Hannighofer Jasmin, Foran Heather, Hahlweg Kurt, Zimmermann Tanja
Department of Psychosomatics and Psychotherapy, Hannover Medical School, Hanover, Germany.
Department of Clinical Psychology, University of Klagenfurt, Klagenfurt, Austria.
Front Psychiatry. 2017 Nov 29;8:266. doi: 10.3389/fpsyt.2017.00266. eCollection 2017.
Mothers and children of single or unstable relationships have higher rates of mental health problems than those in stable two-parent families. Despite results that mothers and children of conflictual two-parent families also show impairments, most studies do not consider relationship quality. Therefore, the present study combines relationship status and relationship quality to a "family type." The present study compares German mothers and children of two-parent families with high relationship quality to those from two-parent families with a low quality, single mothers, and unstable families. Data of = 249 families from a 10-year follow-up longitudinal study show that mothers with a high relationship quality show the highest levels of mental health whereas all other groups show at least a 3.2 times higher probability of mental health symptoms. Children of mothers in unstable relationships show a 8.2 times higher probability to emotional or behavioral problems than children of mothers with high relationship quality. Therefore, not only relationship status but also relationship quality should be combined and this "family type" should be considered in future research.
与双亲关系稳定的家庭相比，单亲家庭或关系不稳定家庭中的母亲和孩子出现心理健康问题的几率更高。尽管有研究结果表明，双亲关系冲突的家庭中的母亲和孩子也存在心理障碍，但大多数研究并未考虑关系质量。因此，本研究将关系状况和关系质量合并为一种“家庭类型”。本研究将关系质量高的双亲家庭中的德国母亲和孩子与关系质量低的双亲家庭、单亲母亲家庭及关系不稳定家庭中的母亲和孩子进行比较。一项为期10年的随访纵向研究中249个家庭的数据显示，关系质量高的母亲心理健康水平最高，而其他所有组出现心理健康症状的概率至少高出3.2倍。关系不稳定的母亲的孩子出现情绪或行为问题的概率比关系质量高的母亲的孩子高出8.2倍。因此，不仅应将关系状况和关系质量合并考虑，而且在未来研究中应考虑这种“家庭类型”。
