Sociology and Center on Aging and the Life Course, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47906, USA.
J Gerontol B Psychol Sci Soc Sci. 2013 Jul;68(4):593-8. doi: 10.1093/geronb/gbt039. Epub 2013 May 20.
We examine the differential effects of perceived maternal and paternal favoritism in adulthood on sibling tension in adulthood.
Data used in the analysis were collected from 341 adult children nested within 137 later-life families as part of the Within-Family Differences Study.
Adult children's perceptions that their fathers currently favored any offspring in the family predicted reports of tension with their siblings, whereas perceptions of mothers' favoritism did not. Fathers' favoritism was a stronger predictor of daughters' than sons' reports of sibling tension.
These findings contribute to a growing body of research demonstrating the consequences of parental favoritism in adulthood. Equally important, they demonstrate that perceptions of fathers' current favoritism plays an even greater role in shaping their adult children's sibling relations than do mothers' favoritism.
本研究旨在探讨成年后感知到的父母偏袒对成年后兄弟姐妹紧张关系的差异影响。
本分析使用的数据来自于作为“家庭内差异研究”一部分的 137 个老年家庭中的 341 位成年子女。
成年子女感知到父亲目前偏爱家庭中的任何一个子女,这预示着他们与兄弟姐妹之间的紧张关系,而感知到母亲的偏袒则没有这种影响。父亲的偏袒对女儿而非儿子报告的兄弟姐妹紧张关系的预测作用更强。
这些发现丰富了父母偏袒对成年子女的影响的研究成果。同样重要的是,它们表明,与母亲的偏袒相比,父亲当前的偏袒对塑造其成年子女的兄弟姐妹关系起着更大的作用。