Children’s Emotional Reactivity to Emotionally Evocative Stimuli: Associations With Internalizing Symptoms

IF 1.2 4区心理学 Q4 PSYCHOLOGY, DEVELOPMENTAL

Merrill-Palmer Quarterly-Journal of Developmental Psychology Pub Date : 2022-10-01 DOI:10.1353/mpq.2022.a905092

Lindsay N. Gabel, Andrew R. Daoust, T. Olino, Jessica A. Grahn, C. Durbin, E. Hayden

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Abstract

Abstract:Individual differences in emotional reactivity emerge early in development and predict important child outcomes. Unfortunately, methods used to assess these often fail to tap dynamic changes in emotion, obscuring nuanced relationships between maladaptive emotional reactivity and early internalizing psychopathology. We therefore explored the utility of an emerging, multimethod approach for examining children’s emotional reactivity. Thirty-nine children (22 girls; Mage = 7.19 years, SD = .76) viewed 11 video clips eliciting happiness, sadness, or fear. We used multilevel growth curve modeling to estimate change in children’s self-reported and observed emotion across clips of increasing potency. Higher anxious/depressive symptoms predicted steeper trajectories of child-rated happiness and lower happiness and fear toward low-intensity clips. Higher depressive symptoms predicted lower child-rated sadness toward a low-intensity clip. The limited associations between children’s symptoms and emotion ratings averaged across clips suggested that modeling child emotion across stimuli of varying intensity yields a valuable index of emotional reactivity.

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儿童对唤起性情绪刺激的情绪反应:与内化症状的关联

摘要：情绪反应的个体差异在发育早期就出现了，并预测了重要的儿童结果。不幸的是，用于评估这些情况的方法往往无法挖掘情绪的动态变化，从而掩盖了适应不良的情绪反应与早期内化精神病理学之间的微妙关系。因此，我们探索了一种新兴的、多方法的方法来检查儿童情绪反应的效用。39名儿童（22名女孩；Mage=7.19岁，SD=.76）观看了11段引发快乐、悲伤或恐惧的视频片段。我们使用多水平生长曲线模型来估计儿童自我报告和观察到的情绪在效力增强的片段中的变化。更高的焦虑/抑郁症状预示着儿童评分的幸福感轨迹更陡，幸福感和恐惧感向低强度片段的轨迹更低。抑郁症状越高，孩子对低强度片段的悲伤程度越低。儿童的症状和剪辑平均情绪评分之间的有限关联表明，在不同强度的刺激下模拟儿童情绪可以产生一个有价值的情绪反应指数。

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