Chiang Shou-Chun, Bai Sunhye
Department of Human Development and Family Sciences, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX, USA.
Department of Human Development and Family Studies, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA.
Dev Psychopathol. 2024 Dec 4:1-9. doi: 10.1017/S0954579424001779.
Building on the sensitization hypothesis, the present work aimed to examine how parent-adolescent conflict might be associated with heightened emotional reactivity to peer conflicts, which in turn shape the development of adolescent internalizing psychopathology. Participants were 108 Taiwanese adolescents between the ages of 18 and 19 ( = 18.53, = 0.39; 64% female) who completed baseline assessments, 14-day daily surveys, and 6-month follow-up assessments. Emotional reactivity was measured by calculating the daily association between peer conflict and positive and negative emotions. Results indicated that greater baseline parent-adolescent conflict was associated with higher negative emotional reactivity to peer conflicts, which then predicted increased depressive symptoms and anxiety symptoms 6 months later. Moreover, greater positive emotional reactivity to peer conflicts (i.e., more declines in positive emotions in response to peer conflicts) predicted increased depressive symptoms. Thus, the findings of the current study support and extend the sensitization hypothesis and suggest that parent-adolescent conflict may contribute to family-of-origin sensitization in non-familial, interpersonal contexts. The results have key implications for understanding adolescent developmental psychopathology associated with family conflicts and emotional reactivity.
基于敏感化假说，本研究旨在探讨亲子冲突如何与对同伴冲突的情绪反应增强相关联，而这反过来又会影响青少年内化性心理病理学的发展。研究参与者为108名年龄在18至19岁之间的台湾青少年（平均年龄=18.53，标准差=0.39；64%为女性），他们完成了基线评估、为期14天的每日调查以及6个月的随访评估。通过计算同伴冲突与积极和消极情绪之间的每日关联来衡量情绪反应。结果表明，基线时亲子冲突程度越高，对同伴冲突的负面情绪反应就越高，这进而预测了6个月后抑郁症状和焦虑症状的增加。此外，对同伴冲突的积极情绪反应越强（即对同伴冲突时积极情绪下降越多），抑郁症状增加的可能性就越大。因此，本研究结果支持并扩展了敏感化假说，并表明亲子冲突可能在非家庭人际环境中导致源自家庭的敏感化。这些结果对于理解与家庭冲突和情绪反应相关的青少年发展性心理病理学具有关键意义。
