Individual Differences in Adolescents' Sympathetic and Parasympathetic Functioning Moderate Associations Between Family Environment and Psychosocial Adjustment
Individual Differences in Adolescents' Sympathetic and Parasympathetic Functioning Moderate Associations Between Family Environment and Psychosocial Adjustment
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DOI：
10.1037/a0026901
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发表时间：
2012-07-01
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4
通讯作者：
Cribbet, Matthew R.
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作者：
Diamond, Lisa M.;Fagundes, Christopher P.;Cribbet, Matthew R.
本研究旨在探讨自主神经系统功能的个体差异是否与环境危险因素相互作用，以预测青少年的心理社会功能。作者评估了110名14岁的青少年在休息时和实验室压力下的皮肤电导和呼吸性窦性心律失常。随后，青少年和他们的母亲提供了问卷调查和每日日记数据（超过10天）的情绪和人际功能。作者发现，在具有特定的紧张和压力诱导的交感神经系统和副交感神经系统活动模式的青少年中，环境风险因素（单身母亲家庭或具有高度内化问题的母亲）与心理社会结果（外化问题，日常负面影响和日常互动质量）之间存在更强的关联，但男孩和女孩之间的调节效应模式不同。研究结果支持了这样的观点，即自主神经功能指数的个体差异在青年对环境危险因素的易感性变化。
The present study tested whether individual differences in autonomic nervous system functioning interact with environmental risk factors to predict adolescents' psychosocial functioning. The authors assessed skin conductance and respiratory sinus arrhythmia at rest and during laboratory stressors in 110 14-year-olds. Subsequently, adolescents and their mothers provided both questionnaire and daily diary data (over 10 days) on emotional and interpersonal functioning. The authors found stronger associations between environmental risk factors (having a single-mother household or a mother with high internalizing problems) and psychosocial outcomes (externalizing problems, daily negative affect, and daily interaction quality) among youths with specific patterns of tonic and stress-induced sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous system activity, but the pattern of moderating effects differed between boys and girls. The findings support the notion that individual differences in autonomic functioning index variation in youth's susceptibility to environmental risk factors.