Department of Social and Developmental Psychology, University of Deusto, Bilbao, Spain.
Department of Nursing, University of Alicante, Alicante, Spain.
PLoS One. 2018 Aug 27;13(8):e0202894. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0202894. eCollection 2018.
Parents' perception that their child may be vulnerable to serious life-threatening illnesses can have negative effects on how they exercise their parenting. No studies have yet been carried out on parent´s perception of their child's vulnerability, when the child has not suffered a severe illness. This study tries to analyze the relationship between parent´s perception of their children´s vulnerability and parental competence, and analyzes the mediating role of postnatal depression and parental stress.
The study was carried out on mothers and fathers of full-term infants who did not have any serious illnesses. A total of 965 people (385 fathers and 580 mothers) participated in the study.
The results revealed an association between parental perception of their child's vulnerability and parent's perception of parental competence through depression and parental stress. However, this association was different for fathers and mothers.
The variable of perception of child's vulnerability was a relevant factor to understand parental competence.
父母认为自己的孩子可能容易患上危及生命的严重疾病，这可能会对他们的育儿方式产生负面影响。目前还没有研究探讨过当孩子没有患上严重疾病时，父母对孩子脆弱性的看法。本研究试图分析父母对孩子脆弱性的看法与父母能力之间的关系，并分析产后抑郁和父母压力的中介作用。
本研究对象为足月婴儿的母亲和父亲，这些婴儿没有任何严重疾病。共有 965 人（385 名父亲和 580 名母亲）参与了这项研究。
研究结果表明，父母对孩子脆弱性的看法与父母对自身能力的看法通过抑郁和父母压力相关联。然而，这种关联在父亲和母亲之间有所不同。
对孩子脆弱性的感知这一变量是理解父母能力的一个相关因素。
