Research Center for Child Development, Beijing Key Laboratory of Learning and Cognition, School of Psychology, Capital Normal University, Beijing, China.
Research Department of Clinical, Education and Health Psychology, Faculty of Brain Sciences, University College London, London, UK.
New Dir Child Adolesc Dev. 2021 Nov;2021(180):95-116. doi: 10.1002/cad.20442. Epub 2021 Nov 26.
Grandmothers are important in Chinese families. This study explored the early emerging mother-grandmother-infant network and its association with child's socioemotional development in multigenerational families in a non-WEIRD country. The analytic sample included 60 children (T1: M = 6.5 months) and their caregivers residing in Beijing. Measures used were the Strange Situation Procedure (SSP), the Lausanne Trilogue Play (LTP), the Maternal Behavior Q-Sort (MBQS), and the Infant-Toddler Social and Emotional Assessment. Structural equation and path modeling revealed that (1) more grandmaternal neutral/watching coparenting behaviors at the first assessment were related to more secure infant-mother attachment relationships at the second assessment (T2: M = 1 year); (2) maternal sensitivity at T2 was a partial mediator between earlier undermining and neutral/watching coparenting behaviors and young children's externalizing problems at the final assessment (T3: M = 2 years). Findings are discussed in terms of the roles played by mother-grandmother coparenting network in the children's socioemotional development.
祖母在中国家庭中扮演着重要的角色。本研究在一个非西方的国家，探索了大家庭中早期出现的母婴-祖母关系网络，及其与儿童社会情感发展的关系。分析样本包括 60 名儿童（T1：平均年龄 6.5 个月）及其居住在北京的照顾者。使用的测量方法包括陌生情境程序（SSP）、洛桑三阶段游戏（LTP）、母婴行为 Q 分类（MBQS）和婴儿-幼儿社会情感评估。结构方程和路径建模表明：（1）第一次评估中更多的祖母中立/旁观的共同养育行为与第二次评估中更安全的婴儿-母亲依恋关系相关（T2：平均年龄 1 岁）；（2）T2 时的母亲敏感性是早期破坏和中立/旁观共同养育行为与幼儿最终评估时外化问题之间的部分中介（T3：平均年龄 2 岁）。研究结果从母婴-祖母共同养育网络在儿童社会情感发展中的作用进行了讨论。
