O'Neal Elizabeth E, Plumert Jodie M
Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA. Email:
J Inj Violence Res. 2019 Jul;11(2):171-178. doi: 10.5249/jivr.v11i2.1093. Epub 2019 May 5.
Children from low-income families experience a disproportionate number of unintentional injuries compared to their middle-income peers. Parents are well positioned to teach children about avoiding injury, yet little is known about parent-child safety conversations in low-income families. This study examined to what extent mother-child safety conversations differ between low- and middle-income families.
Mothers and their 8- to 10-year-old children from low- and middle-income families discussed and rated the safety of photos showing another child engaged in potentially dangerous activities.
Dyads disagreed over safety ratings on a third of trials, and both middle- and low-income mothers were highly successful in resolving disagreements in their favor. Middle-income mothers justified their ratings by referring to almost twice as many dangerous features than outcomes, whereas low-income mothers generated roughly equal numbers of dangerous features and outcomes. Middle-income children did not differ in their references to dangerous features and outcomes, but low-income children focused heavily on dangerous outcomes relative to dangerous features.
Describing how middle- and low-income families discuss safety is a first step in understanding whether similarities and differences contribute to how middle- and low-income children evaluate and navigate potentially dangerous situations.
与中等收入家庭的同龄人相比，低收入家庭的儿童遭受意外伤害的比例过高。父母有能力教导孩子避免受伤，但对于低收入家庭中亲子间关于安全的对话却知之甚少。本研究调查了低收入和中等收入家庭中母子安全对话的差异程度。
来自低收入和中等收入家庭的母亲及其8至10岁的孩子讨论并对展示另一个孩子参与潜在危险活动的照片的安全性进行评分。
在三分之一的试验中，二元组在安全评级上存在分歧，并且中等收入和低收入母亲都非常成功地以自己的方式解决了分歧。中等收入母亲在证明其评级合理时提及的危险特征几乎是结果的两倍，而低收入母亲提及的危险特征和结果数量大致相等。中等收入家庭的孩子在提及危险特征和结果方面没有差异，但低收入家庭的孩子相对于危险特征更侧重于危险结果。
描述中等收入和低收入家庭如何讨论安全是理解异同是否有助于中等收入和低收入儿童评估和应对潜在危险情况的第一步。
