Milojevich Helen M, Lindquist Kristen A, Sheridan Margaret A
Department of Pediatrics, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, 1000 NE 13th Street, Nicholson Tower Suite 4976, OK 73104 Oklahoma City, USA.
Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of North Carolina At Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC USA.
Affect Sci. 2021 Sep 18;2(3):324-344. doi: 10.1007/s42761-021-00054-w. eCollection 2021 Sep.
Exposure to early adversity has been linked to variations in emotional functioning. To date, however, the precise nature of these variations has been difficult to pinpoint given widespread differences in the ways in which aspects of emotional functioning are defined and measured. Here, more consistent with models of emotional functioning in typically developing populations (e.g., Halberstadt et al., 2001), we propose defining emotional functioning as consisting of distinct domains of emotion expression, perception, knowledge, reactivity, and regulation. We argue that this framework is useful for guiding hypothesis generation about the specific impact of early adversity on children's emotional functioning. We operationalize the construct of emotional functioning, highlight what is currently known about the association between adversity exposure and each domain of emotional functioning, propose potential mechanisms for these associations, and set the stage for future research examining the development of emotional functioning in the context of early adversity.
早期经历逆境与情绪功能的变化有关。然而，迄今为止，鉴于在情绪功能各方面的定义和测量方式上存在广泛差异，这些变化的确切性质难以确定。在此，更符合典型发育人群情绪功能模型（例如，哈尔伯施塔特等人，2001年），我们建议将情绪功能定义为由情绪表达、感知、知识、反应性和调节等不同领域组成。我们认为，这个框架有助于指导关于早期逆境对儿童情绪功能具体影响的假设生成。我们对情绪功能的结构进行操作化，强调目前已知的逆境暴露与情绪功能各领域之间的关联，提出这些关联的潜在机制，并为未来研究早期逆境背景下情绪功能的发展奠定基础。
