Department of Preventive and Social Medicine, University of Otago, Dunedin, 9016, New Zealand.
Department of Preventive and Social Medicine, University of Otago, Dunedin, 9016, New Zealand.
J Adolesc. 2021 Jan;86:90-100. doi: 10.1016/j.adolescence.2020.12.005. Epub 2020 Dec 25.
In extending work on early life antecedents of parenting, we investigate associations between childhood family history of disadvantage, adolescent socioemotional wellbeing, and age at first parenthood and subsequent parenting behaviour.
Parent-child interactions were recorded when participants in the longitudinal Dunedin Multidisciplinary Health and Development Study (New Zealand) had a three-year-old child. Data were available for 358 mothers and 321 fathers, aged between 17.7 and 41.5 at the time of their child's birth. Associations between parenting and antecedent data on socioeconomic disadvantage, adolescent wellbeing and mental health, as well as current adult mental health and age at parenting, were tested for using structural equation modelling.
Family disadvantage in childhood and lower adolescent wellbeing was associated with less positive future parenting, but only adult (not adolescent) anxiety/depression symptoms were directly associated with parenting behaviour. Childhood family disadvantage was associated with further disadvantage across the life course that included less positive parenting of the next generation. In contrast, socioemotional wellbeing during adolescence and later age of onset of parenting were associated with more positive parenting.
Reducing childhood disadvantage and improving socioemotional wellbeing during childhood and adolescence is likely to have intergenerational benefits through better parenting of the next generation.
在扩展有关育儿早期生活背景的研究工作时，我们调查了童年时期家庭劣势史、青少年社会情感健康状况以及首次为人父母的年龄与后续育儿行为之间的关联。
当纵向达尼丁多学科健康与发展研究（新西兰）的参与者有一个三岁的孩子时，记录了亲子互动。研究数据可用于 358 名母亲和 321 名父亲，他们在孩子出生时的年龄在 17.7 至 41.5 岁之间。使用结构方程模型测试了育儿和童年时期社会经济劣势、青少年幸福感和心理健康以及当前成年心理健康和育儿年龄等先行数据之间的关联。
童年时期的家庭劣势和较低的青少年幸福感与未来更消极的育儿行为有关，但只有成年人（而不是青少年）的焦虑/抑郁症状与育儿行为直接相关。童年时期的家庭劣势与整个生命周期中的进一步劣势有关，包括对下一代的更消极的养育。相比之下，青少年时期的社会情感健康和较晚的为人父母年龄与更积极的育儿行为有关。
减少儿童时期的劣势和改善儿童和青少年时期的社会情感健康状况，有望通过更好地养育下一代，带来代际效益。
