Uppsala Universitet, Uppsala, Sweden.
Q J Exp Psychol (Hove). 2024 Oct;77(10):1987-1999. doi: 10.1177/17470218231211573. Epub 2023 Nov 29.
This study assesses the development of proactive control strategies in 100 Syrian refugee families (394 individuals) with 6- to 18-year-old children currently living in Turkish communities. The results demonstrate that children's age and their mothers' post-traumatic stress symptoms were associated with the degree of proactive control in their children, with worse mental health being associated with a larger reliance on reactive control and lesser reliance on proactive, future-oriented, control (measured via d' in the AX-CPT task). None of the following factors contributed to children's performance: fathers' experience with post-traumatic stress, parents' exposure to potentially traumatic war-related events, perceived discrimination, a decline in socio-economic status, religious beliefs, parents' proactive control strategies, or the education or gender of the children themselves. The association between mothers' mental health and proactive control strategies in children was large (in terms of effect size), suggesting that supporting mothers' mental health might have clear effects on the development of their children.
本研究评估了 100 个叙利亚难民家庭（394 人）中积极控制策略的发展情况，这些家庭中有 6 至 18 岁的儿童，目前居住在土耳其社区。研究结果表明，儿童的年龄和母亲的创伤后应激症状与儿童的积极控制程度有关，心理健康状况越差，越依赖于反应性控制，而越不依赖于积极的、面向未来的控制（通过 AX-CPT 任务中的 d'来衡量）。以下因素都不会影响儿童的表现：父亲经历创伤后应激、父母接触潜在创伤性与战争相关的事件、感知歧视、社会经济地位下降、宗教信仰、父母的积极控制策略、儿童的教育程度或性别。母亲的心理健康与儿童的积极控制策略之间存在很大的关联（就效应大小而言），这表明支持母亲的心理健康可能对儿童的发展产生明显的影响。
