Parents' Communication Skills and Adolescents' Salivary α-Amylase and Cortisol Response Patterns
Parents' Communication Skills and Adolescents' Salivary α-Amylase and Cortisol Response Patterns
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DOI：
10.1080/03637751.2011.589460
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发表时间：
2011-01-01
影响因子：
2.5
通讯作者：
Aldeis, Desiree
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作者：
Afifi, Tamara D.;Granger, Douglas A.;Aldeis, Desiree
本研究的主要目的是检查青少年的下丘脑-垂体-肾上腺轴（HPA）（通过皮质醇测量）和交感神经系统（SNS）（通过唾液α淀粉酶或sAA测量）反应的模式或分组，作为其父母沟通技能的函数。一个相关的目标是破译是否青少年表现出不同的生理反应模式在他们的个人和关系健康不同。研究对象为118名父母-青少年，被试被要求谈论与父母关系有关的压力。结果显示，青少年的看法，他们的父母的沟通技巧预测的可能性，青少年会反应过度，没有反应，或下调，以回应这样的讨论，但只有sAA。所有的沟通技巧的问题，社会支持，沟通能力，感觉陷入父母的冲突，和不适当的assures-supported假设，青少年与他们认为是更沟通技巧的父母更能够从一个紧张的互动比青少年的父母是不太熟练的恢复。在sAA中被认为是“过度反应”的青少年也有更多的负面健康指数，心理健康水平较低，与父母的关系质量较差。
The primary goal of this study was to examine patterns or groupings of adolescents' hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis (HPA) (measured through cortisol) and sympathetic nervous system (SNS) (measured through salivary alpha amylase or sAA) responses as a function of their parents' communication skills. A related goal was to decipher whether adolescents who demonstrate different patterns of physiological reactivity vary in their personal and relational health. The sample consisted of 118 parent-adolescent dyads who were asked to talk about something stressful related to the parents' relationship. The results revealed that adolescents' perceptions of their parent's communication skills predicted the likelihood that the adolescents would overreact, show no reaction, or down regulate in response to such a discussion, but only for sAA. All of the communication skills in question-social support, communication competence, feeling caught between the parents' conflict, and inappropriate disclosures-supported the hypothesis that adolescents with parents who they think are more communicatively skilled are better able to recover from a stressful interaction than adolescents whose parents are less skilled. Adolescents who were considered "overreactors" in sAA also had more negative health indices, somewhat lower psychological well-being, and poorer quality relationships with their parents.