The Pennsylvania State University.
National Chengchi University.
J Res Adolesc. 2023 Mar;33(1):361-368. doi: 10.1111/jora.12802. Epub 2022 Sep 28.
Although the sensitization hypothesis posits that heightened reactivity to interparental conflict is linked to adolescent psychopathology, limited studies tested whether sensitization would emerge in parent-adolescent conflict and across ethnicity or culture. This study revisits the sensitization hypothesis by examining adolescent emotional reactivity to interparental and parent-adolescent conflicts on a daily timescale. The sample included 163 adolescents (55% girls; M = 12.79) and their parents (78% females; M = 45.46) who completed a 10-day reports in Taiwan. Multilevel modeling results showed that, instead of interparental conflict, adolescents with greater histories of parent-adolescent conflict exhibited higher emotional reactivity when parent-adolescent conflict was higher. The findings underscore the importance of parent-adolescent conflict in evaluating adolescent developmental risk.
虽然致敏假说假设对父母冲突的反应增强与青少年精神病理学有关，但有限的研究测试了致敏是否会出现在父母-青少年冲突中，以及是否会出现在不同种族或文化中。本研究通过在每日时间尺度上检查青少年对父母间和父母-青少年冲突的情绪反应，重新检验了致敏假说。该样本包括 163 名青少年（55%为女孩；平均年龄为 12.79）及其父母（78%为女性；平均年龄为 45.46），他们在台湾完成了 10 天的报告。多层次模型结果表明，与父母间冲突相反，当父母-青少年冲突较高时，有较多父母-青少年冲突史的青少年表现出更高的情绪反应性。这些发现强调了在评估青少年发展风险时，父母-青少年冲突的重要性。
