Zhang Wenrui, Qiao Lu, Wang Miaomiao, Liu Zaihua, Chi Peilian, Lin Xiuyun
Institute of Developmental Psychology, Faculty of Psychology, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China.
Experimental Primary School of Beijing Normal University Future Science Park Branch, Beijing, China.
Dev Psychopathol. 2025 Aug;37(3):1616-1627. doi: 10.1017/S095457942400172X. Epub 2024 Nov 19.
Emotion regulation, as a typical "top-down" emotional self-regulation, has been shown to play an important role in children's oppositional defiant disorder (ODD) development. However, the association between other self-regulation subcomponents and the ODD symptom network remains unclear. Meanwhile, while there are gender differences in both self-regulation and ODD, few studies have examined whether their relation is moderated by gender. Five hundred and four children (age 6-11 years; 207 girls) were recruited from schools with parents and classroom teachers completing questionnaires and were followed up for assessment six months later. Using moderation network analysis, we analyzed the relation between self-regulation and ODD symptoms, and the moderating role of gender. Self-regulation including emotion regulation, self-control, and emotion lability/negativity had broad bidirectional relations with ODD symptoms. In particular, the bidirectional relations between emotion regulation and ODD3 (Defies) and between emotion lability/negativity and ODD4 (Annoys) were significantly weaker in girls than in boys. Considering the important role of different self-regulation subcomponents in the ODD symptom network, ODD is better conceptualized as a self-regulation disorder. Each ODD symptom is associated with different degrees of impaired "bottom-up" and "top-down" self-regulation, and several of the associations vary by gender.
情绪调节作为一种典型的“自上而下”的情绪自我调节方式，已被证明在儿童对立违抗障碍（ODD）的发展中起重要作用。然而，其他自我调节子成分与ODD症状网络之间的关联仍不清楚。同时，虽然自我调节和ODD都存在性别差异，但很少有研究探讨它们之间的关系是否受到性别的调节。从学校招募了504名儿童（年龄6至11岁；207名女孩），家长和班级教师填写问卷，并在6个月后进行随访评估。我们使用调节网络分析，分析了自我调节与ODD症状之间的关系以及性别的调节作用。自我调节包括情绪调节、自我控制和情绪易感性/消极性，与ODD症状存在广泛的双向关系。特别是，女孩中情绪调节与ODD3（违抗）以及情绪易感性/消极性与ODD4（惹恼）之间的双向关系明显弱于男孩。考虑到不同自我调节子成分在ODD症状网络中的重要作用，ODD更好地被概念化为一种自我调节障碍。每种ODD症状都与不同程度的“自下而上”和“自上而下”自我调节受损相关，其中一些关联存在性别差异。
