Children's patterns of preserving emotional security in the interparental subsystem
Children's patterns of preserving emotional security in the interparental subsystem
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DOI：
10.1111/1467-8624.t01-1-00512
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发表时间：
2002-11-01
影响因子：
4.6
通讯作者：
Forman, EM
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作者：
Davies, PT;Forman, EM
本研究在情绪安全假说的指导下，确定了（1）儿童在父母间关系中维护其情绪安全的策略的个体差异，以及（2）这些个体差异的心理社会和家庭相关因素。研究1评估了56名学龄儿童对父母冲突模拟的反应，而研究2则征求了170名青少年对实际婚姻冲突的反应的儿童和母亲报告。两项研究的聚类分析表明，儿童符合三种类型：（1）安全型儿童，他们表现出良好的调节性关注和对父母间关系的积极表征;（2）不安全型儿童，他们表现出高度的痛苦、卷入或回避，和对父母间关系的消极表征;（3）无安全感儿童，表现出明显的痛苦、回避和卷入，而主观痛苦、回避和干预冲动以及消极的内部表征水平较低。结果表明，在这两项研究中，专注和解雇的儿童经历了更多的父母之间的冲突比安全的儿童和专注的儿童证明了最高水平的内化症状。研究2的结果表明，解雇的儿童有最高水平的外化症状和全神贯注和解雇的儿童报告更多的应对，家庭和个性的困难比安全的儿童。
Guided by the emotional security hypothesis, this research identified (1) individual differences in children's strategies for preserving their emotional security in the interparental relationship, and (2) the psychosocial and family correlates of these individual differences. Study 1 assessed reactivity to parental conflict simulations among 56 school-age children, whereas Study 2 solicited child and mother reports of 170 young adolescents' reactions to actual marital conflict. Cluster analyses in both studies indicated that children fit three profiles: (1) secure children, who showed well-regulated concern and positive representations of interparental relationships; (2) insecure-preoccupied children, who evidenced heightened distress, involvement or avoidance, and negative representations of interparental relationships; and (3) insecure-dismissing children, who displayed overt signs of elevated distress, avoidance, and involvement and low levels of subjective distress, avoidance and intervention impulses, and negative internal representations. Results in both studies indicated that preoccupied and dismissing children experienced more interparental conflict than did secure children and preoccupied children evidenced the highest levels of internalizing symptoms. Study 2 results indicated that dismissing children had the highest levels of externalizing symptoms and preoccupied and dismissing children reported more coping, family, and personality difficulties than did secure children.