Marshall D B, English D J, Stewart A J
Children's Administration Data Integration and Analysis Unit, State of Washington Office of Children's Administration Research, USA.
Child Maltreat. 2001 Nov;6(4):290-9. doi: 10.1177/1077559501006004002.
This study examines some possible effects of the presence and quality of parent-child interaction of fathers and father figures on the behavior of young children in a sample of families reported to child protective services. Whereas the presence or absence of a father or father figure seemed to make little difference in child behavioral problems at age 4, lower levels of aggression and depression were observed for children by age 6 if an adult male in some form of father-like relationship was present in the child's life. When controlling for mother's ethnicity, child's gender, the number of referrals to child protective services, and the presence of domestic violence, the direct effect of a father/father figure was no longer significant but remained in the multivariate models as a significant interaction term.
本研究在向儿童保护服务机构报告的家庭样本中，考察了父亲及类似父亲角色的亲子互动的存在与否及其质量对幼儿行为的一些可能影响。虽然父亲或类似父亲角色的存在与否在4岁儿童的行为问题上似乎没有太大差异，但如果儿童生活中有某种形式的类似父亲关系的成年男性，到6岁时儿童的攻击性和抑郁水平会较低。在控制了母亲的种族、孩子的性别、向儿童保护服务机构的转介次数以及家庭暴力的存在等因素后，父亲/类似父亲角色的直接影响不再显著，但在多变量模型中仍作为一个显著的交互项存在。
