Wang Xinyi, McGowan Amanda L, Fosco Gregory M, Falk Emily B, Bassett Dani S, Lydon-Staley David M
Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
Human Development & Family Studies, The Pennsylvania State University, State College, Pennsylvania, USA.
Fam Process. 2024 Dec;63(4):2308-2323. doi: 10.1111/famp.12995. Epub 2024 Mar 26.
Family conflict is an established predictor of psychopathology in youth. Traditional approaches focus on between-family differences in conflict. Daily fluctuations in conflict within families might also impact psychopathology, but more research is needed to understand how and why. Using 21 days of daily diary data and 6-times a day experience-sampling data (N = 77 participants; mean age = 21.18, SD = 1.75; 63 women, 14 men), we captured day-to-day and within-day fluctuations in family conflict, anger, anxiety, and sadness. Using multilevel models, we find that days of higher-than-usual anger are also days of higher-than-usual family conflict. Examining associations between family conflict and emotions within days, we find that moments of higher-than-usual anger predict higher-than-usual family conflict later in the day. We observe substantial between-family differences in these patterns with implications for psychopathology; youth showing the substantial interplay between family conflict and emotions across time had a more perseverative family conflict and greater trait anxiety. Overall, findings indicate the importance of increases in youth anger for experiences of family conflict during young adulthood and demonstrate how intensive repeated measures coupled with network analytic approaches can capture long-theorized notions of reciprocal processes in daily family life.
家庭冲突是青少年心理病理学的一个既定预测指标。传统方法侧重于家庭间冲突的差异。家庭内部冲突的日常波动也可能影响心理病理学，但需要更多研究来了解其方式和原因。利用21天的每日日记数据和每天6次的经验抽样数据（N = 77名参与者；平均年龄 = 21.18，标准差 = 1.75；63名女性，14名男性），我们捕捉了家庭冲突、愤怒、焦虑和悲伤的每日和日内波动。使用多层次模型，我们发现愤怒高于平常的日子也是家庭冲突高于平常的日子。在日内考察家庭冲突与情绪之间的关联时，我们发现愤怒高于平常的时刻预示着当天晚些时候家庭冲突会高于平常。我们观察到这些模式在家庭间存在显著差异，这对心理病理学有影响；那些在家庭冲突和情绪之间随时间表现出显著相互作用的青少年，其家庭冲突更具持续性，特质焦虑也更强。总体而言，研究结果表明青少年愤怒情绪的增加对成年早期家庭冲突体验的重要性，并展示了密集的重复测量与网络分析方法如何能够捕捉日常家庭生活中长期以来理论化的相互作用过程的概念。
