College Park, Department of Psychology, University of Maryland, 4094 Campus Dr, College Park, MD, 20742, USA.
Division of Public Health, Michigan State University, 200 East 1st St, Flint, MI, 48502, USA.
Res Child Adolesc Psychopathol. 2022 Feb;50(2):211-224. doi: 10.1007/s10802-020-00686-9.
Maternal emotional functioning and emotion socialization practices can facilitate or hinder children's emotional development, and youth with symptoms of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) are at increased risk for emotion lability. However, little is known about the independent and interactive effects of maternal emotion dysregulation and adolescent ADHD symptoms on maternal emotion socialization and adolescent emotion lability over time. Using secondary data analyses of a longitudinal community sample of youth and their mothers (N = 247; 43.7% female), the current study examined direct and indirect effects of maternal emotion dysregulation on adolescent emotion lability via supportive and non-supportive emotion socialization practices as mediators, and the extent to which adolescent ADHD symptoms moderated these longitudinal pathways. Mothers reported on all study constructs. Results showed that non-supportive parenting responses to adolescents' negative emotional expressions partially mediated the association between maternal emotion dysregulation and adolescent emotion lability, and the effect was stronger at higher levels of youth ADHD symptom severity. Results suggest that parent- and youth-level characteristics interact to confer risk for non-supportive emotion socialization practices and adolescent emotion lability. This research contributes uniquely to theory and research on ADHD and emotional functioning across adolescence. Future research should extend this work by utilizing multi-modal assessment.
母亲的情绪功能和情绪社会化实践可以促进或阻碍孩子的情绪发展，有注意力缺陷多动障碍（ADHD）症状的青少年情绪不稳定的风险增加。然而，关于母亲情绪调节障碍和青少年 ADHD 症状对母亲情绪社会化和青少年情绪不稳定的独立和交互影响，我们知之甚少。本研究利用纵向社区青少年及其母亲样本（N=247；43.7%为女性）的二次数据分析，通过支持性和非支持性情绪社会化实践（作为中介），检验了母亲情绪调节障碍对青少年情绪不稳定的直接和间接影响，以及青少年 ADHD 症状在多大程度上调节了这些纵向途径。母亲报告了所有研究变量。结果表明，青少年消极情绪表达时母亲的非支持性育儿反应部分中介了母亲情绪调节障碍与青少年情绪不稳定之间的关系，并且在青少年 ADHD 症状严重程度较高时，这种影响更强。研究结果表明，父母和青少年的特征相互作用，增加了非支持性情绪社会化实践和青少年情绪不稳定的风险。这项研究为 ADHD 和青少年时期的情绪功能的理论和研究做出了独特贡献。未来的研究应该通过使用多模态评估来扩展这一工作。
