Walker L S, Zeman J L
Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee.
J Pediatr Psychol. 1992 Feb;17(1):49-71. doi: 10.1093/jpepsy/17.1.49.
Examined the effects of child age and gender, parent gender, and type of child illness on parents' responses to their children's illness behavior. Study 1 describes the development of the Illness Behavior Encouragement Scale, based on Whitehead et al.'s Social Learning Scales for adults, and provides evidence supporting symptom specificity in children's learning of illness behavior. Results of Study 2 indicate that mothers encourage children's illness behavior more than fathers, that parents encourage children to adopt the sick role for gastrointestinal symptoms more than for cold symptoms, and that girls perceive parents as encouraging their illness behavior more than boys, that is, girls report receiving more sympathy and being allowed more relief from responsibility during illness episodes than boys.
研究了儿童年龄和性别、父母性别以及儿童疾病类型对父母对孩子疾病行为反应的影响。研究1描述了基于怀特黑德等人的成人社会学习量表编制的疾病行为鼓励量表的发展情况，并提供了支持儿童疾病行为学习中症状特异性的证据。研究2的结果表明，母亲比父亲更鼓励孩子的疾病行为，父母鼓励孩子因胃肠道症状而扮演患病角色的程度高于感冒症状，女孩比男孩更认为父母鼓励她们的疾病行为，也就是说，女孩报告在患病期间比男孩得到更多同情，并且被允许更多地免除责任。
