Xing Shufen, Gao Xin, Liu Xia, Ma Yuanyuan, Wang Zhengyan
Department of Psychology, Capital Normal University, Beijing, China.
Institute of Developmental Psychology, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China.
Front Psychol. 2018 Oct 12;9:1952. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2018.01952. eCollection 2018.
It is important to identify the developmental antecedents of externalizing behavioral problems in early childhood. The current study examined the main effects of maternal personality and its interactive effects with child temperamental reactivity in predicting child externalizing behavioral problems, indicated by impulsivity and aggression. This study was composed of 70 children ( = 17.6 months, = 3.73) and their mothers. The results showed that maternal agreeableness was negatively associated with child impulsivity. Child temperamental reactivity moderated the effect of maternal conscientiousness on child impulsivity in support of the differential susceptibility model. Specifically, for highly reactive children, maternal conscientiousness was negatively associated with child impulsivity whereas this association was non-significant for low reactive children. Child reactivity also moderated the contribution of maternal neuroticism to child impulsivity. That is, maternal neuroticism was negatively associated with impulsivity, only for highly reactive children.
识别幼儿期外化行为问题的发展前因很重要。本研究考察了母亲人格的主效应及其与儿童气质反应性的交互效应,以预测儿童的外化行为问题,以外倾性和攻击性来衡量。本研究由70名儿童(平均年龄 = 17.6个月,标准差 = 3.73)及其母亲组成。结果表明,母亲的宜人性与儿童的冲动性呈负相关。儿童气质反应性调节了母亲尽责性对儿童冲动性的影响,这支持了差异易感性模型。具体而言,对于高反应性儿童,母亲的尽责性与儿童的冲动性呈负相关,而对于低反应性儿童,这种关联不显著。儿童反应性也调节了母亲神经质对儿童冲动性的影响。也就是说,母亲的神经质仅与高反应性儿童的冲动性呈负相关。