Thorslund Karin, Alfredsson Elin, Axberg Ulf
Department of Psychology, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden.
Scand J Psychol. 2019 Feb;60(1):16-25. doi: 10.1111/sjop.12498. Epub 2018 Nov 9.
Parenting a child through adolescence can be a challenge for many parents; adolescents go through notable developmental, physical, and psychological changes that affect the relationships around them. Most parents find parental support during these years important. These young people's relationships with their parents are important to their mental health, but although parental support is universally available to parents of younger children, it is still scarce for parents of adolescents. The aim of this study was to explore what factors are associated with interest in universal parental support through telephone interviews and questionnaires with 223 parents of 13- to 17-year-olds. Parents' interest in parental support was linked to their own anxious mood, their lower perceived parental capacity, their perception of the child as having psychiatric problems, the parents' perception of their adolescents' openness about things and their perception of the adolescent's overall difficulties in daily life due to psychiatric symptoms. The results show that lighter forms of support such as lectures or seminars were more appealing to parents with higher social status. Offering community-based individual counseling and leader-led parent training groups therefore has the potential to reach parents with difficulties more equally, while offering support only through lectures and seminars could increase the inequality between parents in different social situations.
对许多父母来说，在孩子青春期养育他们是一项挑战；青少年会经历显著的发育、身体和心理变化，这些变化会影响他们周围的人际关系。大多数父母发现在这些年里获得父母支持很重要。这些年轻人与父母的关系对他们的心理健康很重要，但尽管年幼儿童的父母普遍能获得父母支持，青少年的父母仍然很难得到这种支持。本研究的目的是通过对223名13至17岁孩子的父母进行电话访谈和问卷调查，探索哪些因素与对普遍父母支持的兴趣相关。父母对父母支持的兴趣与他们自己的焦虑情绪、较低的父母能力认知、认为孩子有精神问题、父母对青少年对事情的开放性认知以及父母对青少年因精神症状在日常生活中总体困难的认知有关。结果表明，诸如讲座或研讨会等较轻松的支持形式对社会地位较高的父母更有吸引力。因此，提供基于社区的个体咨询和由领导者带领的家长培训小组有潜力更平等地惠及有困难的父母，而仅通过讲座和研讨会提供支持可能会加剧不同社会状况下父母之间的不平等。
