Trentacosta Christopher J, Shaw Daniel S
Pitt Mother-Child Project, University of Pittsburgh, 210 S Bouquet Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15260, USA.
J Abnorm Child Psychol. 2008 Feb;36(2):247-59. doi: 10.1007/s10802-007-9174-8. Epub 2007 Sep 6.
The present study examined relations among maternal psychological resources, rejecting parenting, and early adolescent antisocial behavior in a sample of 231 low-income mothers and their sons with longitudinal assessments from age 18 months to 12 years. The maternal resources examined were age at first birth, aggressive personality, and empathy. Each of the maternal resources predicted rejecting parenting during early childhood in structural equation models that controlled for toddler difficult temperament, and rejecting parenting in early childhood predicted antisocial behavior in early adolescence. Rejecting parenting accounted for the indirect effect of each of the maternal resources on antisocial behavior, but a direct effect was also supported between maternal aggressive personality and youth antisocial behavior. Results highlight the importance of these relatively understudied maternal resources and have implications for prevention and intervention programs that focus on parenting during early childhood.
本研究在一个由231名低收入母亲及其儿子组成的样本中,考察了母亲心理资源、拒绝型教养方式与青少年早期反社会行为之间的关系,研究进行了从18个月到12岁的纵向评估。所考察的母亲资源包括初育年龄、攻击性人格和同理心。在控制了幼儿困难气质的结构方程模型中,每种母亲资源都预测了幼儿期的拒绝型教养方式,而幼儿期的拒绝型教养方式则预测了青少年早期的反社会行为。拒绝型教养方式解释了每种母亲资源对反社会行为的间接影响,但母亲的攻击性人格与青少年反社会行为之间也存在直接影响。研究结果凸显了这些相对较少被研究的母亲资源的重要性,并对关注幼儿期教养方式的预防和干预项目具有启示意义。