背景:了解儿童虐待如何从一代传给下一代,对于制定可能打破儿童虐待循环的干预和预防策略至关重要。反复发现由于童年虐待导致的情绪识别变化,并可能是虐待儿童的代际传播。
目的:在本研究中,因此,研究了识别情绪的能力是否在虐待和忽视儿童的代际传播中起作用。
方法:共有250名父母(104名男性,146名女性)参加了三代家庭研究。
方法:参与者完成了情感识别任务,在该任务中,他们被展示了一系列照片,这些照片描绘了面部表情从中立到情绪愤怒的顶峰。恐惧,幸福,和悲伤。使用多种信息手段来检查经验丰富和犯下的虐待儿童行为。
结果:滥用史,但不要忽视,预测识别恐惧和愤怒的反应时间更短。此外,表现出更高水平的忽视行为的父母在识别恐惧时犯了更多的错误,而表现出更高水平的虐待行为的父母在识别愤怒时犯了更多的错误。情感识别并不能调解有经验的虐待儿童和实施虐待儿童之间的联系。
结论:研究结果强调了在调查虐待儿童的前兆和后遗症时区分虐待和忽视的重要性。此外,旨在打破虐待和忽视循环的干预措施的有效性可以通过更好地解决虐待和忽视父母情绪处理的具体问题来提高。
Understanding how child maltreatment is passed down from one generation to the next is crucial for the development of intervention and prevention strategies that may break the cycle of child maltreatment. Changes in emotion recognition due to childhood maltreatment have repeatedly been found, and may underly the intergenerational transmission of child maltreatment.
In this study we, therefore, examined whether the ability to recognize emotions plays a role in the intergenerational transmission of child abuse and neglect.
A total of 250 parents (104 males, 146 females) were included that participated in a three-generation family study.
Participants completed an emotion recognition task in which they were presented with series of photographs that depicted the unfolding of facial expressions from neutrality to the peak emotions anger, fear, happiness, and sadness. Multi-informant measures were used to examine experienced and perpetrated child maltreatment.
A history of abuse, but not neglect, predicted a shorter reaction time to identify fear and anger. In addition, parents who showed higher levels of neglectful behavior made more errors in identifying fear, whereas parents who showed higher levels of abusive behavior made more errors in identifying anger. Emotion recognition did not mediate the association between experienced and perpetrated child maltreatment.
Findings highlight the importance of distinguishing between abuse and neglect when investigating the precursors and sequalae of child maltreatment. In addition, the effectiveness of interventions that aim to break the cycle of abuse and neglect could be improved by better addressing the specific problems with emotion processing of abusive and neglectful parents.