Kouros Chrystyna D, Merrilees Christine E, Cummings E Mark
Department of Psychology, 114 Haggar Hall, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN 46556.
J Marriage Fam. 2008 Aug;70(3):684-697. doi: 10.1111/j.1741-3737.2008.00514.x.
Evidence has emerged for emotional security as an explanatory variable linking marital conflict to children's adjustment. Further evidence suggests parental psychopathology is a key factor in child development. To advance understanding of the pathways by which these family risk factors impact children's development, the mediational role of emotional security for children with parents who have potentially clinical levels of depression compared to children whose parents have lower levels of symptomatology was examined (i.e., moderated mediation). Participants included 297 families assessed annually for 3 years. Paternal depression moderated pathways, such that marital conflict was associated with greater child emotional insecurity 2 years later in the context of paternal depression. Testing alternative pathways, emotional insecurity mediated relations between maternal depression and externalizing problems.
有证据表明，情感安全感是将婚姻冲突与儿童适应联系起来的一个解释变量。进一步的证据表明，父母的精神病理学是儿童发展的一个关键因素。为了加深对这些家庭风险因素影响儿童发展途径的理解，研究了情感安全感在父母有潜在临床抑郁水平的儿童与父母症状较轻的儿童中的中介作用（即调节中介）。参与者包括297个家庭，每年进行评估，持续3年。父亲的抑郁调节了途径，即在父亲抑郁的情况下，婚姻冲突在两年后与儿童更大的情感不安全感相关。在测试替代途径时，情感不安全感介导了母亲抑郁与外化问题之间的关系。
