Department of Human Development and Applied Psychology, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada, M5S 1V6.
J Abnorm Child Psychol. 2010 May;38(4):557-68. doi: 10.1007/s10802-009-9385-2.
The goal of this exploratory, within-family, longitudinal study was to examine whether children's perspectives of the mother-child relationship explained within-family differences in children's responses to a shared family stressor (maternal depressive symptoms) over time. Children (ages 8 to 15 years; N = 68) residing in 34 families were drawn from a general population study in the UK. Predictor variables were assessed at Time 1 and change in internalizing behavior from Time 1 to Time 2 (2 years later) was examined. As children were nested within families, data were analyzed using multilevel modeling, controlling for previous child behavior. Child perspective of the mother-child relationship, in interaction with maternal depressive symptoms, was found to explain within-family differences in internalizing over time. Children with a negative perspective (compared to mothers' perspectives) were the most vulnerable to the adverse effects of maternal depressive symptoms.
本探索性、家族内、纵向研究的目的是检验儿童对母子关系的看法是否能解释随着时间的推移，儿童对共同家庭应激源（母亲抑郁症状）的反应在家族内的差异。来自英国一项普通人群研究的 34 个家庭中的 8 至 15 岁儿童（N=68）参与了该研究。预测变量在第 1 时间点进行评估，从第 1 时间点到第 2 时间点（2 年后）的内化行为变化情况进行了考察。由于儿童是嵌套在家庭内的，因此使用多层次模型进行数据分析，控制了先前的儿童行为。结果发现，母子关系中的儿童视角，与母亲的抑郁症状相互作用，解释了随时间推移内在化的家族内差异。与母亲的观点（相比）持消极观点的儿童最容易受到母亲抑郁症状的不利影响。
