Feng Xin, Gong Yihui, Chan Meingold Hiu-Ming, Inboden Karis, Wang Qi
Department of Human Sciences, College of Education and Human Ecology, Ohio State University.
British Columbia Children's Hospital Research Institute, University of British Columbia.
Dev Psychol. 2025 Jul 21. doi: 10.1037/dev0002036.
This study examined the role of pandemic-induced changes in family relationships and maternal prepandemic depression in mother-child reminiscing during the pandemic and how this reminiscing in turn related to child outcomes. Mother-preschooler dyads (N = 69) were recruited from a larger longitudinal study, with 45% of mothers having a history of major depressive disorder before the pandemic. The dyads discussed the most positive and negative events (nominated by the mother) that the child experienced during the lockdown period. Mothers' emotion-related utterances were coded for emotion coaching and narrative style. Mothers also reported changing family relationships (family togetherness, household disagreements) during the pandemic prior to the reminiscing task. A principal component analysis on maternal emotion coaching and narrative style revealed two factors: and emotion talk. Regression analyses indicated an interaction between maternal prepandemic depression and household disagreement (i.e., household disagreement was associated with less interactive emotion talk only for mothers with major depressive disorder) and a positive effect of family togetherness in predicting mothers' interactive emotion talk. Further, maternal interactive emotion talk predicted child decreased internalizing symptoms and explanatory emotion talk predicted improved autobiographical memory retrieval. These results underscore the importance of family emotional reminiscing in children's well-being during stressful times. Our findings offer insights for interventions aimed at promoting positive outcomes for children facing adversity. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).
本研究考察了疫情引发的家庭关系变化以及母亲疫情前的抑郁情绪在疫情期间母婴回忆中的作用，以及这种回忆如何反过来与孩子的成长结果相关。从一项更大规模的纵向研究中招募了母亲 - 学龄前儿童二元组（N = 69），其中45%的母亲在疫情前有重度抑郁症病史。二元组讨论了孩子在封锁期间经历的最积极和最消极的事件（由母亲提名）。对母亲与情绪相关的话语进行编码，以分析情绪辅导和叙事风格。母亲们还报告了在回忆任务之前疫情期间家庭关系的变化（家庭团聚、家庭分歧）。对母亲的情绪辅导和叙事风格进行主成分分析，揭示了两个因素： 和情绪谈话。回归分析表明，母亲疫情前的抑郁情绪与家庭分歧之间存在交互作用（即家庭分歧仅与患有重度抑郁症的母亲较少的互动情绪谈话相关），以及家庭团聚对预测母亲的互动情绪谈话有积极影响。此外，母亲的互动情绪谈话预测孩子内化症状减少，解释性情绪谈话预测自传体记忆提取改善。这些结果强调了在压力时期家庭情感回忆对儿童幸福的重要性。我们的研究结果为旨在促进面临逆境的儿童取得积极成果的干预措施提供了见解。（PsycInfo数据库记录（c）2025美国心理学会，保留所有权利）
