Department of Psychology.
Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior.
J Fam Psychol. 2020 Aug;34(5):523-533. doi: 10.1037/fam0000638. Epub 2020 Feb 6.
This study examined children's insecure representations of the family as a mechanism accounting for the association between coparental discord and children's externalizing problems in a diverse sample of 243 preschool children (mean [M] age = 4.60 years). The results from a multimethod, multi-informant, prospective design indicated that coparental discord was indirectly related to children's externalizing behaviors through their insecure representations of the family. Higher levels of coparental discord were specifically linked with more insecure representations of the family, which in turn predicted higher levels of externalizing behaviors 2 years later. These pathways remained robust even after considering the roles of general family adversity, child gender, and family income per capita as predictors in the analyses. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2020 APA, all rights reserved).
本研究以 243 名学龄前儿童(平均[M]年龄=4.60 岁)为研究对象,考察了儿童对家庭的不安全感认知在父母冲突与儿童外化问题之间的中介作用。采用多方法、多信息源、前瞻性设计的研究结果表明,父母冲突通过儿童对家庭的不安全感认知间接影响儿童的外化行为。父母冲突水平越高,儿童对家庭的不安全感认知越不稳定,而这种不稳定的认知又会在 2 年后预测更高水平的外化行为。即使在分析中考虑了一般家庭逆境、儿童性别和家庭人均收入等预测因素,这些路径仍然是稳健的。