积极的重新评估应对介绍了父母虐待和缺乏成年人的感情之间的关系,一般化焦虑严重程度
Matthew H S Ng1, Nur Hani Zainal2, Michelle Gayle Newman3
1Rehabilitation Research Institute of Singapore, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.
Journal of anxiety disorders
|January 20, 2024
概括
童年经历的父母虐待和缺少感情影响成人普遍焦虑障碍 (GAD) 症状. 积极的重新评估应对介于这种联系,为GAD提供了潜在的治疗点.
科学领域:
- 心理学 心理学 心理学
- 临床心理学 临床心理学
- 发展心理学 发展心理学
背景情况:
- 童年虐待和父母的缺少感情是成年心理病理的确立风险因素.
- 积极的重新评估,一种认知应对策略,可以解释早期生活经历如何影响以后的心理健康结果.
研究的目的:
- 调查积极的重新评估应对是否调解了童年父母虐待/感情和成人普遍焦虑症 (GAD) 症状之间的关联.
- 通过认知重新评估的透视来研究早期生活逆境和GAD发展之间的纵向关系.
主要方法:
- 在美国中年发展研究中,利用了3,294名参与者的数据,在9年内收集了三个波的数据.
- 采用纵向结构方程调解建模来评估正反评估在时间2的调解作用.
- 控制了基线GAD症状在时间1时预测GAD症状在时间3.
主要成果:
- 积极的重新评估应对显着调解了童年母亲/父亲虐待和GAD症状严重程度之间的关系.
- 积极的重新评估应对也调解了童年母亲/父亲感情和GAD症状严重程度之间的关系.
- 母亲和父亲的虐待与较低的积极再评估相关,预测更高的GAD症状,而更高的感情与增加的积极再评估相关,预测更低的GAD症状.
结论:
- 积极的重新评估应对是将童年虐待和感情经历与成人GAD症状严重程度联系起来的重要机制.
- 从童年虐待到GAD严重程度的中介途径通过积极的重新评估对于母亲的虐待是显著的,但不是父亲的虐待.
- 通过积极的重新评估,父母对母亲和父亲的亲情仍然是GAD严重程度的重要预测因素,突出了积极的早期关系的持久影响.
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