Department of Psychology, Miami University, Oxford, OH.
Department of Psychology, Washington State University, Pullman, WA.
J Clin Psychol. 2019 Jan;75(1):221-237. doi: 10.1002/jclp.22703. Epub 2018 Oct 28.
The current study investigated whether a maladaptive family environment would moderate the strength of the relations of sluggish cognitive tempo (SCT) to attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder inattention (ADHD-IN) and to depressive symptoms in a large sample of college students.
Participants (n = 3,172), between the ages of 18-29 (M ± SD = 19.24 ± 1.52; 69.8% women; 80.4% White) and enrolled in five universities in the United States completed self-report measures of symptomatology, interparental conflict, and family expressiveness of emotions.
A negative emotional climate strengthened relations of SCT with ADHD-IN and depressive symptoms. Moreover, the lack of a positive emotional climate strengthened the co-occurrence of SCT with depressive symptoms, though not with ADHD-IN.
The current study is the first to demonstrate that the family environment moderates the association between SCT and co-occurring symptomatology in young adults.
本研究旨在调查在一个大样本的大学生群体中,不良家庭环境是否会调节迟钝认知节奏(SCT)与注意缺陷/多动障碍不注意(ADHD-IN)和抑郁症状之间的关系强度。
参与者(n=3172)年龄在 18-29 岁之间(M±SD=19.24±1.52;69.8%女性;80.4%白人),在美国的五所大学注册,完成了症状、父母间冲突和家庭情绪表达的自我报告测量。
消极的情绪氛围会增强 SCT 与 ADHD-IN 和抑郁症状之间的关系。此外,缺乏积极的情绪氛围会增强 SCT 与抑郁症状的同时发生,尽管与 ADHD-IN 无关。
本研究首次表明,家庭环境调节了 SCT 与年轻成年人共病症状之间的关联。