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Abstract：
Maternal insensitivity to children\'s emotional distress (e.g., expressions of sadness or fearfulness) is one mechanism through which maternal alcohol dependence may increase children\'s risk for psychopathology. Although emotion dysregulation is consistently associated with psychopathology, it remains unclear how or why alcohol dependence\'s effects on caregiving responses to children\'s distress may impact children\'s emotion regulation over time, particularly in ways that may engender risks for psychopathology. This study examined longitudinal associations between lifetime maternal alcohol dependence symptoms, mothers\' insensitivity to children\'s emotional distress cues, and children\'s emotional reactivity among 201 mother-child dyads (Mchild age = 2.14 years; 56% Black; 11% Latino). Structural equation modeling analyses revealed a significant mediational pathway such that maternal alcohol dependence predicted increases in mothers\' insensitivity to children\'s emotional distress across a one-year period (β = .16, p = .013), which subsequently predicted decreases in children\'s emotional reactivity one year later (β = -.29, p = .009). Results suggest that mothers with alcohol dependence symptoms may struggle to sensitively respond to children\'s emotional distress, which may prompt children to suppress or hide their emotions as an adaptive, protective strategy. The potential developmental benefits and consequences of early, protective expressive suppression strategies are discussed via developmental psychopathology frameworks.
摘要：
产妇对儿童的情绪困扰不敏感(例如，悲伤或恐惧的表达）是一种机制，通过这种机制，母亲的酒精依赖可能会增加儿童的精神病理学风险。尽管情绪失调一直与精神病理学有关，目前尚不清楚酒精依赖对照顾儿童痛苦的反应的影响如何或为什么会随着时间的推移影响儿童的情绪调节，特别是在可能引发精神病理学风险的方面。这项研究检查了终生母亲酒精依赖症状之间的纵向关联，母亲对儿童的情绪困扰线索不敏感，和儿童的情绪反应中的201母子二叉（Mchild年龄=2.14岁；56%的黑人；11%的拉丁裔）。结构方程模型分析揭示了一个显著的中介途径，使得母亲的酒精依赖预测母亲对儿童情绪困扰的不敏感性在一年期间增加（β=.16，p=.013），随后预测一年后儿童的情绪反应性下降(β=-.29，p=.009)。结果表明，有酒精依赖症状的母亲可能难以对儿童的情绪困扰做出敏感反应，这可能会促使孩子们压抑或隐藏自己的情绪，保护策略。早期的潜在发展益处和后果，通过发育性精神病理学框架讨论了保护性表达抑制策略。
