Dunn Judy, O'Connor Thomas G, Cheng Helen
Social Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London, UK.
J Clin Child Adolesc Psychol. 2005 Jun;34(2):223-34. doi: 10.1207/s15374424jccp3402_2.
Children who have experienced parental separation have potentially 3 sets of parents whose relationships may impact on them: mother and former partner, mother and stepfather, and father and new partner. Children's accounts of their response to conflict between these different parental dyads were studied, in relation to the quality of their relationships with these parents assessed with child interviews and questionnaires, and to maternal reports of the children's adjustment, in a sample of 159 children growing up in different family settings. Involvement in conflict within 1 parental dyad was chiefly unrelated to such involvement in conflict between the other parental dyads. In contrast, there was evidence for "spillover" effects in relationships within families; for instance, high frequencies of conflict between parents were linked to more troubled parent-child relationships. Children were more likely to side with the parent to whom they were biologically related than with stepparents. Involvement in mother-nonresident father conflict and in mother-stepfather conflict were both associated with adjustment problems, independent of the qualities of positivity and conflict in the relationship between child and parent. Implications for views on "family boundaries" are considered.
经历过父母离异的孩子可能有三组父母，他们之间的关系可能会对孩子产生影响：母亲和前夫、母亲和继父、父亲和新伴侣。在一个由159名成长于不同家庭环境的孩子组成的样本中，研究了孩子们对这些不同父母二元组之间冲突的反应，同时通过儿童访谈和问卷调查评估了他们与这些父母关系的质量，以及母亲对孩子适应情况的报告。一个父母二元组内的冲突卷入情况与其他父母二元组之间的冲突卷入情况主要无关。相比之下，有证据表明家庭内部关系存在“溢出”效应；例如，父母之间频繁的冲突与更麻烦的亲子关系有关。孩子更有可能站在与自己有血缘关系的父母一边，而不是继父继母一边。卷入母亲与非共同居住父亲的冲突以及母亲与继父的冲突都与适应问题有关，这与孩子和父母之间关系的积极程度和冲突情况无关。文中还考虑了对“家庭界限”观点的影响。
