Aronowitz Teri, Morrison-Beedy Dianne
School of Nursing, Syracuse University, School of Nursing, Syracuse, NY, USA.
Res Nurs Health. 2004 Feb;27(1):29-39. doi: 10.1002/nur.20004.
Rates of risk behaviors (e.g., violence, substance use) for impoverished girls are exceedingly high. Some view their future pessimistically, decreasing their resilience to avoid risky behaviors. Others resist such behaviors. Connectedness with an adult promotes this resilience, but how is unclear. The purpose of this secondary analysis was to investigate the relationships among connectedness to mother, time perspective, and resilience to risk-taking behaviors in impoverished African American girls ages 11-15. Structural equation modeling was used to cross-validate this model. In contrast to the results found in earlier studies, no direct relationship emerged between maternal connectedness and resilience. Instead, future time perspective was the key mediator between connectedness and resilience. These findings suggest that an important aspect of interventions to foster resilience to risk behaviors in young girls could be to assist their mothers in developing a connected relationship with their daughters that would promote a future time perspective.
贫困女孩的风险行为（如暴力、物质使用）发生率极高。一些人对她们的未来持悲观态度，这降低了她们避免危险行为的复原力。另一些人则抵制此类行为。与成年人的联系能增强这种复原力，但具体方式尚不清楚。本次二次分析的目的是调查11至15岁贫困非裔美国女孩与母亲的联系、时间观念以及对冒险行为的复原力之间的关系。采用结构方程模型对该模型进行交叉验证。与早期研究结果不同的是，母亲与孩子的联系和复原力之间没有直接关系。相反，未来时间观念是联系和复原力之间的关键中介因素。这些发现表明，在干预措施中，促进年轻女孩对风险行为的复原力的一个重要方面可能是帮助她们的母亲与女儿建立一种能促进未来时间观念的联系。
