This study tested children's emotion recognition as a mediator of associations between their exposure to hostile and cooperative interparental conflict and their internalizing and externalizing symptoms. From 2018 to 2022, 238 mothers, their partners, and preschool children (M_age = 4.38, 52% female; 68% White; 18% Black; 14% Multiracial or another race; and 16% Latinx) participated in three annual measurement occasions. Path analyses indicated that Wave 1 observations of hostile interparental conflict predicted residualized increases in children's emotion recognition accuracy (i.e., angry, sad, and happy) at Wave 2 (β = .27). Wave 2 emotion recognition, in turn, predicted residualized decreases in children's internalizing symptoms at Wave 3 (β = −.22). Mediational findings were partly attributable to children's accuracy in identifying angry and high-intensity expressions.

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亲子冲突维度与儿童心理问题：情绪识别的中介作用

这项研究测试了儿童的情绪识别，作为他们暴露于敌对和合作的父母间冲突与他们的内化和外化症状之间关联的中介。从 2018 年到 2022 年，238 名母亲、她们的伴侣和学龄前儿童（M_年龄 = 4.38，52% 女性；68% 白人；18% 黑人；14% 多种族或其他种族；16% 拉丁裔）参加了三个年度测量活动。路径分析表明，第 1 波对父母间敌对冲突的观察预测了第 2 波儿童情绪识别准确性（即愤怒、悲伤和快乐）的残余增加 ( β  = .27)。反过来，第 2 波情绪识别又预测了第 3 波儿童内化症状的残余减少（β  = -.22）。中介发现部分归因于儿童识别愤怒和高强度表情的准确性。