McCain Centre for Child, Youth and Family Mental Health, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, ON, Canada.
Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.
Clin Child Fam Psychol Rev. 2021 Dec;24(4):707-724. doi: 10.1007/s10567-021-00361-5. Epub 2021 Jul 1.
Maladaptive parental attributions for their children's behavior have been linked to poorer parenting skills, heightened child internalizing and externalizing difficulties, and parents' less willingness to engage in treatment. Although most parental attributions research has been focused on White or European-origin parents, attention has recently turned to ethnic and cultural groups that are underrepresented literature. The present scoping review synthesized existing work on parental attributions among ethnocultural minority and immigrant parents in an adopted country and parents residing in their native non-Western country of origin.
A systematic search of five databases was conducted for literature published up to and including the last week of December 2020. Title and abstract screening, then full-text screening, identified 18 records for inclusion in the review.
Although descriptive, single-culture studies showed that maladaptive parental attributions were associated with poorer parenting and child outcomes across cultures, studies comparing ethnocultural groups demonstrated differences in parental attributions across groups.
Despite the rise in and importance of literature on parental attributions, these results point to a limited scope in understanding parental attributions of ethnocultural minority, immigrant, and country of origin parents. Gaps identified in the literature point to promising future research directions, and a call is made for culturally sensitive parental attribution measures.
父母对子女行为的适应不良归因与较差的育儿技能、儿童内化和外化问题加剧以及父母不太愿意接受治疗有关。尽管大多数父母归因研究都集中在白人或欧洲裔父母身上，但最近人们开始关注在文献中代表性不足的族裔和文化群体。本范围综述综合了在收养国的少数族裔和移民父母以及在原籍非西方国家的父母中有关父母归因的现有工作。
对五个数据库进行了系统搜索，以获取截至 2020 年最后一周发表的文献。通过标题和摘要筛选，然后进行全文筛选，确定了 18 份记录纳入综述。
尽管描述性的单一文化研究表明，适应不良的父母归因与跨文化的较差育儿和儿童结果有关，但比较族裔群体的研究表明，群体之间的父母归因存在差异。
尽管有关父母归因的文献数量有所增加且重要性日益增加，但这些结果表明，对少数族裔、移民和原籍国父母的父母归因的理解范围有限。文献中的差距指出了未来有希望的研究方向，并呼吁使用文化敏感的父母归因措施。
