1 Department of Applied Psychology and Human Development, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
2 Department of Psychology, Ryerson University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Child Maltreat. 2018 May;23(2):147-156. doi: 10.1177/1077559517734937. Epub 2017 Oct 15.
This study examined maternal depressive symptoms, social support, parenting, and adult attachment as mediators explaining the relation between maternal childhood maltreatment and child behavior in offspring. We assessed a community sample of 96 mother-child dyads. At child age 16 months, mothers self-reported maltreatment history, adult attachment, depressive symptoms, and social support, and maternal sensitivity was assessed via 2 hr of direct behavioral observation. Maternal reports of child behavior were collected at 5 years. Single and parallel mediation models were constructed. Only maternal depressive symptoms mediated the relation between maternal maltreatment history and children's internalizing problems. Maternal sensitivity emerged as a suppressor variable. With respect to the relation between maternal maltreatment history and children's externalizing problems, when entered singly, maternal depressive symptoms, social support, and avoidant attachment emerged as mediators. When examined in parallel, only maternal depressive symptoms and avoidant attachment accounted for unique mediating variance. Findings have implications with respect to important maternal factors that might be targeted to reduce the probability of maladaptive child behavior.
本研究考察了母亲抑郁症状、社会支持、育儿方式和成人依恋作为中介因素，解释了母亲童年期虐待与子女行为之间的关系。我们评估了一个由 96 对母婴组成的社区样本。在孩子 16 个月大时，母亲自我报告了虐待史、成人依恋、抑郁症状和社会支持，并且通过 2 小时的直接行为观察评估了母亲的敏感性。在孩子 5 岁时收集了母亲对孩子行为的报告。构建了单一和并行中介模型。只有母亲的抑郁症状中介了母亲虐待史与孩子内化问题之间的关系。母亲的敏感性是一个抑制变量。就母亲虐待史与孩子外化问题之间的关系而言，当单独纳入时，母亲的抑郁症状、社会支持和回避依恋成为中介因素。当并行检查时，只有母亲的抑郁症状和回避依恋解释了独特的中介方差。这些发现对可能被用来降低不良儿童行为概率的重要母亲因素具有重要意义。
