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性(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尖端统计方法，在冲突的家庭讨论这一重要的人际背景下考察了情感过程。具体目标包括审查：(A)家庭成员内部和之间的情绪成分(唤醒、效价和接近/回避行为)与亲密伴侣攻击(IPA)之间的联系；(B)作为IPA与抑郁、焦虑、创伤后应激障碍和关系质量之间纵向联系的中介的情绪成分；以及(C)种族和儿童性别，作为IPA、情绪成分和抑郁、焦虑、创伤后应激障碍和关系质量症状之间关系的调节因素。这项拟议的研究检查了丈夫和妻子的生理和心理IPA，并使用声音基频、面部表情以及在母亲、父亲和他们青春期的孩子之间进行三人冲突互动时的凝视、手势、触摸和姿势来检查情感成分，这些家庭来自不同种族，在过去一年和夫妇的历史上有不同程度的IPA。将情绪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绪反应周期进行敏感的调查。将青少年纳入这些讨论可以在家庭系统层面对互动期间的情绪进行检查，对冲突相关情绪对青少年心理和关系结果的影响的分析增加了IPA关于研究不足的发展时期的文献。在IPA家庭中，青少年在冲突期间的情绪反应的性别差异可能与童年早期看到的不同，但尚未得到探索。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，可能存在重要的差异。这项拟议的研究嵌入了赞助商关于暴力对儿童的影响的更大规模的研究中，并受益于拥有关于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亲子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IPA与心理和关系结果之间纵向关联的中介变量。

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.