Di Pentima Lorenza, Toni Alessandro, Schneider Barry H, Tomás José M, Oliver Amparo, Attili Grazia
Department of Social Sciences and Economics, Sapienza University of Rome , Italy.
Department of Psychology, Boston College , USA.
J Genet Psychol. 2019 Nov-Dec;180(6):251-265. doi: 10.1080/00221325.2019.1652557. Epub 2019 Sep 9.
Locus of control-the expectation that one is in control of one's outcomes in life-is linked to well-being. The authors explored one of the possible antecedents of locus of control such as secure children's attachment. The hypothesis was that locus of control acts as a mediator of the association between children's attachment and their mental health, in terms of depression, anxiety (internalizing problems), and aggression (externalizing problems). Participants were 206 children with ages ranging from 8 to 14 years. The authors obtained data from teachers as well as by self-report. Structural equations modelling yielded significant results for both a direct path from insecure attachment to internalizing problems and an indirect pathway in which locus of control functions as a mediating variable between children's attachment and internalizing problems. Although the data were consistent with the mediated pathway with regard to internalizing problems, different findings emerged for aggression. Insecure attachment was a significant predictor of aggressive behavior, while locus of control was not a mediator between attachment and aggressive behavior. The authors' findings confirm the mediating role of the locus of control between attachment and internalizing problems, but not between attachment and externalizing ones.
控制点——即人们认为自己能够掌控生活结果的期望——与幸福感相关联。作者探讨了控制点的一个可能的前因，比如儿童的安全依恋。假设是，就抑郁、焦虑（内化问题）和攻击行为（外化问题）而言，控制点在儿童依恋与其心理健康之间的关联中起中介作用。研究参与者为206名年龄在8至14岁之间的儿童。作者从教师以及自我报告中获取数据。结构方程模型对于从不安全依恋到内化问题的直接路径以及控制点作为儿童依恋与内化问题之间中介变量的间接路径均产生了显著结果。尽管数据在关于内化问题的中介路径方面是一致的，但在攻击行为方面出现了不同的结果。不安全依恋是攻击行为的一个显著预测因素，而控制点并非依恋与攻击行为之间的中介因素。作者的研究结果证实了控制点在依恋与内化问题之间的中介作用，但在依恋与外化问题之间并非如此。
