Diamond D, Doane J A
Department of Psychiatry, Cornell University Medical College, New York Hospital, White Plains 10605.
Br J Psychiatry. 1994 Jun;164(6):770-81. doi: 10.1192/bjp.164.6.770.
The relationship between the quality of parents' attachment to their own parents and the quality of affective style was examined with a sample of 49 severely disturbed young adults and adolescents and their families receiving long-term in-patient treatment. Measures reflecting disturbances in attachment of parents to their own parents, derived from a five-minute speech sample task, were strongly associated with measures of negative affective style (e.g., criticism, intrusiveness and guilt induction) in face-to-face interactions with the disturbed offspring, as assessed through videotaped discussions of conflictual family issues after three months of treatment. The most significant findings involved the linkages between disturbances in the mother's attachment to her own mother and the degree of negative affect directed at the child patient. The association between disturbed intergenerational parental attachments and negative affective style supports the hypothesis that the parent's own internal burdens, stemming from disturbed attachment representations, particularly of the same-sex parent, may be a driving force behind the negative affect they display in interactions with their disturbed offspring.
对49名患有严重精神障碍的年轻人和青少年及其接受长期住院治疗的家庭进行了抽样调查，研究了父母与自己父母的依恋质量与情感风格质量之间的关系。从五分钟的言语样本任务中得出的反映父母与自己父母依恋障碍的测量指标，与在治疗三个月后通过录像讨论冲突性家庭问题所评估的、与受精神障碍困扰的后代面对面互动中的消极情感风格测量指标（如批评、侵扰和内疚诱导）密切相关。最显著的发现涉及母亲与自己母亲的依恋障碍与指向儿童患者的消极情感程度之间的联系。代际间父母依恋障碍与消极情感风格之间的关联支持了这样一种假设，即父母自身源于依恋表征紊乱，尤其是同性父母的紊乱所带来的内心负担，可能是他们在与受精神障碍困扰的后代互动中表现出消极情感的驱动力。
