Tang Connie M
Department of Psychology, Richard Stockton College of New Jersey, Pomona, NJ 08240, USA.
J Health Hum Serv Adm. 2008 Winter;31(3):356-84.
The phenomenon of child neglect has been nebulous due to limited research on child neglect and the meshing of child neglect with child abuse. There are disagreements among neglect researchers about several important issues, such as whether to frame child neglect as a child's unmet needs or as omissions in parental behavior. It has therefore been difficult to develop a standard conceptual definition of child neglect. In this article, a conceptual definition of child neglect is proposed. The definition's stand on a few important issues is discussed. Finally, how the conceptual definition can guide the formulation of operational definitions for both research and practice is described.
由于对儿童忽视的研究有限，以及儿童忽视与虐待儿童现象相互交织，儿童忽视现象一直模糊不清。在忽视问题研究者之间，对于几个重要问题存在分歧，比如是将儿童忽视界定为儿童未得到满足的需求，还是父母行为中的疏忽。因此，很难制定出儿童忽视的标准概念定义。本文提出了儿童忽视的概念定义。讨论了该定义在几个重要问题上的立场。最后，阐述了该概念定义如何指导研究和实践中操作定义的制定。
