University of California Davis Children's Hospital, USA.
Dev Psychopathol. 2012 Feb;24(1):79-92. doi: 10.1017/S0954579411000678.
The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of mothers' physical abusiveness on the quality of the mother-child relationship, and note how it further varied by their exposure to interparental violence (IPV). The sample consisted of 232 clinic-referred children, aged 2 to 7 years, and their biological mothers. Slightly more than a quarter of the children (N = 63, 27.2%) had been physically abused by their mothers; approximately half of these children also had a history of exposure to IPV (N = 34, 54%). Investigating effects of physical abuse in the context of IPV history on mothers' and children's emotional availability, we found that physically abused children with no IPV exposure appeared less optimally emotionally available than physically abused children with an IPV exposure. However, subsequent analyses showed that although dyads with dual-violence exposure showed emotional availability levels similar those of nonabusive dyads, they were more overresponsive and overinvolving, a kind of caregiving controllingness charasteric of children with disorganized attachment styles. These findings lend some support to the notion that the effects of abuse on the parent-child relationship are influenced by the context of family violence, although the effects appear to be complex.
本研究旨在探讨母亲身体虐待对母子关系质量的影响，并注意其如何因父母间暴力（IPV）的暴露而进一步变化。样本包括 232 名来自诊所的 2 至 7 岁儿童及其亲生母亲。超过四分之一的儿童（N=63，27.2%）曾遭受过母亲的身体虐待；其中约一半的儿童也有过接触 IPV 的历史（N=34，54%）。在 IPV 历史背景下，研究身体虐待对母亲和儿童情感可用性的影响，我们发现，没有 IPV 暴露的身体受虐儿童的情感可用性似乎不如有 IPV 暴露的身体受虐儿童。然而，后续分析表明，尽管双重暴力暴露的对子与非受虐对子的情感可用性水平相似，但它们表现出过度反应和过度投入，这是一种具有组织混乱依恋风格的儿童的养育控制特征。这些发现为这样一种观点提供了一些支持，即虐待对亲子关系的影响受到家庭暴力背景的影响，尽管影响似乎很复杂。
