School of Psychology, Brain and Mind Centre, The University of Sydney, Australia.
School of Psychology, Brain and Mind Centre, The University of Sydney, Australia.
Child Abuse Negl. 2018 Jul;81:225-234. doi: 10.1016/j.chiabu.2018.04.026. Epub 2018 May 11.
Research into parenting influences on child conduct problems in Asian countries has been limited compared to that conducted in Western countries, especially with regard to interplay between parenting and callous unemotional (CU) traits (e.g., lack of guilt and empathy). This study examined associations between dimensions of aggressive parenting practices (psychological aggression, mild and severe physical aggression), dimensions of child aggression (proactive, reactive), and child CU traits, in Singapore. Participants were children and adolescents with clinic-referred externalizing problems (N = 282; 87.6% boys), aged 7-16 years. Mild and severe parental physical aggression was found to be uniquely associated with children's proactive aggression, whereas parental psychological aggression was uniquely associated with both proactive and reactive aggression. Consistent with previous evidence regarding CU traits as moderators of the relationship between negative parenting and child conduct problems, physically aggressive parenting was found to be more strongly associated with children's proactive aggression among children with low levels of CU traits, than those with high CU traits. These findings support the need for ongoing research into CU traits in Asian cultures, focused on heterogeneous risk pathways to antisocial behavior and individual differences in response to family-based interventions.
与在西方国家进行的研究相比，亚洲国家关于父母养育方式对儿童行为问题影响的研究一直较为有限，特别是在养育方式与无情无感情（CU）特质（例如缺乏内疚感和同理心）之间的相互作用方面。本研究考察了新加坡攻击型养育方式（心理攻击、轻度和重度身体攻击）、儿童攻击行为（主动、反应）和儿童 CU 特质之间的关联。参与者为有临床诊断的外化问题的儿童和青少年（N=282；87.6%为男孩），年龄为 7-16 岁。轻度和重度父母身体攻击与儿童的主动攻击行为呈独特相关，而父母心理攻击与主动和反应性攻击行为均呈独特相关。与 CU 特质作为负向养育与儿童行为问题之间关系的调节因素的先前证据一致，在 CU 特质水平较低的儿童中，身体攻击养育方式与儿童的主动攻击行为的相关性更强，而在 CU 特质水平较高的儿童中则较弱。这些发现支持了在亚洲文化中持续研究 CU 特质的必要性，重点关注反社会行为的异质风险途径和对基于家庭的干预措施的个体差异。
