Brennan J, Andrews G, Morris-Yates A, Pollock C
Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Children's Hospital, Camperdown, New South Wales, Australia.
J Nerv Ment Dis. 1990 Sep;178(9):592-5. doi: 10.1097/00005053-199009000-00007.
The study aimed to determine the predominant defense style in parents who abuse their children, at least as determined by a new defense style questionnaire. The scores of 32 parents who had physically abused their young children and had been assessed after court proceedings were compared with a normal population sample and with patients with anxiety disorders who were equally symptomatic. Parents who had abused their children identified themselves as being particularly likely to use projection, displacement, passive-aggressiveness denial, and splitting to a degree greater than normal persons or patients with anxiety disorders. We would caution that, although the differences remained after statistical control of age and sex differences, a firm conclusion that such defenses are germane to child abuse will have to await replication of these findings with a study using a control group of young parents who do not abuse their children matched for social class and family structure.
该研究旨在确定虐待孩子的父母中占主导地位的防御方式，至少通过一种新的防御方式问卷来确定。将32名身体虐待幼儿且在法庭程序后接受评估的父母的得分，与正常人群样本以及有同等症状的焦虑症患者进行比较。虐待孩子的父母认为自己特别有可能使用投射、转移、被动攻击否认和分裂等防御方式，且程度高于正常人和焦虑症患者。我们要提醒的是，尽管在对年龄和性别差异进行统计控制后差异仍然存在，但要得出这些防御方式与虐待儿童密切相关的明确结论，还需等待一项研究的结果得到重复验证，该研究使用一组与虐待孩子的年轻父母社会阶层和家庭结构相匹配但不虐待孩子的对照组。
