Wolchik S A, Wilcox K L, Tein J Y, Sandler I N
Department of Psychology, Arizona State University, Tempe 85287-1108, USA.
J Abnorm Child Psychol. 2000 Feb;28(1):87-102. doi: 10.1023/a:1005178203702.
This study examines whether two aspects of mothering--acceptance and consistency of discipline--buffer the effect of divorce stressors on adjustment problems in 678 children, ages 8 to 15, whose families had divorced within the past 2 years. Children reported on divorce stressors; both mothers and children reported on mothering and internalizing and externalizing problems. Multiple regressions indicate that for maternal report of mothering, acceptance interacted with divorce stressors in predicting both dimensions of adjustment problems, with the pattern of findings supporting a stress-buffering effect. For child report of mothering, acceptance, consistency of discipline, and divorce stressors interacted in predicting adjustment problems. The relation between divorce stressors and internalizing and externalizing problems is stronger for children who report low acceptance and low consistency of discipline than for children who report either low acceptance and high consistency of discipline or high acceptance and low consistency of discipline. Children reporting high acceptance and high consistency of discipline have the lowest levels of adjustment problems. Implications of these results for understanding variability in children's postdivorce adjustment and interventions for divorced families are discussed.
本研究调查了养育子女的两个方面——接纳程度和管教的一致性——是否能缓冲离婚压力源对678名8至15岁儿童适应问题的影响，这些儿童的家庭在过去两年内离异。孩子们报告了离婚压力源；母亲和孩子都报告了养育方式以及内化和外化问题。多元回归分析表明，对于母亲报告的养育方式，接纳程度与离婚压力源在预测适应问题的两个维度时存在交互作用，研究结果模式支持压力缓冲效应。对于孩子报告的养育方式，接纳程度、管教的一致性和离婚压力源在预测适应问题时存在交互作用。与报告低接纳程度和高管教一致性或高接纳程度和低管教一致性的孩子相比，报告低接纳程度和低管教一致性的孩子，离婚压力源与内化和外化问题之间的关系更强。报告高接纳程度和高管教一致性的孩子适应问题水平最低。本文讨论了这些结果对于理解儿童离婚后适应差异以及对离异家庭干预措施的意义。
