Longobardi Claudio, Quaglia Rocco, Settanni Michele
Department of Psychology, University of Turin Turin, Italy.
Front Psychol. 2016 Jun 1;7:836. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2016.00836. eCollection 2016.
Our study was designed to address a gap in the literature on parents' perception and motivation to protect their infants from potential risk of injury in the transition from crawling to walking. The participants were 260 Italian subjects, of whom 158 were women and 102 men, aged between 20 and 45 years. They were asked to draw two domestic objects (a kitchen table and a CD cover) to assess the possible alterations in the perception of environmental elements seen by the parents as a potentially dangerous cause of unintentional injury for their child. Analysis showed that the group of mothers with children aged 9-18 months had drawn the largest tables, while the table areas of the other two categories of women were much smaller. As for the males, the group that drew the largest tables was the one with children, but not in the age range of 9-18 months, while there was little difference between the other two groups. The final descriptive analysis concerned the average scores on the STAI-Y tests both for state and trait anxiety. In all groups a substantial parity was observed, except for the non-parent men, who had a lower level of state anxiety. Both the fathers and the mothers of children aged 9-18 months obtained lower scores, both for state and trait anxiety. Based on the findings, we demonstrate that children transitioning from crawling to walking can elicit a perceptive reactivity in their mothers, which satisfies their natural need to protect their offspring.
我们的研究旨在填补文献中关于父母在婴儿从爬行过渡到行走阶段对保护其免受潜在伤害风险的认知和动机方面的空白。参与者为260名意大利受试者，其中158名女性和102名男性，年龄在20至45岁之间。他们被要求画出两件家居物品（一张餐桌和一个CD封面），以评估父母视为可能对其孩子造成意外伤害的潜在危险因素的环境元素认知可能发生的变化。分析表明，孩子年龄在9至18个月的母亲群体画出的桌子最大，而其他两类女性画出的桌子面积要小得多。至于男性，画出最大桌子的群体是有孩子的男性，但孩子年龄不在9至18个月范围内，而其他两组之间差异不大。最后的描述性分析涉及状态焦虑和特质焦虑的STAI-Y测试平均得分。在所有组中，除了无子女男性的状态焦虑水平较低外，观察到基本相当的情况。孩子年龄在9至18个月的父亲和母亲在状态焦虑和特质焦虑方面的得分均较低。基于这些发现，我们证明从爬行过渡到行走阶段的孩子会引发母亲的感知反应，这满足了她们保护后代的自然需求。
