Bond Gary D, Gill Leslie A, Aragon Alyissa F, Jiménez Jacqueline C
Department of Psychological Sciences, Eastern New Mexico University, Portales, NM, USA.
School of Psychology, Universidad Anáhuac Puebla, Cholula, Mexico.
Psychol Rep. 2024 Aug 24:332941241277926. doi: 10.1177/00332941241277926.
This study assessed whether a sample of 43 children in Puebla, Mexico would show the Fading Affect Bias (FAB) for memories of the death of loved ones or pets and for general negative memories. FAB is a phenomenon in which emotional intensity associated with unpleasant memories fades faster than affect in pleasant memories. Mexican children showed FAB across negative and death memories. Younger children showed lower fading for general negative memories when compared to older children. A second aim of this work assessed whether younger (ages 4.83-9) and older (ages 10-13) children in Mexico would show biological and spiritual understanding of death, and findings indicated that Mexican children's understanding included both biological and spiritual subcomponents. Younger children showed lower comprehension of the death subcomponents Inevitability and Irreversibility. Higher depression, anxiety, and social stress scores as measured with the BASC-2 predicted lower FAB, lateralized to negative memories.
本研究评估了墨西哥普埃布拉的43名儿童样本，是否会在对亲人或宠物死亡的记忆以及一般负面记忆方面表现出消退情绪偏见（FAB）。FAB是一种现象，即与不愉快记忆相关的情绪强度比愉快记忆中的情绪消退得更快。墨西哥儿童在负面和死亡记忆方面均表现出FAB。与年龄较大的儿童相比，年龄较小的儿童对一般负面记忆的消退程度较低。这项研究的第二个目的是评估墨西哥年龄较小（4.83 - 9岁）和年龄较大（10 - 13岁）的儿童是否会对死亡表现出生物学和精神层面的理解，研究结果表明，墨西哥儿童的理解包括生物学和精神两个子成分。年龄较小的儿童对死亡子成分“不可避免性”和“不可逆转性”的理解较低。用BASC - 2测量的较高的抑郁、焦虑和社会压力得分预示着较低的FAB，且这种情况主要体现在负面记忆方面。
