Department of Dynamic and Clinical Psychology, University of Rome, Sapienza, 00186 Rome, Italy.
Faculty of Psychology, International Telematic University Uninettuno, 00186 Rome, Italy.
Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2022 Aug 2;19(15):9448. doi: 10.3390/ijerph19159448.
Adolescents frequently experience motor vehicle collisions (MVCs). Research has mostly underlined the psychological outcomes, rather than adolescents' general emotional-behavioral functioning and the role played by family. This study aims to explore the emotional-behavioral functioning, measured with the Youth Self Report (YSR), difficulties to identify and describe emotions, measured with the Toronto Alexithymia Scale (TAS-20), the use of defense strategies, measured with the Response Evaluation Measure for Youth (REM-71), and perceived family collaboration, measured with the Perceived Collective Family scale, in adolescents that have experienced more than three MVCs in a year. N = 150 adolescents who visited an emergency department for MVCs were assessed through self-report questionnaires. Adolescents showed difficulties to identify and describe their emotions and a massive use of defense strategies. Moreover, lower perceived family collaboration predicted adolescents' alexithymic traits and the massive use of maladaptive defense strategies. These results may be useful in assessing and creating prevention programs for risky driving behaviors in adolescence.
青少年经常发生机动车碰撞（MVC）事故。研究主要强调了心理后果，而不是青少年的一般情绪行为功能以及家庭所起的作用。本研究旨在探讨情绪行为功能，使用青少年自我报告（YSR）进行评估，识别和描述情绪的困难程度，使用多伦多述情障碍量表（TAS-20）进行评估，防御策略的使用，使用青少年反应评估量表（REM-71）进行评估，以及感知到的家庭合作程度，使用感知集体家庭量表进行评估，评估一年内经历过三次以上 MVC 的青少年。通过自我报告问卷评估了 N = 150 名因 MVC 而到急诊室就诊的青少年。青少年表现出识别和描述自己情绪的困难，以及大量使用防御策略。此外，较低的感知家庭合作度预测了青少年的述情障碍特征和大量使用适应不良的防御策略。这些结果可能有助于评估和制定青少年危险驾驶行为的预防计划。
