Suchman Nancy, McMahon Thomas, Decoste Cindy, Castiglioni Nicole, Luthar Suniya
Departments of Psychiatry and Child Study Center, Yale University School of Medicine, CT, USA.
Am J Orthopsychiatry. 2008 Jan;78(1):20-8. doi: 10.1037/0002-9432.78.1.20.
The authors examined maternal ego development in relation to psychopathology and parenting problems in a sample of substance abusing mothers. Given predilections at higher levels of ego development for introspection and guilt, the authors expected mothers at higher levels to report more psychopathology. Given predilections at lower levels of ego development for dichotomous perceptions and limited conceptions of causation, the authors expected mothers at low levels to report more problematic parenting behaviors. Intelligence was expected to correlate but not overlap with ego development. Subjects were 182 mothers who expressed interest in a randomized clinical trial for a new parenting intervention. Measures included the Washington University Sentence Completion Task--Short Form, the Parental Acceptance-Rejection Questionnaire, the Brief Symptom Inventory and the Kaufman Brief Intelligence Test. Results of correlation and multivariate analyses of variance confirmed predictions. Implications for future development of interventions for substance abusing mothers are discussed.
作者们在一组滥用药物的母亲样本中，研究了母亲自我发展与精神病理学及育儿问题之间的关系。鉴于自我发展水平较高者倾向于内省和有罪恶感，作者们预计处于较高水平的母亲会报告更多的精神病理学问题。鉴于自我发展水平较低者倾向于二分法认知和对因果关系的有限理解，作者们预计处于较低水平的母亲会报告更多有问题的育儿行为。预计智力与自我发展相关但不重叠。研究对象为182名对一项新的育儿干预随机临床试验表示感兴趣的母亲。测量工具包括华盛顿大学句子完成任务简表、父母接纳-拒绝问卷、简明症状量表和考夫曼简明智力测验。相关性分析和多变量方差分析结果证实了预测。文中讨论了对未来为滥用药物母亲制定干预措施的启示。
