Maternal frustration, emotional and behavioural responses to prolonged infant crying
Maternal frustration, emotional and behavioural responses to prolonged infant crying
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DOI：
10.1016/j.infbeh.2014.08.012
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发表时间：
2014-11-01
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2.1
通讯作者：
Brant, Rollin
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作者：
Barr, Ronald G.;Fairbrother, Nicole;Brant, Rollin
在生命的最初几个月里，长时间的伤心欲绝的哭泣会让父母感到沮丧，并可能导致虐待。对于长时间哭泣期间的挫败轨迹，也没有经验性的描述，也没有其情绪预测因素或情绪和行为后遗症。本研究采用模拟哭听实验范式，探讨了挫折反应及其相互关系。在不知道这种情况会持续多久的情况下，111名产后母亲被随机分配听了10分钟的婴儿哭泣或咕咕声的录音带，同时在视觉模拟“滑块”量表上连续记录挫折感。在倾听之前进行了关于消极情绪，特质愤怒和同理心的问卷调查，然后进行了关于哭泣声音，积极和消极情绪，舒缓策略，应对策略以及安慰和逃离冲动的问卷调查。个体挫折轨迹进行了参数化建模，其特征在于挫折最大值，上升率，曲折和谐波参数。正如假设的那样，模态反应是逐渐增加的挫折感。然而，有显着的挫折轨迹的个体差异。消极情绪，特质愤怒和移情没有预测模态或模拟个人轨迹。然而，挫折反应显着相关的听后情绪和行为评级。特别是，长时间的哭泣会产生高度矛盾的积极和消极情绪反应。总之，母亲的挫折感一般会随着哭泣回合的进展而增加;然而，挫折轨迹是高度个性化的，情绪反应在产生的积极和消极情绪方面是高度矛盾的。一些情绪和行为反应与挫折反应的特定轨迹参数相关。(C)2014 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
Prolonged inconsolable crying bouts in the first months of life are frustrating to parents and may lead to abuse. There is no empirical description of frustration trajectories during prolonged crying, nor of their emotional predictors or emotional and behavioural sequelae. Frustration responses and their relationships were explored in an analogue cry listening paradigm. Without knowing how long it would last, 111 postpartum mothers were randomized to listen to a 10-min audiotape of infant crying or cooing while continuously recording frustration on a visual analogue 'slider' scale. The listening bout was preceded by questionnaires on negative mood, trait anger and empathy and followed by questionnaires on the reality of the cry sound, positive and negative emotions, soothing strategies, coping strategies and urges to comfort and flee. Individual frustration trajectories were modelled parametrically and characterized by frustration maximum, rate of rise, inflections and harmonicity parameters. As hypothesized, the modal response was of gradually increasing frustration throughout. However, there were marked individual differences in frustration trajectories. Negative mood, trait anger and empathy did not predict modal or modelled individual trajectories. However, frustration responses were significantly related to post-listening emotions and behavioural ratings. In particular, prolonged crying generated highly ambivalent positive and negative emotional responses. In summary, maternal frustration generally increased as the crying bout progressed; however, frustration trajectories were highly individual and emotional responses were highly ambivalent in terms of positive and negative emotions generated. Some emotional and behavioural responses were associated with specific trajectory parameters of frustration responses. (C) 2014 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.