McCarthy G, Taylor A
Medical Research Council's Child Psychiatry Unit, Institute of Psychiatry, London, UK.
J Child Psychol Psychiatry. 1999 Mar;40(3):465-77.
The role of attachment style, self-esteem, and relationship attributions as possible mediators between abusive childhood experiences and difficulties in establishing supportive love relationships in adulthood were investigated in a sample of women known to be at risk of experiencing relationship problems. Measures of child abuse, the quality of love relationships, and the three potential mediators were made concurrently in adulthood. Participants who had experienced child abuse were found to be six times more likely to be experiencing difficulties in the domain of adult love relationships than those who had not. Self-esteem and relationship attributions were not found to be related to child abuse. When both child abuse and avoidant/ambivalent attachment style were considered together avoidant/ambivalent attachment style, but not child abuse, was found to be related to relationship difficulties. These findings indicate that avoidant/ambivalent attachment style, but not self-esteem and relationship attributions, is a mediating factor in the route from child abuse to adult relationship abilities.
在一个已知有恋爱问题风险的女性样本中，研究了依恋风格、自尊和关系归因作为童年虐待经历与成年后建立支持性恋爱关系困难之间可能的中介作用。在成年期同时进行了儿童虐待、恋爱关系质量以及这三个潜在中介因素的测量。结果发现，经历过儿童虐待的参与者在成年恋爱关系领域出现困难的可能性是未经历过的人的六倍。自尊和关系归因与儿童虐待无关。当同时考虑儿童虐待和回避型/矛盾型依恋风格时，发现回避型/矛盾型依恋风格而非儿童虐待与恋爱困难有关。这些发现表明，回避型/矛盾型依恋风格而非自尊和关系归因是从儿童虐待到成年恋爱能力这一路径中的一个中介因素。
