Curtiss S L, Ebata A T
School of Education, University of Delaware, 015A Willard Hall Education Building, 25 North College Avenue, Newark, DE, 19716, USA.
Department of Human Development and Family Studies, University of Illinois, 1001A Doris Kelley Christopher Hall, 904 West Nevada Street, Urbana, IL, 61801, USA.
Appetite. 2021 Oct 1;165:105327. doi: 10.1016/j.appet.2021.105327. Epub 2021 May 26.
Shared family meals have important implications for child health and wellbeing, however, mealtimes with children on the autism spectrum are often characterized by stress and problematic behavior. A better understanding of the underlying processes can elucidate the mealtimes challenges that families with children on the spectrum face as well as how families overcome those challenges in order to promote family health and wellbeing. Through a grounded theory analysis of mealtime observations, parent interviews, and child interviews with 16 families in the United States, we identified a theory of A Dialectic of Control and Acceptance. Integral to the role of mealtimes is for parents to express love through control and acceptance, however, these parallel processes are in tension with one another. How parents negotiate this tension dictates the degree to which their expectations are well aligned with their children's strengths and challenges and are able to provide effective support.
共享家庭用餐对儿童的健康和幸福具有重要意义，然而，与自闭症谱系儿童一起用餐时，往往充满压力且行为问题不断。更好地理解其潜在过程，有助于阐明自闭症谱系儿童家庭在用餐时间面临的挑战，以及家庭如何克服这些挑战以促进家庭健康和幸福。通过对美国16个家庭的用餐观察、家长访谈和儿童访谈进行扎根理论分析，我们确定了一种“控制与接纳的辩证法”理论。用餐时间的一个重要作用是让父母通过控制和接纳来表达爱，然而，这两个并行的过程相互矛盾。父母如何协调这种矛盾，决定了他们的期望与孩子的优势和挑战相匹配的程度，以及能否提供有效的支持。
