Jane & Terry Semel Institute for Neuroscience & Human Behavior.
Department of Human Development & Family Studies, The Pennsylvania State University.
J Fam Psychol. 2019 Feb;33(1):109-120. doi: 10.1037/fam0000475. Epub 2019 Jan 7.
Parenting is emotionally evocative, and parental emotions have implications for parenting behavior. We used experience sampling methodology to capture mothers' experiences and emotions in the context of real-world, day-to-day parenting challenges. Mothers (N = 55) of 14- to 24-month-olds participated in 4 phone interviews per day for 6 days in which they reported on their momentary emotions, motivational states (i.e., desire to approach/engage and avoid/disengage), and behaviors (i.e., actual engagement and disengagement). Aims involved examination of (a) whether asking mothers to report on motivational states, in addition to reporting on their actual behaviors, would result in information that could inform the study of emotion regulation; (b) how mothers' self-reported motivational states and behaviors were associated with reports of emotions during parenting challenges; and (c) whether it would be possible to identify patterns of co-occurring motivational states and behaviors that may reflect emotion regulation processes. Results indicated that specific emotions were more consistently associated with reports of motivational states than behavior. Multilevel latent class analysis of motivational state and behavior variables identified 4 distinct classes, some of which indicated maintenance of motivational state, whereas others suggested modulation. The relation of self-reported specific emotions with motivational states and patterns of emotion regulation were also examined, and findings for irritation/anger and concern/worry underscore the importance of studying parental emotions in context. The findings are discussed within the context of the growing literature on parental emotion, including how this body of work has the potential to inform prevention and intervention strategies for high-risk families. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2019 APA, all rights reserved).
育儿是情感上的唤起，父母的情绪对育儿行为有影响。我们使用经验采样方法来捕捉母亲在现实世界中、日常育儿挑战背景下的体验和情绪。14 至 24 个月大婴儿的母亲（N=55）每天参加 4 次电话访谈，持续 6 天，报告她们的即时情绪、动机状态（即接近/参与和避免/脱离的愿望）和行为（即实际的参与和脱离）。目的包括：（a）在报告实际行为之外，要求母亲报告动机状态，是否会提供有助于研究情绪调节的信息；（b）母亲自我报告的动机状态和行为与育儿挑战期间的情绪报告有何关联；（c）是否有可能识别出可能反映情绪调节过程的动机状态和行为的共同发生模式。结果表明，特定情绪与动机状态的报告更一致，而不是行为。动机状态和行为变量的多层次潜在类别分析确定了 4 个不同的类别，其中一些表明维持了动机状态，而另一些则表明了调节。自我报告的特定情绪与动机状态和情绪调节模式的关系也进行了研究，对恼怒/愤怒和担忧/担心的研究结果强调了在背景下研究父母情绪的重要性。研究结果在关于父母情绪的日益增长的文献背景下进行了讨论，包括这一领域的研究如何有可能为高风险家庭的预防和干预策略提供信息。（APA，2019 年，所有权利保留）。
