Affective language spreads between anxious children and their mothers during a challenging puzzle task.
Affective language spreads between anxious children and their mothers during a challenging puzzle task.
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10.1037/emo0001203
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2023-01
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4.2
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Erik C. Nook;Cristina Nardini;Sadie J. Zacharek;Grace Hommel;Hannah Spencer;Alyssa Martino;Allison Morra;Silvia Flores;Tess M. Anderson;Carla E Marin;W. Silverman;Eli R. Lebowitz;D. Gee
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作者：
Erik C. Nook;Cristina Nardini;Sadie J. Zacharek;Grace Hommel;Hannah Spencer;Alyssa Martino;Allison Morra;Silvia Flores;Tess M. Anderson;Carla E Marin;W. Silverman;Eli R. Lebowitz;D. Gee
人类会互相影响彼此的情绪。情绪的传播在行为、心理生理学和神经科学的分析层面都有详细记录，但这种影响在语言中是否也很明显（例如，人们在听到别人使用情绪词后是否更有可能使用它们）？目前的研究测试了母亲和孩子是否会影响彼此使用情感语言。 2018年至2020年，符合焦虑症诊断标准的6-12岁儿童及其母亲（N = 93对）在视频录制的同时完成了一项具有挑战性的拼图任务。对转录的分析表明，母亲和孩子确实影响了彼此的语言。观察到消极情感词的使用存在双向影响：如果孩子刚刚使用了消极情感词（超出了上一轮母亲自己的语言），那么母亲更有可能使用消极情感词，并且孩子也同样受到母亲情感词使用的影响。语言距离也出现了类似的双向关系，语言距离是一种与有效情绪调节和心理健康相关的衡量标准。然而，从孩子到母亲的影响方向对这两个变量的影响的显着性根据校正阈值而变化，因此应该在未来的研究中得到验证。尽管如此，这些发现通过显示情感语言的使用之间的逐步关系扩展了对情感影响的理解。 （PsycInfo 数据库记录 (c) 2023 APA，保留所有权利）。
Humans influence each other's emotions. The spread of emotion is well documented across behavioral, psychophysiological, and neuroscientific levels of analysis, but might this influence also be evident in language (e.g., are people more likely to use emotion words after hearing someone else use them)? The current study tests whether mothers and children influence each other's use of affective language. From 2018 to 2020, children aged 6-12 who met diagnostic criteria for anxiety disorders and their mothers (N = 93 dyads) completed a challenging puzzle task while being video recorded. Analyses of transcriptions revealed that mothers and children indeed influenced each other's language. Bidirectional influence was observed for use of negative affect words: Mothers were more likely to use negative affect words if their child had just used negative affect words (over and above mothers' own language on their previous turn), and children were similarly influenced by mother affect word use. A similar bidirectional relation emerged for linguistic distance, a measure related to effective emotion regulation and mental health. However, the significance of the child-to-mother direction of influence for these two variables varied depending on correction threshold and should thus be verified in future research. Nonetheless, these findings extend understanding of emotional influence by showing turn-by-turn relations between the use of affective language. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved).