McGill University.
Psychol Trauma. 2023 May;15(Suppl 1):S102-S111. doi: 10.1037/tra0001322. Epub 2022 Jul 28.
Child maltreatment is often studied as a general category or individually as a subtype, but maltreatment subtypes are rarely studied simultaneously. Despite a breadth of research in the effects of child maltreatment on emotional competence, discrepant findings emerge when child maltreatment subtypes are explored. The present study aims to better understand the differential effects of childhood maltreatment subtypes on facets of emotion regulation and the recognition of specific emotions.
A sample of 573 emerging adults (87% female) aged 18-25 was recruited to complete an online survey that asked about child maltreatment history, difficulty with emotion regulation, and involved an emotion recognition task.
Path analyses indicated that emotional maltreatment had a global effect on the facets of emotion regulation and the recognition of negatively valanced emotions (anger, fear, and sadness). Neglect predicted difficulties with managing impulsive behavior; sexual abuse predicted difficulties engaging in goal-directed behavior. Physical abuse was associated with poorer recognition of fear. Multigroup analysis suggested that patterns did not differ between clinically distressed and nondistressed participants.
These results highlight the importance of including a standard set of child maltreatment subtypes in prediction models of emotional competence to avoid the misattribution or overestimation of the effects of child maltreatment subtype on emotional competence. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved).
儿童虐待通常被作为一个整体类别进行研究，或者单独作为一个亚类进行研究，但虐待亚类很少同时进行研究。尽管有大量关于儿童虐待对情绪能力影响的研究，但当探索儿童虐待亚类时，会出现不一致的发现。本研究旨在更好地理解儿童虐待亚类对情绪调节和特定情绪识别方面的差异影响。
招募了 573 名 18-25 岁的年轻成年人（87%为女性）参加了一项在线调查，该调查询问了他们的儿童虐待史、情绪调节困难以及参与情绪识别任务的情况。
路径分析表明，情感虐待对情绪调节的各个方面和识别负性情绪（愤怒、恐惧和悲伤）有全局影响。忽视预测了冲动行为管理困难；性虐待预测了目标导向行为的困难。身体虐待与识别恐惧的能力较差有关。多组分析表明，在临床困扰和非困扰参与者之间，模式没有差异。
这些结果强调了在情绪能力预测模型中纳入一组标准的儿童虐待亚类的重要性，以避免儿童虐待亚类对情绪能力的影响被错误归因或高估。
