Stover Carla Smith, Zhou Yuchun, Leve Leslie D, Neiderhiser Jenae M, Shaw Daniel S, Reiss David
University of South Florida and Yale Child Study Center.
University of Nebraska at Lincoln.
J Appl Dev Psychol. 2015 Nov-Dec;41:19-27. doi: 10.1016/j.appdev.2015.06.003.
Parenting beliefs and attributions can influence parenting behavior. We used an adoption design to examine the associations among perinatal risk and poor birth mother health, adoptive parent appraisals of birth mothers' mental health, and genetic attributions to adoptive parents' feelings and behaviors toward their adopted infants. A sample of 361 pairs of adoptive parents and birth mothers were interviewed using standardized measures when infants were between 4 and 9 months old. Adoptive mothers and fathers were observed during play tasks when their infants were 9 months old. We found that adoptive mothers' and fathers' appraisals of birth mothers' health were associated with perinatal risk and poor birth mother health. Adoptive mothers' appraisals were linked to hostile parenting, after accounting for characteristics of the child that may influence her appraisals and attributions. These associations were not present for adoptive fathers. Genetic attributions were associated with both adoptive mother and fathers' feelings of daily hassles in parenting. These findings have implications for prevention and intervention.
育儿观念和归因会影响育儿行为。我们采用了收养设计来研究围产期风险与生母健康状况不佳、养父母对生母心理健康的评估以及养父母对其收养婴儿的情感和行为的遗传归因之间的关联。当婴儿4至9个月大时，使用标准化测量方法对361对养父母和生母进行了访谈。当婴儿9个月大时，观察了养父母在游戏任务中的表现。我们发现，养父母对生母健康的评估与围产期风险和生母健康状况不佳有关。在考虑了可能影响其评估和归因的孩子特征后，养母的评估与敌对育儿方式有关。养父不存在这些关联。遗传归因与养母和养父在育儿过程中日常烦恼的感受都有关。这些发现对预防和干预具有启示意义。
