Gallitto Elena
Carleton University.
Dev Psychopathol. 2015 Aug;27(3):757-73. doi: 10.1017/S0954579414000753. Epub 2014 Aug 29.
This study examined the role of child temperament as moderator of the effect of parenting style on children's externalizing and internalizing behaviors. A series of structural equation models were fit to a representative sample of 2,631 Canadian children from the National Longitudinal Survey of Children and Youth. In addition to testing for the presence of Temperament × Parenting interactions, these models also examined the direct and indirect effects of a number of additional contextual factors such as neighborhood problems, neighborhood cohesion, social support, and maternal depression. The results indicate that exposure to more positive parenting reduces behavior problems in children with difficult/unadaptable temperaments. No moderating effects of temperament on hostile parenting were found. Such results serve to highlight the pivotal role of positive features of the rearing environment as catalysts for the successful adaptation of children with difficult/unadaptable temperaments. The results of this modeling work also serve to emphasize the importance of considering the ways in which more distal factors can affect children's behavioral adaptation by contributing to changes in proximal family processes.
本研究考察了儿童气质作为教养方式对儿童外化行为和内化行为影响的调节变量的作用。一系列结构方程模型被应用于来自加拿大全国儿童和青少年纵向调查的2631名儿童的代表性样本。除了检验气质×教养方式交互作用的存在，这些模型还考察了一些其他背景因素的直接和间接影响，如邻里问题、邻里凝聚力、社会支持和母亲抑郁。结果表明，接受更积极的教养方式可减少气质困难/不适应儿童的行为问题。未发现气质对敌意教养方式有调节作用。这些结果凸显了养育环境的积极特征作为气质困难/不适应儿童成功适应的催化剂的关键作用。该建模工作的结果还强调了考虑更遥远的因素通过促成近端家庭过程变化来影响儿童行为适应方式的重要性。
