Department of Psychology, University of California, Berkeley.
Department of Human Development, Washington State University Vancouver.
Emotion. 2019 Oct;19(7):1183-1191. doi: 10.1037/emo0000527. Epub 2018 Nov 26.
Parents often try to hide their negative emotions from their kids, hoping to protect them from experiencing adverse responses. However, suppression has been linked with poor social interactions. Suppression may be particularly damaging in the context of parent-child relationships because it may hinder parents' ability to support children's emotion regulation. Immediately after completing a stressful task, 109 parents of 7 to 11 year olds were randomly assigned to a suppression condition or a control condition during an interaction with their child. Children were given a set of instructions with pictures to build a Lego house and told to verbally instruct their parent without touching the Legos themselves. Trained research assistants coded parents' and children's positive and negative mood, responsiveness, warmth, parents' guidance, and the quality of the interaction. We found that suppression decreased parents' observed positive mood, responsiveness, warmth, and guidance, as well as children's observed positive mood, responsiveness, and warmth, and decreased the overall dyadic interaction quality. However, parent sex played a significant role in moderating these effects. Fathers in the suppression condition were less responsive and warm than control fathers, though children interacting with their fathers did not exhibit decrements in responsiveness or warmth. In contrast, children of suppressing mothers appeared less warm than children of mothers in the control condition, though suppressing mothers did not exhibit decrements in their observed warmth or responsiveness relative to control mothers. Taken together, these findings suggest that the desire to hide one's feelings from one's children may have unwanted negative consequences but may differ for fathers versus mothers. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2019 APA, all rights reserved).
父母通常试图向孩子隐藏自己的负面情绪，希望保护他们免受负面反应的影响。然而，抑制与不良的社交互动有关。在亲子关系的背景下，抑制可能特别具有破坏性，因为它可能阻碍父母支持孩子情绪调节的能力。在完成一项有压力的任务后，109 名 7 至 11 岁儿童的父母立即被随机分配到与孩子互动时的抑制条件或对照条件。孩子们收到了一套带有图片的说明，要搭建一个乐高房子，并要求他们在不接触乐高积木的情况下口头指导他们的父母。经过培训的研究助理对父母和孩子的积极和消极情绪、反应能力、温暖度、父母的指导以及互动质量进行了编码。我们发现，抑制降低了父母观察到的积极情绪、反应能力、温暖度和指导，以及孩子观察到的积极情绪、反应能力和温暖度，降低了整体的双元互动质量。然而，父母的性别在调节这些影响方面起着重要作用。处于抑制状态的父亲比对照组的父亲反应能力和温暖度更低，尽管与父亲互动的孩子的反应能力和温暖度没有下降。相比之下，与对照组的母亲相比，抑制母亲的孩子显得不那么温暖，尽管与对照组的母亲相比，抑制母亲的观察到的温暖度或反应能力没有下降。总的来说，这些发现表明，父母从孩子那里隐藏自己的感受的愿望可能会产生意想不到的负面影响，但对父亲和母亲来说可能不同。(PsycINFO 数据库记录（c）2019 APA，保留所有权利)。
