Department of Psychology, Bournemouth University, Fern Barrow BH12 5BB, UK.
Department of Social Work, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND 58202, USA.
Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2019 Mar 23;16(6):1049. doi: 10.3390/ijerph16061049.
The current study examines the relationship between parents' and children's reports of parenting and their effects on children's mental health symptoms. Six hundred and sixty-six parent-child dyads in Taiwan participated in this study. The parents and the children filled out the parenting questionnaires, and the children also reported their general mental health. The results demonstrated that parental-reported and child-perceived parenting were positively correlated, but parents tended to report lower scores on authoritarian parenting and higher scores on Chinese parenting than did their children. There were also significant gender differences: The mothers reported higher authoritative parenting than did the fathers; and the boys perceived higher authoritarian and Chinese-culture specific parenting than did the girls. Moreover, the Chinese parenting had a negative effect on children's mental health outcomes. Finally, our results showed that children's perception of parenting had a stronger effect on children's mental health symptoms than did parental reports on parenting, urging future research to include the children's report when investigating the effects of parenting on children's mental health outcomes.
本研究考察了父母和孩子对教养方式的报告及其对孩子心理健康症状的影响之间的关系。台湾的 666 对亲子参与了这项研究。父母和孩子填写了教养问卷,孩子还报告了他们的一般心理健康状况。结果表明,父母报告的和孩子感知到的教养方式呈正相关,但父母报告的专制教养方式得分较低,而中国教养方式得分较高。此外,还存在显著的性别差异:母亲报告的权威教养方式高于父亲;男孩感知到的专制教养方式和中国文化特有的教养方式高于女孩。此外,中国教养方式对孩子的心理健康结果有负面影响。最后,我们的结果表明,孩子对教养方式的感知对孩子的心理健康症状的影响比父母对教养方式的报告更大,这促使未来的研究在调查教养方式对孩子心理健康结果的影响时纳入孩子的报告。