The role of maternal trauma and discipline types in emotional processing among Syrian refugee children.
Discipline
Emotion
Face recognition
PTS
Parenting
War
Journal
European child & adolescent psychiatry
ISSN: 1435-165X
Titre abrégé: Eur Child Adolesc Psychiatry
Pays: Germany
ID NLM: 9212296
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
Aug 2023
Aug 2023
Historique:
received:
28
10
2021
accepted:
10
02
2022
medline:
10
7
2023
pubmed:
27
2
2022
entrez:
26
2
2022
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
Stressful experiences in armed conflict incur intergenerational effects through parental behaviors with their children. A recent study reported that among Syrian refugee families, mothers' (but not fathers') post-traumatic stress (PTS) impacted children's emotional processing. In this study, we aim to shed further light on this phenomenon by analyzing how the parenting practices in the context of post-traumatic stress confers protection or risk for children's emotional processing. Participants were 6-18-year-old children (n = 212) and their mothers (n = 94), who fled from Syria and were residing in Turkish communities. We used the computer-based emotional processing task including photos of facial movements typically associated with different emotions to measure children's capacity for emotional processing. Mothers reported their PTS and the discipline types they use, as well as the contextual factors related to their refugee background. Linear mixed effect models were constructed first, to find out the discipline types that are most strongly associated with emotional processing of the child, and second, to examine whether these discipline types moderate the effect of maternal PTS on children's emotional processing. Finally, generalized linear models were constructed to examine which contextual factors are associated with the use of these discipline types by mothers. We found that spanking as a discipline type was associated with poorer child emotional processing, whereas withholding of media access was associated with better emotional processing. Younger and less religious mothers were more prone to use spanking. The study underlines the need for parenting programs alongside with efforts to address mental health issues among mothers living under armed conflict.
Identifiants
pubmed: 35217919
doi: 10.1007/s00787-022-01962-3
pii: 10.1007/s00787-022-01962-3
pmc: PMC10326120
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
1487-1495Subventions
Organisme : Knut och Alice Wallenbergs Stiftelse
ID : 2012.0120
Informations de copyright
© 2022. The Author(s).
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