Undoing mothers' avoidant coping with children's negative emotion: A randomized controlled trial of relational savoring.

IF 2.3 2区 心理学 Q2 FAMILY STUDIES
Journal of Family Psychology Pub Date : 2024-04-01 Epub Date: 2024-01-22 DOI:10.1037/fam0001186
Patricia A Smiley, Ashley Ahn, M Betsy Blackard, Jessica L Borelli, Stacey N Doan
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Some mothers report using avoidant coping strategies (minimizing, punishing) in response to their young children's negative emotion, an aspect of insensitive parenting that places children at risk for emotional or behavioral dysregulation (Fabes et al., 2001) and insecure attachment (De Wolff & van Ijzendoorn, 1997). In prior work, an in-home attachment-based relational savoring (RS) intervention, administered over a month's time, positively affected maternal emotion and sensitive behavior with young children (Borelli et al., 2023); further, a one-time online RS protocol had greater impacts on emotion and relationship satisfaction for mothers with greater attachment avoidance (Burkhart et al., 2015). However, we do not yet know whether a brief, laboratory intervention impacts highly avoidant mothers' behavior with their children and not just their self-reports of satisfaction. Here, we examine whether mothers' endorsement of avoidant coping strategies moderates the effect of an RS versus active control intervention on mothers' use of emotion-coaching during an emotionally charged conversation with their child. Mothers (N = 122; Mage = 33.42, SD = 5.40) and their preschoolers (Mage = 41.80 months, SD = 4.65; 48.4% female) from diverse backgrounds (41% Latina, 40% White [non-Latina]; 42% under $60,000 annual income) participated. The interaction between condition and level of avoidant coping on mothers' emotion-coaching behaviors was significant. Mothers high in avoidant coping (top quartile) displayed better emotion-coaching during the emotion conversation if they had been in the RS condition. Savoring may be a valuable tool to promote effective emotion-coaching among parents most prone to avoid their children's negative emotion. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved).

消除母亲对子女负面情绪的回避应对:关系品味随机对照试验。
一些母亲报告说,她们使用回避型应对策略(最小化、惩罚)来应对幼儿的负面情绪,这种不敏感的养育方式会使幼儿面临情绪或行为失调(Fabes 等人,2001 年)和依恋不安全(De Wolff 和 van Ijzendoorn,1997 年)的风险。在之前的研究中,一项为期一个月、基于依恋的家庭关系回味(RS)干预对母亲的情绪和对幼儿的敏感行为产生了积极影响(Borelli 等人,2023 年);此外,一项一次性在线 RS 方案对依恋回避程度较高的母亲的情绪和关系满意度产生了更大的影响(Burkhart 等人,2015 年)。然而,我们还不知道简短的实验室干预是否会影响高度回避的母亲与孩子相处的行为,而不仅仅是她们自我报告的满意度。在此,我们研究了母亲对回避型应对策略的认可是否会调节 RS 与积极对照干预对母亲在与孩子进行情绪化对话时使用情绪辅导的影响。母亲(人数 = 122;年龄 = 33.42,标准差 = 5.40)及其学龄前儿童(年龄 = 41.80 个月,标准差 = 4.65;48.4% 为女性)来自不同背景(41% 为拉丁裔,40% 为白人[非拉丁裔];42% 年收入低于 60,000 美元)。母亲情绪辅导行为的条件与回避应对水平之间的交互作用非常显著。回避应对程度高的母亲(前四分位数)在情绪对话中表现出更好的情绪辅导,如果她们是在 RS 条件下的话。对于最容易回避孩子负面情绪的父母来说,回味可能是促进有效情绪辅导的重要工具。(PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, 版权所有)。
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期刊介绍: Journal of Family Psychology offers cutting-edge, groundbreaking, state-of-the-art, and innovative empirical research with real-world applicability in the field of family psychology. This premiere family research journal is devoted to the study of the family system, broadly defined, from multiple perspectives and to the application of psychological methods to advance knowledge related to family research, patterns and processes, and assessment and intervention, as well as to policies relevant to advancing the quality of life for families.
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