Adolescents with internalizing problems are more prone to feelings of guilt and shame, experience more guilt-induction, and report more negative parenting, but little is known about the way these processes are associated nor the extent to which they occur within real-time parent-adolescent interactions. The current study sought to clarify these links by investigating whether negatively biased perceptions of maternal communication mediate links between adolescent internalizing symptoms and their feelings of guilt, shame, and guilt-induction during real-time mother-adolescent discussions. One hundred twenty-three mother-adolescent dyads participated in the study. These dyads were moderately diverse in both race/ethnicity (53% White, 29% Black, 12% Hispanic) and family income (26% earned less than $30,000/year, 22% earned more than $100,000/year) and included adolescents who ranged in age from 12 to 17 (Mage = 13.99) and were approximately half female (54%). Mothers and adolescents engaged in lab discussions about issues of conflict and guilt and rated mothers’ positive and negative communication during the tasks; observers rated these same behaviors. Adolescents also reported on their general internalizing symptoms prior to the discussions and feelings of guilt, shame, and experienced guilt induction following each discussion task. Structural equation models, parceling out shared and unique perceptions of maternal communication behaviors, showed that adolescents with more internalizing symptoms reported greater feelings of shame and perceived maternal guilt-induction following the discussion, and that these associations were mediated by adolescents’ unique perceptions of more maternal negativity. These findings highlight the potential role of cognitive biases in perpetuating established associations among adolescent internalizing symptoms, shame, and parental guilt-induction.

有内化问题的青少年更容易产生内疚和羞耻感，经历更多的内疚感，并报告更多的消极养育方式，但人们对这些过程的关联方式以及它们在实时父母中发生的程度知之甚少。青少年互动。目前的研究试图通过调查对母性沟通的负面偏见感知是否在青少年内化症状与他们在母婴实时讨论中的内疚感、羞耻感和内疚感之间产生联系，从而澄清这些联系。123 名母亲-青少年二人参加了这项研究。这些二人组在种族/族裔（53% 白人，29% 黑人，12% 西班牙裔）和家庭收入（26% 的年收入低于 30,000 美元，22% 的收入超过 100 美元，米年龄 = 13.99)，大约一半是女性 (54%)。母亲和青少年就冲突和内疚问题进行实验室讨论，并评估母亲在任务期间的积极和消极沟通；观察者对这些相同的行为进行了评级。青少年还报告了他们在讨论前的一般内化症状和内疚感、羞耻感，以及在每次讨论任务后经历的内疚感。结构方程模型展示了对母亲交流行为的共同和独特的看法，表明具有更多内化症状的青少年在讨论后报告了更大的羞耻感和感知到的母亲内疚感，并且这些关联是由青少年对更多信息的独特看法所介导的。母性消极。