Early home environments and reward-processing in adolescence: The unique role of harsh parenting

IF 3.4 2区心理学 Q1 FAMILY STUDIES

Child Abuse & Neglect Pub Date : 2025-09-29 DOI:10.1016/j.chiabu.2025.107699

Eirini Flouri , Efstathios Papachristou , Dimitris I. Tsomokos

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Abstract

Background

Reward-processing, i.e., how one evaluates potential reward and punishment and how one uses this information to make decisions, is strongly related to mental health and is especially useful for understanding motivation, in turn associated with many health, educational and socio-economic outcomes. Research has yet to explore the role of the home's emotional and physical environment early in life on reward-processing in adolescence, a period characterised by increased reward sensitivity.

Objective

We carried out this study to fill this gap.

Participants and setting

We used data from the Millennium Cohort Study, a large, nationally-representative longitudinal birth cohort in the UK.

Methods

We explored reward-based decision-making (using the Cambridge Gambling Task [CGT]) at age 11 years as a function of three aspects of the home environment at age 3 years (assessed by the Short Form of the Home Observation Measurement of the Environment [HOME-SF]): physical organisation of the home, mother's emotional and verbal responsivity, and mother's use of harsh discipline (N = 10,202).

Results

Harsh discipline was significantly associated with risk-taking but no other measure on the CGT. Physical organisation and maternal responsivity were not related to any CGT measures. The association between harsh discipline and risk-taking was robust to adjustment for the other HOME-SF variables and confounders including sex, ethnicity, developmental milestones, family income, family structure, home overcrowding, maternal mental health and maternal education but also current (age 11) cognitive ability and pubertal status.

Conclusions

Harsh parenting early in life increases reward sensitivity (or decreases punishment sensitivity) on the cusp of adolescence.

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青少年早期的家庭环境和奖励处理：严厉父母的独特作用。

背景：奖励处理，即一个人如何评估潜在的奖励和惩罚以及一个人如何利用这些信息做出决定，与心理健康密切相关，对理解动机特别有用，而动机又与许多健康、教育和社会经济结果有关。研究还没有探索家庭的情感和物质环境在青少年奖励处理过程中的作用，这一时期的特点是奖励敏感性增加。目的：为了填补这一空白，我们开展了这项研究。参与者和环境：我们使用了来自千禧年队列研究的数据，这是一个在英国具有全国代表性的大型纵向出生队列。方法：我们研究了11岁时基于奖励的决策（使用剑桥赌博任务[CGT]）作为3岁时家庭环境三个方面（通过家庭环境观察测量简表[home - sf]评估）的函数：家庭的物理组织，母亲的情感和语言反应，以及母亲使用严厉的纪律（N = 10,202）。结果：严厉的纪律与冒险行为显著相关，但在CGT上没有其他措施。身体组织和产妇反应与任何CGT措施无关。严厉管教与冒险行为之间的关联在其他home - sf变量和混杂因素（包括性别、种族、发展里程碑、家庭收入、家庭结构、家庭过度拥挤、母亲心理健康和母亲教育，以及当前（11岁）的认知能力和青春期状态）的调整下是稳健的。结论：早期严厉的父母教育增加了青春期的奖励敏感性（或降低了惩罚敏感性）。

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Child Abuse & Neglect Multiple-

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7.40

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10.40%

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397

期刊介绍： Official Publication of the International Society for Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect. Child Abuse & Neglect The International Journal, provides an international, multidisciplinary forum on all aspects of child abuse and neglect, with special emphasis on prevention and treatment; the scope extends further to all those aspects of life which either favor or hinder child development. While contributions will primarily be from the fields of psychology, psychiatry, social work, medicine, nursing, law enforcement, legislature, education, and anthropology, the Journal encourages the concerned lay individual and child-oriented advocate organizations to contribute.