Swenson Stephanie, Ho Grace W K, Budhathoki Chakra, Belcher Harolyn M E, Tucker Sharon, Miller Kellie, Gross Deborah
J Pediatr Health Care. 2016 Jan-Feb;30(1):49-56. doi: 10.1016/j.pedhc.2015.09.010. Epub 2015 Oct 30.
Parents' use of praise and criticism are common indicators of parent-child interaction quality and are intervention targets for mental health treatment. Clinicians and researchers often rely on parents' self-reports of parenting behavior, although studies about the correlation of parents' self-reports and actual behavior are rare. We examined the concordance between parents' self-reports of praise and criticism of their children and observed use of these behaviors during a brief parent-child play session. Parent self-report and observational data were collected from 128 parent-child dyads referred for child mental health treatment. Most parents reported praising their children often and criticizing their children rarely. However, parents were observed to criticize their children nearly three times more often than they praised them. Self-reported and observed praise were positively correlated (rs = 0.32, p < .01), whereas self-reported and observed criticisms were negatively correlated (rs = -0.21, p < .05). Parents' tendencies to overestimate their use of praise and underestimate their use of criticism are discussed.
父母使用表扬和批评是亲子互动质量的常见指标，也是心理健康治疗的干预目标。临床医生和研究人员通常依赖父母对养育行为的自我报告，尽管关于父母自我报告与实际行为相关性的研究很少。我们研究了父母对孩子表扬和批评的自我报告与在一次简短的亲子游戏环节中观察到的这些行为的使用情况之间的一致性。从128对前来接受儿童心理健康治疗的亲子二元组中收集了父母的自我报告和观察数据。大多数父母报告说经常表扬孩子，很少批评孩子。然而，观察发现父母批评孩子的频率几乎是表扬孩子频率的三倍。自我报告的表扬和观察到的表扬呈正相关（rs = 0.32，p <.01），而自我报告的批评和观察到的批评呈负相关（rs = -0.21，p <.05）。讨论了父母高估自己表扬行为的使用和低估自己批评行为的使用的倾向。
