You get what you get and you don't throw a fit!: Emotion socialization and child physiology jointly predict early prosocial development.
You get what you get and you don't throw a fit!: Emotion socialization and child physiology jointly predict early prosocial development.
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DOI：
10.1037/dev0000071
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发表时间：
2016-01
影响因子：
4
通讯作者：
Buss KA
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作者：
Scrimgeour MB;Davis EL;Buss KA
儿童早期的亲社会行为是后来适应性社会功能的前兆。这项调查利用母亲报告的，生理和观察数据，以检查儿童的亲社会发展，从2岁到4岁（N = 125）。母亲的情绪社会化（ES）策略和儿童的副交感神经调节都与亲社会行为有关，但很少一起或前瞻性地进行研究。鉴于亲子关系的交易性质，母亲ES策略对儿童的亲社会行为的影响可能是由儿童的副交感神经调节的个体差异调节。正如预测的那样，母亲报告的使用问题为中心的ES策略预测亲社会行为在4岁。此外，在实验室失望任务中表现出副交感神经反应与更有效的情绪调节一致的儿童在4岁时被评为更亲社会。出现了一些与母体ES策略的相互作用。儿童的副交感神经调节调节观察到的身体舒适或认知重构和亲社会行为之间的关系。观察到的分心（无论是行为或认知）之间的联系缓和母亲的报告使用问题为中心的ES策略和儿童的亲社会行为。研究结果表明，儿童的亲社会行为的形成是由互动的贡献，人际母亲ES以及个人内在的生理调节。
Prosocial behavior in early childhood is a precursor to later adaptive social functioning. This investigation leveraged mother-reported, physiological, and observational data to examine children’s prosocial development from age 2 to age 4 (N = 125). Maternal emotion socialization (ES) strategies and children’s parasympathetic regulation have each been implicated in prosocial behavior, but are rarely examined together or prospectively. Given the transactional nature of parent-child relationships, the effects of maternal ES strategies on children’s prosocial behavior are likely moderated by children’s individual differences in parasympathetic regulation. As predicted, mothers’ reported use of problem-focused ES strategies predicted prosocial behavior at age 4. Additionally, children who showed parasympathetic reactivity consistent with more effective emotion regulation during a lab-based disappointment task were rated as more prosocial at age 4. Several interactions with maternal ES strategies emerged. Children’s parasympathetic regulation moderated the relations between observed physical comfort or cognitive reframing and prosocial behavior. Observed distraction (either behavioral or cognitive) moderated the link between mothers’ reported use of problem-focused ES strategies and children’s prosocial behavior. Findings suggest that children’s emerging prosocial behavior is shaped by the interactive contributions of inter-personal maternal ES as well as intra-personal intrinsic physiological regulation.