Department of Human Development and Family Studies, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Institute of Child Development, University of Minnesota.
Dev Psychol. 2018 Feb;54(2):209-219. doi: 10.1037/dev0000418. Epub 2017 Oct 23.
Given that maternal support promotes healthy social and emotional development in early childhood, it is important to understand the predictors of such support, especially during emotional challenges. In this study, mothers' dispositional distress reactivity (i.e., the tendency toward experiencing distress in response to children's negative emotions and behavior) was assessed as a predictor of maternal support in a given moment when children showed within-person fluctuations in aversive behavior (i.e., negative affect and disruptive behaviors) in concurrent and prior moments. Data were collected when children were 33 months of age. Mothers (N = 128) reported on their distress reactivity, and maternal support and child aversive behavior were coded in 15-s intervals during a 5-min snack-delay task. As hypothesized, multilevel models revealed that mothers' dispositional distress reactivity predicted decreases in maternal support when children showed within-person increases in aversive behavior in the prior 15-s interval but not in the concurrent interval. Findings highlight the importance of investigating the contributions of maternal dispositional tendencies to moment-to-moment changes in parenting behavior during moderate, everyday challenges with young children. (PsycINFO Database Record
鉴于母亲的支持可以促进儿童早期的健康社会和情感发展，因此了解这种支持的预测因素非常重要，尤其是在面临情感挑战时。在这项研究中，母亲的特质性困扰反应性（即对儿童的负面情绪和行为做出困扰反应的倾向）被评估为在儿童在当前和前一个 15 秒内表现出厌恶行为（即负性情绪和破坏性行为）的个体内波动时，母亲支持的预测因素。数据是在儿童 33 个月大时收集的。母亲（N=128）报告了她们的困扰反应性，并且在 5 分钟的零食延迟任务中，在 15 秒的间隔内对母亲的支持和儿童的厌恶行为进行了编码。正如假设的那样，多层次模型显示，当儿童在前一个 15 秒间隔内表现出个体内的厌恶行为增加时，母亲的特质性困扰反应性预测了母亲支持的减少，但在当前间隔内则没有。研究结果强调了在儿童面临日常中等挑战时，调查母亲特质性倾向对养育行为的即时变化的重要性。
