Stevens J H
Department of Early Childhood Education, Georgia State University, Atlanta 30303.
Child Dev. 1988 Jun;59(3):635-42.
Mother's social support, their instrumental use of extended family members and of professionals for help, and their sense of personal control were examined as predictors of parenting skill in 3 groups of low-income women. Separate regression models were generated for black adult mothers, white adult mothers, and black teen mothers, all of whom had at least 1 infant. Black teen and white adult mothers who sought help with child-rearing problems from extended family members were more skillful parents. Among white mothers, use of professionals for help with child-rearing problems and mothers' sense of internal control were also significant predictors. Black adult mothers' parenting skill was predicted only by locus of control. These prediction models suggest that in 2 of the groups, social ties to significant others were the linkages through which child-rearing information flowed to affect parenting behavior.
研究考察了母亲的社会支持、她们对大家庭成员和专业人士的工具性求助以及她们的个人控制感，以此作为三组低收入女性育儿技能的预测指标。分别为黑人成年母亲、白人成年母亲和黑人青少年母亲建立了回归模型，她们都至少有一个婴儿。向大家庭成员寻求育儿问题帮助的黑人青少年母亲和白人成年母亲是更有育儿技巧的父母。在白人母亲中，向专业人士寻求育儿问题帮助以及母亲的内控感也是重要的预测指标。黑人成年母亲的育儿技能仅由控制点预测。这些预测模型表明，在其中两组中，与重要他人的社会联系是育儿信息得以传递从而影响育儿行为的纽带。
