Escuela de Psicología, Instituto Iberoamericano de Desarrollo Sostenible, Facultad de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades, Universidad Autónoma de Chile, Temuco 4810101, Chile.
Department of Methodology of Behavioral Sciences, Faculty of Psychology, University of Valencia, 46010 Valencia, Spain.
Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2021 Dec 21;19(1):45. doi: 10.3390/ijerph19010045.
Parenting stress and parental adjustment could implicate key differences in the relational dynamics that parents establish with their children, particularly when families come from vulnerable social contexts.
Participants were 142 fathers and mothers from a risk neighborhood of Chile. The variables examined were parenting stress (parental distress, parent-child dysfunctional interaction and difficult child) and parental adjustment (depression, anxiety, and stress). Parents also completed a sociodemographic characterization survey. The statistical analyses were a correlation analysis and multiple linear regression analyses.
Overall, not all components of parenting stress were related to parental adjustment. Only parental distress was found as a significant predictor of poor parental adjustment (greater depression, anxiety, and stress), but not parent-child dysfunctional interaction and having a difficult child.
The present study findings highlight the influence of stress on parenting as a relevant dimension of research for the improvement of the intervention deployed by the state regarding the protection of vulnerable Chilean children, providing multiple clinical and psychosocial applications for research and intervention purposes.
育儿压力和父母调整可能暗示着父母与孩子建立关系动态方面的关键差异，尤其是当家庭来自脆弱的社会环境时。
参与者是来自智利一个高危社区的 142 位父亲和母亲。研究的变量包括育儿压力（父母困扰、父母-子女功能失调互动和困难儿童）和父母调整（抑郁、焦虑和压力）。父母还完成了一份社会人口特征描述调查。统计分析包括相关分析和多元线性回归分析。
总体而言，育儿压力的并非所有成分都与父母调整有关。只有父母困扰被发现是父母调整不良（更多的抑郁、焦虑和压力）的一个显著预测因素，而不是父母-子女功能失调互动和有困难的孩子。
本研究结果强调了压力对育儿的影响，这是研究的一个相关维度，有助于改善国家针对脆弱智利儿童的保护干预措施，为研究和干预目的提供了多种临床和心理社会应用。
