Teti D M, Gelfand D M
Department of Psychology, University of Maryland Baltimore County 21228.
Child Dev. 1991 Oct;62(5):918-29. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-8624.1991.tb01580.x.
This study tests the idea that mothers' self-efficacy beliefs mediate the effects on parenting behavior of variables such as depression, perceptions of infant temperamental difficulty, and social-marital supports. Subjects were 48 clinically depressed and 38 nondepressed mothers observed in interaction with their 3-13-month-old infants (M = 7.35 months). As predicted, maternal self-efficacy beliefs related significantly to maternal behavioral competence independent of the effects of other variables. When the effects of self-efficacy were controlled, parenting competence no longer related significantly to social-marital supports or maternal depression. In addition, maternal self-efficacy correlated significantly with perceptions of infant difficulty after controlling for family demographic variables. These results suggest that maternal self-efficacy mediates relations between maternal competence and other psychosocial variables and may play a crucial role in determining parenting behavior and infant psychosocial risk.
本研究检验了这样一种观点，即母亲的自我效能感信念会介导诸如抑郁、对婴儿气质性困难的认知以及社会婚姻支持等变量对养育行为的影响。研究对象为48名临床抑郁症母亲和38名非抑郁症母亲，观察她们与3至13个月大的婴儿（平均年龄7.35个月）的互动情况。正如所预测的那样，母亲的自我效能感信念与母亲的行为能力显著相关，且不受其他变量影响。当自我效能感的影响得到控制时，养育能力与社会婚姻支持或母亲抑郁不再显著相关。此外，在控制家庭人口统计学变量后，母亲的自我效能感与对婴儿困难的认知显著相关。这些结果表明，母亲的自我效能感介导了母亲能力与其他心理社会变量之间的关系，并且可能在决定养育行为和婴儿心理社会风险方面发挥关键作用。
