Emotion-related abilities and depressive symptoms in Latina mothers and their children
Emotion-related abilities and depressive symptoms in Latina mothers and their children
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DOI：
10.1017/s0954579404044426
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发表时间：
2004-12-01
影响因子：
3.3
通讯作者：
Siegel, L
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作者：
Arsenio, WF;Sesin, M;Siegel, L
本研究考察了40名拉丁裔母亲及其6至11岁的孩子（20名女孩，20名男孩）识别和产生情绪表达的能力，以及这些能力作为母亲抑郁症状的功能如何不同。结果表明，有抑郁症状的母亲在识别基本情绪（如快乐、悲伤等）和一些混合情绪（如害怕/ok组合）方面的准确性低于无抑郁症状的母亲，但在情绪产生方面没有组间差异。相比之下，有症状母亲的孩子比同龄人表现出更少可识别的悲伤表情。错误模式分析还显示，有症状母亲的孩子更有可能错误地认识到快乐，并避免表现出悲伤（在所有基本情绪中）。儿童表达情绪的能力与母亲的情绪产生有关，而母亲的抑郁症状并没有缓和这种能力。讨论的重点是这些偏见和有症状的母亲及其子女在情绪相关能力方面的缺陷可能造成的人际关系后果，以及对可能构成这些发现的家庭和文化过程进行研究的必要性。
This study examined the abilities of 40 Latina mothers and their 6- to 11-year-old children (20 girls, 20 boys) to recognize and produce emotion expressions and how these abilities differed as a function of maternal depressive symptoms. The results indicated that depressively symptomatic mothers were less accurate at recognizing basic emotions (e.g., happy, sad, etc.) and some mixed emotions (e.g., scared/ok combinations) than nonsymptomatic mothers, but there were no group differences for emotion production. In contrast, children of symptomatic mothers posed fewer recognizable sad expressions than their peers. Error pattern analyses also revealed that children of symptomatic mothers were more likely to: mistakenly recognize happiness and to avoid posing sadness (across all basic emotions). Children's ability to pose emotions was related to their mothers' emotion production, and this was not moderated by maternal depressive symptoms. The discussion focuses on the possible interpersonal consequences of these biases and deficits in the emotion-related abilities of symptomatic mothers and their children and on the need to conduct research on the familial and cultural processes that might underlie these findings.