Anderson Allegra S, Watson Kelly H, Reising Michelle M, Dunbar Jennifer P, Gruhn Meredith A, Compas Bruce E
Department of Psychology and Human Development, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, USA.
Ment Health Prev. 2023 Jun;30. doi: 10.1016/j.mhp.2023.200270. Epub 2023 Mar 18.
Parental emotion socialization, including processes of the socialization of coping and emotion regulation, is a key factor in shaping children's adjustment in response to acute and chronic stress. Given well-established links between parental depression and youth psychopathology, levels of parental depression symptoms are an important factor for understanding emotion socialization and regulation processes. The present study examined associations among maternal coping and depression symptoms with their adolescents' coping and internalizing problems. A sample of 120 adolescents (45% female, = 12.27, = 1.90) and their mothers participated in a cross-sectional, multi-informant study. Mothers' depression symptoms and adolescents' coping were significantly related to adolescents' internalizing problems. Adolescents' coping moderated the association between maternal depression symptoms and adolescents' internalizing problems, where at low and moderate levels of primary control coping, maternal depression predicted greater internalizing symptoms in adolescents. Further, this study expanded on prior work, demonstrating that the relationship between adolescents' coping and internalizing symptoms was associated with the degree to which mothers model coping. Taken together, results suggest that maternal coping and adolescent coping serve as salient risk and protective factors in the context of family stress. Findings emphasize a need for researchers to further clarify the role of emotion socialization processes in adolescents' development of coping in the context of family stress.
父母的情绪社会化，包括应对和情绪调节的社会化过程，是塑造儿童在应对急性和慢性压力时适应能力的关键因素。鉴于父母抑郁与青少年心理病理学之间已确立的联系，父母抑郁症状的水平是理解情绪社会化和调节过程的一个重要因素。本研究考察了母亲的应对方式和抑郁症状与青少年的应对方式及内化问题之间的关联。120名青少年（45%为女性，平均年龄 = 12.27岁，标准差 = 1.90）及其母亲参与了一项横断面、多 informant 的研究。母亲的抑郁症状和青少年的应对方式与青少年的内化问题显著相关。青少年的应对方式调节了母亲抑郁症状与青少年内化问题之间的关联，即在初级控制应对方式处于低水平和中等水平时，母亲的抑郁预示着青少年有更严重的内化症状。此外，本研究在先前工作的基础上进行了拓展，表明青少年的应对方式与内化症状之间的关系与母亲应对方式的示范程度有关。综合来看，结果表明在家庭压力背景下，母亲的应对方式和青少年的应对方式是显著的风险和保护因素。研究结果强调研究人员需要进一步阐明情绪社会化过程在家庭压力背景下青少年应对发展中的作用。
