Department of Psychology, Tulane University School of Science and Engineering, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.
Faculty of Social Welfare & Health Sciences, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel.
Attach Hum Dev. 2023 Dec;25(6):613-639. doi: 10.1080/14616734.2023.2272268. Epub 2023 Dec 28.
Exposure to intimate partner violence (IPV) during early childhood is associated with self-regulation difficulties. Caregivers can facilitate children's self-regulation through emotion-focused conversations about past experiences, buffering downstream effects. However, caregivers experiencing violence may avoid distressing emotions activated by such conversations. This paper explores two different models of relational stress responses, one involving indirect effects (i.e. spillover effects) and the other moderation (i.e. buffering effects). Mothers (n = 117), oversampled for violence exposure, self-reported on IPV and participated in an emotional reminiscing task with children (aged 3-5 years); narratives were coded for maternal sensitive guidance. Maternal sensitive guidance was related to children's self-regulation. Sensitive guidance did not have indirect effects in the association between IPV exposure and children's self-regulation, but did buffer the association between physical IPV and self-regulation; this pattern did not hold for psychological IPV. Results suggest sensitive guidance during reminiscing may promote self-regulation in contexts of high IPV.
儿童早期遭受亲密伴侣暴力（IPV）与自我调节困难有关。照顾者可以通过关注情绪的方式，围绕过去的经历进行对话，从而促进孩子的自我调节，缓冲后续的影响。然而，经历过暴力的照顾者可能会避免此类对话引发的痛苦情绪。本文探讨了两种不同的关系压力反应模型，一种涉及间接效应（即溢出效应），另一种涉及调节（即缓冲效应）。母亲（n=117），暴力暴露的抽样，自我报告的 IPV，并与孩子（3-5 岁）进行情感回忆任务；叙述被编码为母亲的敏感指导。母亲的敏感指导与孩子的自我调节有关。在 IPV 暴露与儿童自我调节之间的关联中，敏感指导没有间接影响，但确实缓冲了身体 IPV 与自我调节之间的关联；这种模式不适用于心理 IPV。研究结果表明，在回忆过程中进行敏感指导可能会在高 IPV 环境中促进自我调节。
