Department of Psychology, Florida Atlantic University, Fort Lauderdale, FL 33314, USA.
Dev Psychol. 2010 Nov;46(6):1792-8. doi: 10.1037/a0020679.
The authors examined decreases across the early adolescent years in child reports of perceived support from mothers to determine whether the rate of decline differed as a function of the initial amount of perceived negativity in the mother-child relationship. Participants included a diverse sample of 197 girls and 116 boys who were in the 1st year of middle school (6th grade, ages 11 to 13 years) at the beginning of the study. Separate growth curve models revealed associations between the rate of change in child-reported perceived support and the initial level of both child-reported perceived negativity and mother-reported perceived negativity. Over-time declines in child-reported perceived support were larger for adolescents whose initial levels of perceived negativity were greater. The findings are consistent with the claim that mothers and children with the worst relationships at the outset of adolescence experience the greatest deterioration in relations across the early adolescent years.
作者研究了儿童在整个青少年早期对来自母亲的感知支持的减少情况，以确定下降的速度是否因母子关系中最初感知到的负面程度的不同而有所差异。参与者包括在研究开始时处于初中第一年（6 年级，年龄在 11 至 13 岁）的 197 名女孩和 116 名男孩的多样化样本。单独的增长曲线模型揭示了儿童报告的感知支持变化率与儿童报告的感知负面程度和母亲报告的感知负面程度的初始水平之间的关联。对于最初感知到的负面程度较高的青少年来说，他们报告的感知支持下降的速度更快。这些发现与这样一种说法一致，即在青春期开始时关系最糟糕的母亲和孩子在整个青少年早期经历了关系的最大恶化。
