积极的重新评价是否能缓和儿童情感虐待与成人心理健康之间的关系？
Do positive reappraisals moderate the association between childhood emotional abuse and adult mental health?
机构信息
School of Social Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.
出版信息
J Ment Health. 2021 Jun;30(3):341-348. doi: 10.1080/09638237.2021.1875411. Epub 2021 Jan 27.
BACKGROUND
It is well-established that childhood emotional abuse is associated with poor mental health in adulthood. Yet, less is known about the ways that this association is contingent upon psychological resources.
AIMS
The purpose of this study is to examine whether positive reappraisals moderate the association between childhood emotional abuse and adult mental health.
METHODS
This study employs regression analyses using nationally representative, cross-sectional data from the 1995-1996 National Survey of Midlife Development in the United States ( = 3,034).
RESULTS
The analysis shows that childhood emotional abuse is positively associated with negative affect whereas it is negatively associated with positive affect in adulthood. Yet, positive reappraisals reduce the positive association between childhood emotional abuse and negative affect. Similarly, positive reappraisals weaken the negative association between childhood emotional abuse and positive affect.
CONCLUSIONS
These observations indicate that positive reappraisals act as a countervailing mechanism that buffers the deleterious association of childhood emotional abuse with adult mental health.
背景
儿童期情感虐待与成年后心理健康状况不佳密切相关，这一点已得到充分证实。然而，人们对这种关联取决于心理资源的方式知之甚少。
目的
本研究旨在检验积极的重新评价是否会调节儿童期情感虐待与成年心理健康之间的关系。
方法
本研究使用了美国 1995-1996 年全国中年发展调查的全国代表性横断面数据（ = 3034）进行回归分析。
结果
分析表明，儿童期情感虐待与成年时的消极情绪呈正相关，而与积极情绪呈负相关。然而，积极的重新评价会降低儿童期情感虐待与消极情绪之间的正相关。同样，积极的重新评价也会削弱儿童期情感虐待与积极情绪之间的负相关。
结论
这些观察结果表明，积极的重新评价是一种对抗机制，可以缓冲儿童期情感虐待与成年心理健康之间的不良关联。
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