Mississippi State University, Starkville, MS, USA.
Child Psychiatry Hum Dev. 2019 Jun;50(3):411-424. doi: 10.1007/s10578-018-0851-3.
The understanding of the complex relations between parent and child psychopathology would be enhanced if common patterns of parental problem types or particular parent dyads were identified. The current study used latent profile analysis to allow for a person-centered approach to the examination of which parental psychopathology subgroups based on their perceived depressive, anxiety, and antisocial problems are both most common and most strongly associated with emerging adult psychopathology. Participants included 2204 emerging adults enrolled in a Southern United States university who reported on their perceptions of their parents' and their own current psychological problems. A 5-profile solution for perceived parental psychopathology was identified and represented anticipated groups (e.g., low problems, high problems, high internalizing only, high externalizing only). The largest effects of these profiles were found for emerging adult antisocial problems, and paternal profiles demonstrated larger effect sizes relative to maternal profiles. When both parents were perceived as having elevated problems, emerging adults also generally reported the highest rates of their own psychological problems. Results also suggest that perceiving as having low problems may protect against the negative effects of the other parent's antisocial problems or depressive/anxiety problems, but may not be sufficient when a parent has elevated problems across domains. Findings indicate the importance of considering varying levels of psychopathology.
如果能够确定父母问题类型的常见模式或特定父母对子，那么对父母与子女精神病理学之间复杂关系的理解将会增强。本研究使用潜在剖面分析，允许采用以人为中心的方法来检查基于感知到的抑郁、焦虑和反社会问题的父母精神病理学亚组，这些亚组既最常见，又与成年早期精神病理学的关联最强。参与者包括 2204 名参加美国南部一所大学的成年早期人群，他们报告了自己对父母和自己当前心理问题的看法。确定了感知到的父母精神病理学的 5 个剖面解决方案，并代表了预期的群体（例如，低问题、高问题、高内部化问题、高外部化问题）。这些剖面的最大影响是出现在成年早期的反社会问题上，并且与母亲的剖面相比，父亲的剖面显示出更大的效应量。当父母双方都被认为存在问题时，成年早期人群通常也会报告自己心理问题的发生率最高。研究结果还表明，感知到低问题可能会预防另一位父母的反社会问题或抑郁/焦虑问题的负面影响，但当父母在多个领域存在问题时，这可能还不够。研究结果表明，考虑到不同程度的精神病理学是很重要的。
