Toward Developing Laboratory-Based Parent-Adolescent Conflict Discussion Tasks that Consistently Elicit Adolescent Conflict-Related Stress Responses: Support from Physiology and Observed Behavior.
Toward Developing Laboratory-Based Parent-Adolescent Conflict Discussion Tasks that Consistently Elicit Adolescent Conflict-Related Stress Responses: Support from Physiology and Observed Behavior.
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开发基于实验室的父母-青少年冲突讨论任务，持续引发青少年冲突相关的压力反应：生理学和观察到的行为的支持。
DOI：
10.1007/s10826-017-0844-z
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发表时间：
2017
影响因子：
2.1
通讯作者：
DeLosReyes,Andres
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作者：
Thomas,SarahA;Wilson,Tristan;Jain,Anjali;Deros,DanielleE;Um,Miji;Hurwitz,Joanna;Jacobs,Irene;Myerberg,Lindsay;Ehrlich,KatherineB;Dunn,EmilyJ;Aldao,Amelia;Stadnik,Ryan;DeLosReyes,Andres
父母与青少年的冲突会给青少年带来适应不良的风险。这种风险的一个潜在机制是，在冲突互动过程中，压力的增加会导致青少年决策受损。然而，在基于实验室的父母-青少年冲突任务（即冲突讨论任务）中引发一致的青少年压力反应受到任务设计的阻碍。这种限制可能源于如何评估和选择讨论的冲突主题。在 47 名青少年（14-17 岁）和父母的样本中，我们研究了冲突讨论任务的修改版本是否可以引发青少年与冲突相关的压力反应的生理（即唤醒）和行为（即敌意）表现。我们通过结构化访谈评估了父母与青少年的冲突，以确定二人在任务期间讨论的主题。我们随机分配两人完成一项 5 分钟的任务，讨论一个假定的良性主题（即控制条件）或一个冲突主题，同时进行持续唤醒的直接评估。训练有素的评估者对任务期间二人成员的敌对行为进行编码。冲突条件下的青少年比对照条件下的青少年表现出明显更高的唤醒水平。我们观察到讨论条件和基线冲突之间存在相互作用。具体来说，较高的基线冲突预示着冲突条件下的青少年会出现更大的敌对行为，但我们观察到对照条件下的青少年存在相反的关系。我们修改后的实验室讨论任务成功地引发了青少年冲突相关压力的生理和行为表现。这些发现对于利用实验范式来理解父母与青少年冲突与青少年精神病理学之间的因果关系及其潜在机制具有重要意义。
Parent–adolescent conflict poses risk for youth maladjustment. One potential mechanism of this risk is that stress in the form of increased arousal during conflict interactions results in adolescents’ impaired decision-making. However, eliciting consistent adolescent stress responses within laboratory-based tasks of parent–adolescent conflict (i.e., conflict discussion tasks) is hindered by task design. This limitation may stem from how conflict topics are assessed and selected for discussion. Within a sample of 47 adolescents (ages 14–17) and parents, we investigated whether a modified version of a conflict discussion task could elicit physiological (i.e., arousal) and behavioral (i.e., hostility) displays of adolescents’ conflict-related stress responses. We assessed parent–adolescent conflict via structured interview to identify topics for dyads to discuss during the task. We randomly assigned dyads to complete a 5-min task to discuss either a putatively benign topic (i.e., control condition) or a conflict topic while undergoing direct assessments of continuous arousal. Trained raters coded dyad members’ hostile behavior during the task. Adolescents in the conflict condition exhibited significantly greater levels of arousal than adolescents in the control condition. We observed an interaction between discussion condition and baseline conflict. Specifically, higher baseline conflict predicted greater hostile behavior for adolescents in the conflict condition, yet we observed the inverse relation for adolescents in the control condition. Our modified laboratory discussion task successfully elicited both physiological and behavioral displays of adolescent conflict-related stress. These findings have important implications for leveraging experimental paradigms to understand causal links between parent–adolescent conflict and adolescent psychopathology, and their underlying mechanisms.