青少年期末思维的特点:比较童年虐待,自闭症谱系和典型发展情况
A Lau-Zhu1,2,3, C Chan4, D Gibson4
1Department of Experimental Psychology, Medical Sciences Division, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK. alex.lauzhu@psy.ox.ac.uk.
Research on child and adolescent psychopathology
|August 21, 2024
概括
经历虐待的青少年比通常发展的同龄人产生更少的特定未来事件. 插曲性未来思维 (FT) 可能是虐待或自闭症青少年的治疗目标.
科学领域:
- 认知心理学 认知心理学
- 发展心理学 发展心理学
- 临床心理学 临床心理学
背景情况:
- 虐待和自闭症有着共同的功能困难和心理健康问题.
- 情节性未来思维 (FT) 是一种潜在影响这些群体的认知过程.
- 了解认知概况可以为评估和干预提供信息.
研究的目的:
- 为了比较青少年与虐待,自闭症和典型发育的情节性未来思维 (FT).
- 探索FT特异性与心理健康症状之间的关联.
主要方法:
- 三组青少年 (虐待,自闭症,典型发育) 进行了比较 (N=85).
- 参与者完成了在线自传未来思维测试.
- 人口因素 (年龄,性别,社会经济地位) 被匹配.
主要成果:
- 虐待小组比典型的发展小组产生明显更少的特定未来事件.
- 自闭症和其他群体之间没有发现FT特异性的显著差异.
- 在所有组中,较低的FT特异性与抑郁症状增加相关.
结论:
- 与典型的发展同龄人相比,遭受虐待的青少年在未来的思维中表现出明显的差异.
- 在这个群体中,FT特异性在自闭症和典型发展之间可能没有显著差异.
- FT成为虐待和/或自闭症青少年的潜在治疗目标.
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