Seddon Jessica A, Abdel-Baki Rita, Feige Sarah, Thomassin Kristel
Department of Psychology, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON, Canada.
Front Psychol. 2020 Oct 15;11:579519. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2020.579519. eCollection 2020.
The current study tested a preliminary cascade model of parent dysfunction-i.e., internalizing psychopathology and emotion dysregulation-whereby parent dysfunction is transmitted to children through the impact of parental emotion socialization on child emotion regulation. Participants were 705 mothers ( = 36.17, = 7.55) and fathers ( = 35.43, = 6.49) of children aged 8 to 12 years who self-reported on their internalizing psychopathology, emotion regulation difficulties, and emotion socialization practices, and on their child's internalizing psychopathology and emotion regulation. Using a split sample method, we employed a data-driven approach to develop a conceptual model from our initially proposed theoretical model with the first subsample ( = 352, 51% mothers), and then validated this model in a second subsample ( = 353, 49% mothers). Results supported a model in which the transmission of dysfunction from parent to child was sequentially mediated by unsupportive parental emotion socialization-but supportive parental emotion socialization-and child emotion dysregulation. The indirect effects from the final model did not differ by parent gender. Findings provide preliminary support for a mechanism by which maternal and paternal internalizing psychopathology emotion dysregulation disrupt parental emotion socialization by increasing unsupportive emotion socialization practices, which impacts children's development of emotion regulation skills and risk for internalizing psychopathology.
当前的研究测试了一个关于父母功能失调的初步级联模型，即内化心理病理学和情绪失调，父母功能失调通过父母情绪社会化对儿童情绪调节的影响传递给孩子。参与者为705名8至12岁孩子的母亲（平均年龄=36.17岁，标准差=7.55）和父亲（平均年龄=35.43岁，标准差=6.49），他们自我报告了自己的内化心理病理学、情绪调节困难、情绪社会化行为，以及孩子的内化心理病理学和情绪调节情况。我们采用分割样本法，用数据驱动的方法从最初提出的理论模型中，基于第一个子样本（n = 352，51%为母亲）构建了一个概念模型，然后在第二个子样本（n = 353，49%为母亲）中对该模型进行了验证。结果支持了一个模型，即父母功能失调从父母传递给孩子是由不支持性的父母情绪社会化——而不是支持性的父母情绪社会化——以及孩子的情绪失调依次介导的。最终模型的间接效应在父母性别上没有差异。研究结果为一种机制提供了初步支持，即母亲和父亲的内化心理病理学及情绪失调通过增加不支持性的情绪社会化行为破坏父母的情绪社会化，这会影响孩子情绪调节技能的发展以及内化心理病理学的风险。
