照顾者对寄养儿童的投入：儿童行为的作用。
Caregiver commitment to foster children: the role of child behavior.
作者信息
Lindhiem Oliver, Dozier Mary
机构信息
University of Delaware, Newark, DE 19716, USA.
出版信息
Child Abuse Negl. 2007 Apr;31(4):361-74. doi: 10.1016/j.chiabu.2006.12.003. Epub 2007 Apr 11.
OBJECTIVE
This study aimed to examine the association between child behavior problems and caregiver commitment to their child in a group of young foster children.
METHOD
The sample consisted of 102 caregiver-child dyads from the greater Baltimore area. Child behavior was assessed using the Child Behavior Checklist [CBCL; Achenbach, T. M. (1991). Manual for the Child Behavior Checklist/4-8 and 1991 profile. Burlington, VT: University of Vermont, Department of Psychiatry; Achenbach, T. M. (1992). Manual for the Child Behavior Checklist/2-3 and 1992 profile. Burlington, VT: University of Vermont, Department of Psychiatry], and caregiver commitment was assessed using a semi-structured interview known as the "This is My Baby" Interview [Bates, B., & Dozier, M. (1998). "This Is My Baby"coding manual. Unpublished manuscript, University of Delaware, Newark]. For a sub-sample of the dyads (N=76), we examined caregiver commitment and parent-reported child behavior at two time points in order to examine the stability of a caregiver's commitment over time and to examine the direction of the association between the two variables.
RESULTS
Overall, caregiver reported child behavior was significantly associated with caregiver commitment. Both caregiver reported child behavior and caregiver commitment were highly stable over an 11-month period. When we examined the data over time, the effect of caregiver reported child behavior at time 1 on caregiver commitment at time 2 was not significantly larger than the effect of caregiver commitment at time 1 on caregiver reported child behavior at time 2. As a result, we were not able to determine the direction of the association between caregiver reported child behavior and caregiver commitment.
CONCLUSIONS
Our results indicate that caregiver reported child behavior is significantly associated with caregiver commitment to their foster children, even after controlling for factors including age of entry into foster care and time in placement.
目的
本研究旨在探讨一组年幼寄养儿童的行为问题与照料者对其子女的投入之间的关联。
方法
样本包括来自巴尔的摩大区的102对照料者与儿童。使用儿童行为量表[CBCL；阿肯巴克，T.M.（1991年）。《儿童行为量表/4 - 8岁及1991年剖面图手册》。佛蒙特州伯灵顿：佛蒙特大学精神病学系；阿肯巴克，T.M.（1992年）。《儿童行为量表/2 - 3岁及1992年剖面图手册》。佛蒙特州伯灵顿：佛蒙特大学精神病学系]评估儿童行为，使用一种名为“这是我的孩子”访谈的半结构化访谈[贝茨，B.，& 多齐尔，M.（1998年）。“这是我的孩子”编码手册。未发表的手稿，特拉华大学，纽瓦克]评估照料者的投入。对于二元组的一个子样本（N = 76），我们在两个时间点检查了照料者的投入和家长报告的儿童行为，以检验照料者投入随时间的稳定性，并检验这两个变量之间关联的方向。
结果
总体而言，照料者报告的儿童行为与照料者的投入显著相关。在11个月的时间里，照料者报告的儿童行为和照料者的投入都高度稳定。当我们随时间检查数据时，第1时间点照料者报告的儿童行为对第2时间点照料者投入的影响并不显著大于第1时间点照料者投入对第2时间点照料者报告的儿童行为的影响。因此，我们无法确定照料者报告的儿童行为与照料者投入之间关联的方向。
结论
我们的结果表明，即使在控制了进入寄养照料的年龄和安置时间等因素之后，照料者报告的儿童行为与照料者对其寄养子女的投入仍显著相关。
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