Cook Emily C, Chaplin Tara M, Stroud Laura R
Department of Psychology, Rhode Island College, 600 Mount Pleasant Ave., Providence, RI, 02908, USA.
George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, USA.
J Youth Adolesc. 2015 Nov;44(11):1999-2011. doi: 10.1007/s10964-015-0331-z. Epub 2015 Jul 22.
Developing autonomy and maintaining relatedness within the parent-adolescent relationship marks a realignment process that shifts adolescents' decision making and regulation from parents to youth. This process may be stressful for some adolescents, particularly those who perceive their daily lives as stressful. This study examined the associations of autonomy, relatedness and perceived stress with adolescents' cortisol and blood pressure response to conflict in a mother-adolescent interaction task among 100 adolescents (M age = 15.09; 68 % girls, 78 % Caucasian). Few direct associations were found, but results indicated that perceived stress moderated the effect of autonomy and relatedness such that youth who reported more perceived stress and whose mothers' restricted their autonomy and undermined their relatedness evidenced increased cortisol and systolic blood pressure when compared to youth lower in perceived stress. The results highlight the importance of examining individual differences in the association between normative developmental transitions and adolescents' neurobiological response to stress.
在亲子关系中发展自主性并维持亲密感标志着一个重新调整的过程，这个过程将青少年的决策和自我调节从父母转移到青少年自身。这个过程对一些青少年来说可能会有压力，尤其是那些认为自己日常生活压力很大的青少年。本研究在100名青少年（平均年龄=15.09岁；68%为女孩，78%为白人）的母子互动任务中，考察了自主性、亲密感和感知压力与青少年皮质醇和血压对冲突的反应之间的关联。几乎没有发现直接的关联，但结果表明，感知压力调节了自主性和亲密感的影响，与感知压力较低的青少年相比，那些报告有更多感知压力且母亲限制其自主性并破坏其亲密感的青少年，其皮质醇和收缩压有所增加。研究结果凸显了在规范性发展转变与青少年对应激的神经生物学反应之间的关联中，考察个体差异的重要性。
