Department of Psychology, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN 46556, USA.
J Fam Psychol. 2012 Oct;26(5):767-75. doi: 10.1037/a0029470. Epub 2012 Aug 13.
Destructive parentification occurs when children are expected to provide instrumental or emotional caregiving within the family system that overtaxes their developmental capacity. According to parentification theory, destructive parentification in family of origin poses a risk to child development in subsequent generations; however, there is a paucity of empirical research examining the impact of a maternal history of destructive parentification on parenting quality and child outcomes in subsequent generations. The present study examined the potential risk of maternal history of parentification on child adjustment by hypothesizing that a maternal history of parentification in family of origin would have a negative impact on quality of maternal warm responsiveness at 18 months of age which would, in turn, be associated with increased children's externalizing symptoms at 36 months. Results indicated that there was a significant indirect effect of maternal history of destructive parentification in family of origin on child externalizing behavior in the next generation through maternal warm responsiveness, supporting the hypothesized model. This finding suggests that facilitating the development of maternal contingent responsiveness among mothers with a history of destructive parentification may promote more adaptive child development in the next generation.
当孩子被期望在家庭系统中提供工具性或情感照顾，而这超出了他们的发展能力时，就会发生破坏性的家长式教养。根据家长式教养理论，原生家庭中的破坏性家长式教养会对后代的儿童发展构成风险；然而，目前还缺乏实证研究来检验母亲有破坏性家长式教养史对后代养育质量和儿童结果的影响。本研究通过假设母亲原生家庭中的家长式教养史会对 18 个月时母亲温暖回应的质量产生负面影响，从而对儿童的外化症状产生影响，进而检验了母亲有家长式教养史对儿童适应的潜在风险，而这种负面影响反过来又与儿童在 36 个月时的外化症状增加有关。结果表明，母亲原生家庭中的破坏性家长式教养史对下一代儿童外化行为的影响存在显著的间接效应，通过母亲温暖的回应，支持了假设模型。这一发现表明，促进有破坏性家长式教养史的母亲发展出母性的回应能力，可能会促进下一代更适应的儿童发展。
