Clarke-Stewart K A, Vandell D L, McCartney K, Owen M T, Booth C
Department of Psychology and Social Behavior, University of California, Irvine 92697, USA.
J Fam Psychol. 2000 Jun;14(2):304-26. doi: 10.1037//0893-3200.14.2.304.
Data from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Study of Early Child Care were analyzed to explore effects of marital separation on children in the first 3 years of life. The sample included 73 never-married mothers and 97 separated mothers; a comparison group of 170 was conditionally randomly selected from the 2-parent families. Children in 2-parent families performed better than children in 1-parent families on assessments of cognitive and social abilities, problem behavior, attachment security, and behavior with mother. However, controlling for mothers' education and family income reduced these differences, and associations with separated-intact marital status were nonsignificant (the effect size was .01). Thus, children's psychological development was not affected by parental separation per se; it was related to mothers' income, education, ethnicity, child-rearing beliefs, depressive symptoms, and behavior.
对美国国立儿童健康与人类发展研究所早期儿童保育研究的数据进行了分析，以探讨婚姻分居对儿童生命最初3年的影响。样本包括73名未婚母亲和97名分居母亲；从双亲家庭中条件性随机选取了170名作为对照组。在认知和社交能力、问题行为、依恋安全性以及与母亲的互动行为评估中，双亲家庭的孩子比单亲家庭的孩子表现更好。然而，控制母亲的教育程度和家庭收入后，这些差异有所减小，且与分居-完整婚姻状况的关联并不显著（效应量为0.01）。因此，父母分居本身并不会影响孩子的心理发展；它与母亲的收入、教育程度、种族、育儿观念、抑郁症状及行为有关。
