Oppenheimer K, Prinz R J, Bella B S
Department of Family Medicine, Medical College of Georgia, Augusta.
Fam Med. 1990 Mar-Apr;22(2):107-11.
Family physicians frequently see children and parents when they are adjusting to marital separation. This study examined how well child adjustment at school could be determined from an assessment of interspousal relations, maternal functioning, and child perception variables. Teachers evaluated adaptive functioning, social withdrawal, and aggressive behavior at school for a carefully selected sample of 22 boys and 24 girls (ages 7-12) whose parents had been separated for two to 18 months. Regression analyses indicated that boys' overall school adjustment was associated with better maternal parenting skills, lower child fear of abandonment, less blaming of father for the separation, and positive parental verbal attributions toward the other parent. Girls with better overall school adjustment reported less blaming of their mothers and a higher rate of positive attributions by mother about father. These findings suggest concepts family physicians can use in working with families to minimize the effect of divorce on children.
家庭医生在儿童及其父母适应婚姻分离时经常会见到他们。本研究探讨了通过评估夫妻关系、母亲功能和儿童认知变量，能在多大程度上确定儿童在学校的适应情况。教师对精心挑选的22名男孩和24名女孩（年龄在7至12岁之间）在学校的适应性功能、社交退缩和攻击行为进行了评估，这些孩子的父母已分居两至18个月。回归分析表明，男孩在学校的总体适应情况与更好的母亲养育技能、更低的儿童被遗弃恐惧、对父亲较少的分离责备以及父母对另一方父母的积极言语归因有关。总体学校适应情况较好的女孩报告对母亲的责备较少，且母亲对父亲的积极归因率较高。这些发现为家庭医生在与家庭合作时提供了一些概念，以尽量减少离婚对孩子的影响。
