Longitudinal Associations Between Emotion Regulation and Depression in Preadolescent Girls: Moderation by the Caregiving Environment
Longitudinal Associations Between Emotion Regulation and Depression in Preadolescent Girls: Moderation by the Caregiving Environment
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DOI：
10.1037/a0014617
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发表时间：
2009-05-01
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4
通讯作者：
Babinski, Dara E.
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作者：
Feng, Xin;Keenan, Kate;Babinski, Dara E.
确定儿童时期抑郁的先兆是具有挑战性的，但对于理解青春期女孩抑郁率的迅速上升很重要。本研究考察了青春期前女孩情绪调节和父母教养方式与抑郁症状的关系。参与者是225名儿童及其亲生母亲，他们是从一项更大的纵向社区研究中招募的。在9岁时，对女孩在与母亲的冲突解决任务中观察到的积极和消极情绪，调节悲伤和愤怒的能力，以及对父母接受和心理控制的感知进行了评估。在9岁和10岁时，采用自我报告的方式评估了抑郁症状。结果表明，儿童情绪特征和父母教养方式在预测未来抑郁方面存在交互作用。具体地说，在中度到高度的父母心理控制的背景下，低水平的积极情绪表达预示着更高水平的抑郁症状。在父母接受程度低到中等的情况下，低水平的悲伤调节预示着高水平的抑郁症状。这项研究的发现支持这样一种假设，即情绪调节方面的脆弱性与抑郁之间的预期关联受到照看环境的影响。
Identifying childhood precursors for depression has been challenging and yet important for understanding the rapid increase in the rate of depression among adolescent girls. This study examined the prospective relations of preadolescent girls' emotion regulation and parenting style with depressive symptoms. Participants were 225 children and their biological mothers recruited from a larger longitudinal community Study. Girls' observed positive and negative emotion during a conflict resolution task with mothers, their ability to regulate sadness and anger, and their perception of parental acceptance and psychological control were assessed at age 9. Depressive symptoms were assessed by self-report at ages 9 and 10. The results indicated interactions between child emotion characteristics and parenting in predicting later depression. Specifically, low levels of positive emotion expression predicted higher levels of depressive symptoms in the context of moderate to high parental psychological control. Low levels of sadness regulation were predictive of high levels of depressive symptoms in the context of low to moderate parental acceptance. Findings from this study support the hypothesis that the prospective association between vulnerabilities in emotion regulation and depression are moderated by the caregiving environment.