The study examined measurement models of parent-adolescent dyadic affective flexibility and identified ways that this relational flexibility meaningfully changed in the context of adolescent anxious and depressive symptoms, both concurrently and over time. Ninety-one mother-adolescent dyads completed two five-minute tasks. Observational data were coded in real-time and examined second-by-second. Flexibility metrics were calculated (i.e., range, transitions, average mean duration, dispersion). Results supported a two-factor model of flexibility and suggested that all four metrics contribute to the construct. Adolescent internalizing symptoms positively related to flexibility, both concurrently and across a 6-month time period. Thus, dyadic affective flexibility appears best measured by utilizing all four metrics, and individual characteristics (i.e., anxious/depressive symptoms) influence dynamic family processes.

该研究检查了父母-青少年二元情感柔韧性的测量模型，并确定了这种关系柔韧性在青少年焦虑和抑郁症状的背景下同时并随时间而有意义地改变的方式。九十一个母亲-青少年二元组完成了两个五分钟的任务。观测数据进行了实时编码，并进行了每秒检查。计算了灵活性指标（即范围，过渡，平均平均持续时间，分散度）。结果支持了一个由两因素组成的灵活性模型，并表明所有四个指标都对这种结构有所贡献。青少年的内在症状与同时发生的以及在6个月的时间段内的柔韧性均呈正相关。因此，通过利用所有四个指标和个体特征（即