The purpose of this study was to investigate contributions of maternal emotional resources to individual differences in adolescents’ functional connectivity during emotion regulation. Participants included 35 adolescent girls who completed an implicit emotion regulation task during fMRI. Mothers reported on the quality of their adult attachment and emotional awareness when youth were in elementary school. Higher anxious attachment and lower emotional awareness were significantly correlated with more positive amygdala–right ventrolateral prefrontal cortex connectivity, a pattern linked in prior research with ineffective emotion regulation and emotional difficulties. Further, there was an indirect effect of anxious attachment on adolescent connectivity through emotional awareness. These results suggest that compromised maternal emotional resources in childhood may be linked to atypical neural processing of emotions.

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少女对情绪的神经调节的孕产先决条件。

这项研究的目的是调查母亲情绪资源对情绪调节过程中青少年功能连接个体差异的影响。参与者包括35名在fMRI期间完成隐式情绪调节任务的少女。母亲报告了青年时期在小学时成人依恋和情感意识的质量。较高的焦虑依恋和较低的情绪意识与杏仁核-右腹外侧前额叶皮层连接性更强相关，这在先前的研究中与无效的情绪调节和情绪障碍有关。此外，通过情感意识，焦虑依恋对青少年的连通性有间接影响。