Hill Zoelene, Spiegel Michelle, Gennetian Lisa A
The Institute of Human Development and Social Change, New York University, New York, NY, United States.
School of Education, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA, United States.
Front Psychol. 2020 Jun 23;11:910. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2020.00910. eCollection 2020.
We newly apply the concept of self-affirmation typically used in the domain of health and education to the domain of parenting. Recruiting parents of children age 13 or younger ( = 1,044), we test how eliciting positive self-concept affects interest in receiving parenting materials and participating in a parenting program. We find that an adapted, pride-based written self-affirmation exercise increased parents' positive self-concept and their interest in parenting programs and resources, particularly among parents with a high baseline fear of judgment associated with seeking help. Implications for applying insights from psychology as a strategy to mitigate fear of judgment to optimize participation in an evidence-based parenting program at scale are discussed.
我们首次将健康和教育领域常用的自我肯定概念应用于育儿领域。我们招募了13岁及以下儿童的家长（=1044名），测试激发积极的自我概念如何影响他们接受育儿材料和参与育儿项目的兴趣。我们发现，一种经过改编的、基于自豪感的书面自我肯定练习提高了家长的积极自我概念以及他们对育儿项目和资源的兴趣，尤其是在那些基线时对寻求帮助相关的评判高度恐惧的家长中。本文还讨论了应用心理学见解作为一种策略来减轻评判恐惧，以大规模优化参与循证育儿项目的意义。
