Toth S L, Cicchetti D, Macfie J, Rogosch F A, Maughan A
Mt. Hope Family Center, University of Rochester, NY 14608, USA.
J Clin Child Psychol. 2000 Sep;29(3):307-18. doi: 10.1207/S15374424JCCP2903_2.
Examined whether maltreated preschoolers are more likely than nonmaltreated preschoolers to have fewer moral-affiliative and more conflictual narrative representations and whether these representations mediate child behavior problems. A structured narrative story-telling task was administered to assess representations, and independent ratings of behavior problems were obtained from teachers. The narratives of maltreated children contained more conflictual and fewer moral-affiliative themes. Maltreated children also exhibited more internalizing and externalizing behavior problems. A partial mediation effect of conflictual representations on the relation between child maltreatment and externalizing behavior problems was found. The results demonstrate the relation between child maltreatment and children's organization of their life experiences and their behavioral symptomatology.
研究受虐待的学龄前儿童是否比未受虐待的学龄前儿童更有可能拥有较少的道德亲和性和较多的冲突性叙事表征，以及这些表征是否介导儿童行为问题。采用结构化叙事讲故事任务来评估表征，并从教师那里获得行为问题的独立评分。受虐待儿童的叙事包含更多冲突性主题和更少的道德亲和性主题。受虐待儿童还表现出更多的内化和外化行为问题。研究发现冲突性表征对儿童虐待与外化行为问题之间的关系有部分中介作用。结果表明了儿童虐待与儿童对其生活经历的组织及其行为症状之间的关系。
