Maternal Attachment Style and Responses to Adolescents' Negative Emotions: The Mediating Role of Maternal Emotion Regulation
Maternal Attachment Style and Responses to Adolescents' Negative Emotions: The Mediating Role of Maternal Emotion Regulation
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DOI：
10.1080/15295192.2014.972760
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发表时间：
2014-10-02
影响因子：
2.2
通讯作者：
Cassidy, Jude
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作者：
Jones, Jason D.;Brett, Bonnie E.;Cassidy, Jude
目标。以前的研究已经研究了父母对儿童负面情绪的支持和不支持反应的发展后果，特别是在幼儿期。对于父母为什么会以支持或破坏孩子情绪的方式做出反应的因素，我们知道的要少得多，对于这些养育过程如何在青少年身上展开，我们知道的就更少了。在本研究中，研究人员研究了母亲的依恋风格与两年后对青少年负面情绪的痛苦，严厉和支持反应之间的关联，以及这些联系是否由母亲的情绪调节困难介导。设计在一项纵向研究（n = 230）的母亲报告了他们的依恋风格，调节自己的情绪困难，他们的假设反应，他们的青少年的负面情绪，分别在连续的实验室访问一年。结果一年后，那些表现出更大依恋相关回避和焦虑的母亲在情绪调节方面表现出更大的困难。情绪失调，反过来，预测更多的痛苦，更苛刻，更少的支持性母亲的反应，青少年的负面情绪的第二年。此外，更大的回避直接预测两年后更严厉的母亲反应。结论.这些发现扩展了以前的研究，确定母亲的依恋风格作为一个预测器的反应，青少年的困扰，并记录的潜在作用，情绪失调的成人依恋风格和养育之间的联系。
SYNOPSISObjective. Previous research has examined the developmental consequences, particularly in early childhood, of parents' supportive and unsupportive responses to children's negative emotions. Much less is known about factors that explain why parents respond in ways that may support or undermine their children's emotions, and even less is known about how these parenting processes unfold with adolescents. In the present study, researchers examined the associations between mothers' attachment styles and their distress, harsh, and supportive responses to their adolescents' negative emotions two years later and whether these links were mediated by maternal emotion regulation difficulties. Design. Mothers in a longitudinal study (n = 230) reported on their attachment style, difficulties regulating their emotions, and their hypothetical responses to their adolescents' negative emotions, respectively, at consecutive laboratory visits one year apart. Results. Mothers who reported greater attachment-related avoidance and anxiety reported having greater difficulties with emotion regulation one year later. Emotion dysregulation, in turn, predicted more distressed, harsher, and less supportive maternal responses to adolescents' negative emotions the following year. In addition, greater avoidance directly predicted harsher maternal responses two years later. Conclusions. These findings extend previous research by identifying maternal attachment style as a predictor of responses to adolescent distress and by documenting the underlying role of emotion dysregulation in the link between adult attachment style and parenting.