Finegood Eric D, Raver C Cybele, DeJoseph Meriah L, Blair Clancy
Department of Applied Psychology, Steinhardt School of Culture, Education and Human Development, New York University.
J Fam Psychol. 2017 Feb;31(1):51-60. doi: 10.1037/fam0000291.
Research has long acknowledged the centrality of parents' subjective experiences in the caregiving role for the organization of parenting behaviors and family functioning. Recent scientific advances in cognitive process models and in the neurobiology of parenting indicate that parenting is shaped in part by conscious and nonconscious cognitive processes. This study extends a growing literature on neurocognitive models of parenting by exploring the extent to which attention processes in parents operate independently and interactively with intrapsychic processes, proximal interpersonal stressors, and the larger socioeconomic context to predict perceptions of parenting hassles in primarily low-income Latino/a parents of young children living in urban areas of concentrated disadvantage (N = 185). Analyses indicated that parent reports of anxiety, intimate partner violence, and perceptions of financial hardship each uniquely predicted parents' perceptions of daily parenting hassles. Parents' attentional bias toward threat interacted with anxiety symptoms such that parents experiencing high levels of attention bias toward threat in combination with high levels of anxiety reported significantly more daily parenting hassles. Findings from the current study provide insight into the ways in which neurocognitive processes affect one aspect of parenting, with implications for programs and policies designed to support parenting for families in poverty. (PsycINFO Database Record
长期以来，研究一直承认父母的主观体验在养育行为组织和家庭功能中的核心地位。认知过程模型和养育神经生物学方面的最新科学进展表明，养育在一定程度上受到有意识和无意识认知过程的影响。本研究通过探讨父母的注意力过程在多大程度上与心理内部过程、近端人际压力源以及更大的社会经济背景独立运作和相互作用，以预测主要居住在高度贫困城市地区的低收入拉丁裔幼儿父母对养育困难的感知，扩展了关于养育神经认知模型的不断增长的文献（N = 185）。分析表明，父母报告的焦虑、亲密伴侣暴力和经济困难感知各自独特地预测了父母对日常养育困难的感知。父母对威胁的注意力偏差与焦虑症状相互作用，以至于经历高水平威胁注意力偏差且焦虑程度高的父母报告的日常养育困难显著更多。本研究结果为神经认知过程影响养育一个方面的方式提供了见解，对旨在支持贫困家庭养育的项目和政策具有启示意义。（PsycINFO数据库记录）
