Emotion & Intimate Partner Aggression: Processes & Outcomes in Parents & Children

描述（由申请人提供）：为了了解亲密伴侣攻击（IPA）对家庭互动的影响，本研究通过复杂的技术辅助的情感成分评估和前沿的统计方法，在冲突家庭讨论的重要人际背景下考察了情感过程。具体目标包括检查：(a)家庭成员内部和家庭成员之间的情感成分（唤醒、效价和接近/回避行为）与亲密伴侣攻击（IPA）之间的关联；(b)情绪成分作为三年间青少年和父母IPA与抑郁、焦虑、创伤后应激障碍症状和关系质量之间纵向关联的中介；(c)种族和儿童性别是IPA、情绪成分、抑郁、焦虑、创伤后应激障碍症状和关系质量之间关联的调节因素。这项拟议的研究考察了丈夫和妻子的生理和心理IPA，并通过声音基本频率、面部表情、凝视、手势、触摸和姿势，在152个不同种族的家庭中，在过去一年和夫妇的历史中，母亲、父亲和青春期孩子之间的3人冲突互动中，考察了情感的组成部分，这些家庭的IPA水平各不相同。将情感成分的单独测量与线性和动态分析相结合，可以对家庭成员之间的情感反应周期进行敏感的调查。将青少年纳入这些讨论中，可以在家庭系统层面上检查互动过程中的情绪，并分析冲突相关情绪对青少年心理和关系结果的影响，为IPA文献提供了一个研究不足的发展期。在IPA家庭中，青少年在冲突中情绪反应的性别差异可能与儿童早期的情况不同，但尚未进行探索。同样，在研究IPA家庭中与冲突相关的情绪时，种族问题也很少受到关注，但相关文献的研究结果表明，可能存在重要差异。拟议的研究是对发起人关于暴力对儿童影响的更大研究的一部分，并受益于关于IPA、成人抑郁、焦虑和创伤后应激障碍症状、青少年内化和外化行为以及婚姻和父母/子女关系质量的多波数据。利用多波数据，可以探索情绪成分作为IPA纵向稳定性的预测因子，以及作为IPA与心理和相关结果之间纵向关联的中介。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): To understand the impact of intimate partner aggression (IPA) on family interaction, this study examines emotional processes through sophisticated technology-assisted assessment of emotional components and cutting-edge statistical methods in the important interpersonal context of conflictual family discussion. Specific aims include examination of: (a) associations between components of emotion (arousal, valence, and approach/ avoidance behaviors) and intimate partner aggression (IPA) within and between family members; (b) components of emotion as mediators of the longitudinal associations between IPA and symptoms of depression, anxiety, PTSD and relationship quality over a 3-year period for youth and parents; and, (c) ethnicity and child gender as moderators of the associations between IPA, emotion components, and symptoms of depression, anxiety, PTSD and relationship quality. The proposed research examines both husbands' and wives' physical and psychological IPA and examines components of emotion using vocal fundamental frequency, facial expressions, and gaze, gesture, touch, and posture during 3-person conflict interactions between mothers, fathers and their adolescent child in 152 ethnically diverse families with varying levels of IPA in the past year and over the couple's history. Combining separate measurement of emotional components with linear and dynamic analyses allows for sensitive investigation of cycles of emotional responding between family members. Inclusion of adolescents in these discussions permits examination of emotion during interaction at the family system level, and analysis of the effects of conflict- related emotion on adolescent psychological and relational outcomes adds to the IPA literature on an under- researched developmental period. Gender differences in adolescent's emotional responses during conflict in IPA families are likely to be different from those seen earlier in childhood but have yet to be explored. Likewise, ethnicity has received scant attention in research examining conflict-related emotion in IPA families but findings from related literatures suggest that important differences are likely to exist. The proposed research is embedded in a larger study of the sponsor on the effects of violence on children, and benefits from having multiple waves of data on IPA, adult symptoms of depression, anxiety, and PTSD, adolescent internalizing and externalizing behaviors, and marital and parent/child relationship quality. With multi-wave data, emotion components can be explored as predictors of the longitudinal stability of IPA and as mediators of the longitudinal associations between IPA and psychological and relational outcomes.