪和社会加工相关的神经过程,对发育正常的青少年在听母亲提供批评、赞扬和中性陈述时进行了扫描。对母亲批评的反应中,青少年在情感网络(例如包括豆状核和后岛叶在内的皮质下 - 边缘区域)中表现出大脑活动增加,但在认知控制网络(例如背外侧前额叶皮质和尾侧前扣带回皮质)和社会认知网络(例如颞顶联合区和后扣带回皮质/楔前叶)中活动减少。这些结果表明,青少年对母亲批评的反应可能是情绪反应性增加,但认知控制和社会认知加工减少。更好地理解儿童对父母批评的反应可能有助于深入了解如何调整父母的反馈,使其对青少年的行为和发展更有帮助。