Adolescents' emotion regulatory capacities modulate the relationship between child maltreatment experiences and psychopathology. Affective inhibitory control constitutes an important part of emotion regulation and involves the ability to regulate automatic or prepotent responses to irrelevant and potentially distracting emotional information. The aim of the present study was to investigate the role of affective inhibitory control in the relationship between exposure to child maltreatment and internalizing problems in adolescence. A nationally representative sample of adolescents (n = 9,240; 49% girls; Mage = 14 years; SD = 0.9), of which n = 4,261 (55% girls; Mage = 14 years; SD = 0.9) were exposed to child maltreatment, conducted an emotional go/no-go task. Participants were presented with angry facial expressions as emotional no-go stimuli in order to examine their ability to inhibit behavioral responses to threatening task-irrelevant stimuli. Affective inhibitory control problems were uniquely related to internalizing problems in maltreated adolescents. Gender effects were observed; the relationship was significant in girls but not in boys. Moreover, affective inhibitory control moderated the relationship between exposure to psychological abuse and internalizing problems in girls. We did not observe any relationship between inhibitory control and internalizing problems when neutral faces were presented as task-irrelevant information. Findings suggest that a reduced ability to inhibit threatening, but task-irrelevant, information is related to internalizing problems in maltreated adolescent girls. Results highlight the importance of affective inhibitory control as a potential moderating mechanism in individual risk for experiencing internalizing problems in abused adolescents. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2021 APA, all rights reserved).

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接受儿童虐待的青少年的情感抑制控制和内在问题的风险：一项基于人群的研究。

青少年的情绪调节能力调节儿童虐待经历和心理病理之间的关系。情感抑制控制是情绪调节的重要组成部分，涉及调节对无关的和可能分散注意力的情绪信息的自动或有力反应的能力。本研究的目的是研究情感抑制控制在暴露于儿童虐待和青少年内在化问题之间的关系。全国代表性的青少年样本（n = 9,240； 49％的女孩；法师= 14岁； SD = 0.9），其中n = 4,261（55％的女孩；法师= 14岁； SD = 0.9）受到了虐待，进行了情绪高/低的任务。向参与者展示了愤怒的面部表情，作为情绪上的不刺激刺激，以检查他们抑制对威胁性任务无关刺激的行为反应的能力。情感抑制控制问题与虐待青少年的内在化问题是唯一相关的。观察到性别影响；这种关系在女孩中很重要，而在男孩中则没有。此外，情感抑制控制调节了女孩遭受心理虐待和内在化问题之间的关系。当中性面孔作为与任务无关的信息出现时，我们没有观察到抑制控制与内部化问题之间的任何关系。研究结果表明，抑制威胁性但与任务无关的信息的能力降低与受虐待的青春期女孩的内在化问题有关。结果强调了情感抑制控制作为潜在的调节机制对于遭受虐待的青少年内在化问题的个体风险的重要性。（PsycInfo数据库记录（c）2021 APA，保留所有权利）。