Hickox A, Furnell J R
Middlesbrough General Hospital.
Child Care Health Dev. 1989 Jul-Aug;15(4):227-40. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2214.1989.tb00618.x.
Seven parents legally established as emotionally abusing their children were compared with a closely matched control group of seven 'problem' parents in a day nursery. The experimental group parents showed significantly more psychosocial and background factors associated with undifferentiated abuse or physical abuse and neglect; specifically, these factors included poor coping skills, difficulty in building relationships, and poor child management techniques. In addition, the emotionally abusing parents reported a significantly higher incidence of behavioural deviancy in their children than the control caregivers. Perceived stress and lack of support also appeared critical in differentiating the two groups. The results suggest that a background of emotional abuse or deprivation may predispose an adult to have inadequate or absent coping strategies to handle difficult child behaviour, resulting in a negative parent-child interaction and failure to make use of outside support.
研究将七名被依法认定为存在情感虐待子女行为的家长，与一家日托中心中与之紧密匹配的七名“问题”家长组成的对照组进行了比较。实验组的家长表现出更多与未分化型虐待、身体虐待及忽视相关的心理社会因素和背景因素；具体而言，这些因素包括应对技能差、建立人际关系困难以及儿童管理技巧欠佳。此外，与对照组的照料者相比，实施情感虐待的家长报告称其子女出现行为偏差的发生率显著更高。感知到的压力和缺乏支持在区分这两组家长方面似乎也很关键。研究结果表明，情感虐待或情感剥夺的背景可能使成年人倾向于缺乏应对困难儿童行为的足够策略或根本没有应对策略，从而导致负面的亲子互动，并无法利用外部支持。
