Meppelder Marieke, Hodes Marja W, Kef Sabina, Schuengel Carlo
Department of Clinical Child and Family Studies and the EMGO(+) Institute for Health and Care Research, Faculty of Psychology and Education, VU University Amsterdam, Van der Boechorststraat 1, 1081 BT Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Department of Clinical Child and Family Studies and the EMGO(+) Institute for Health and Care Research, Faculty of Psychology and Education, VU University Amsterdam, Van der Boechorststraat 1, 1081 BT Amsterdam, The Netherlands; ASVZ, Sliedrecht, The Netherlands.
Res Dev Disabil. 2014 Dec;35(12):3260-8. doi: 10.1016/j.ridd.2014.08.015. Epub 2014 Aug 30.
This study of staff supporting parents with mild intellectual disabilities or borderline intellectual functioning (MID) focused on staff mindset regarding the extent to which parenting skills of parents with MID can change (an incremental mindset) or are static (an entity mindset). Staff mindset was tested as a predictor of two outcome variables: quality of the working alliance and parental waiting time to ask professional support. In addition, mindset was tested as a moderator of associations between parental adaptive functioning and the two outcome variables. A small majority of staff (56%) held a more incremental oriented mindset. A more incremental oriented mindset was associated with a shorter intended waiting time to seek professional support. Staff mindset moderated the association between parental adaptive functioning and working alliance, that is, lower levels of parental adaptive functioning were associated with lower working alliance quality, but the association was less strong when staff held a more incremental oriented mindset. The results of the current study show that staff mindset might be important for the quality of support for parents with MID and for reducing the risks for families where parents have MID. Attention is due to staff mindset in improving support for parents with MID.
这项针对为轻度智力残疾或边缘智力功能（MID）的父母提供支持的工作人员的研究，聚焦于工作人员对于MID父母的育儿技能在多大程度上可以改变（增量心态）或保持不变（实体心态）的看法。工作人员的心态被作为两个结果变量的预测指标进行测试：工作联盟的质量和父母寻求专业支持的等待时间。此外，心态还被作为父母适应性功能与两个结果变量之间关联的调节变量进行测试。一小部分工作人员（56%）持有更倾向于增量的心态。更倾向于增量的心态与更短的寻求专业支持的预期等待时间相关。工作人员的心态调节了父母适应性功能与工作联盟之间的关联，也就是说，父母适应性功能水平较低与工作联盟质量较低相关，但当工作人员持有更倾向于增量的心态时，这种关联就没那么强烈了。当前研究的结果表明，工作人员的心态对于为MID父母提供支持的质量以及降低父母患有MID的家庭的风险可能很重要。在改善对MID父母的支持方面，应关注工作人员的心态。
