Davodi-Boroujerd Ghazal, Abasi Imaneh, Masjedi Arani Abbas, Aslzaker Maryam
Department of Clinical Psychology, School of Medicine, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
Iran J Psychiatry. 2022 Jan;17(1):61-71. doi: 10.18502/ijps.v17i1.8050.
Although many studies have investigated the effect of maternal personality on internalizing and externalizing behaviors of a child, the role of both mother and child's emotional mechanisms in these behaviors is little explored. The present study was focused on the relationship between the mother's personality, and internalizing and externalizing behaviors of children with the mediating role of children's alexithymia, mother's alexithymia, and children's emotion regulation (ER). 162 mothers and elementary school-aged children were recruited regarding their demographics and completed the NEO personality inventory, Child behavior checklist, Toronto alexithymia scale, Children's alexithymia measure, and Children's emotion regulation checklist. Data were analyzed using SPSS (ver.23), and AMOS (ver.23). Structural equations modeling demonstrated an acceptable model fit to data (CMIN/DF = 1.233, RSME = 0.038, GFI = 0.962). Mother's alexithymia predicted internalizing problems whereas it didn't predict externalizing problems in children. Also, the bootstrap results indicated that the mother and children's alexithymia and children's ER had mediating roles between mother's personality and externalizing and internalizing problems. The present results demonstrated that mother's personality can indirectly, through mother and children's alexithymia and children's ER act as an important factor in development of mental problems. In other words, findings indicated that children's emotional development is not a one-way road, but it is a mutual process that involves both the mother and the child.
尽管许多研究调查了母亲性格对孩子内化和外化行为的影响，但母亲和孩子的情绪机制在这些行为中的作用却鲜有探讨。本研究聚焦于母亲性格与孩子内化和外化行为之间的关系，以及孩子述情障碍、母亲述情障碍和孩子情绪调节（ER）的中介作用。招募了162名母亲和小学年龄段的孩子，收集了他们的人口统计学信息，并让他们完成了大五人格问卷、儿童行为清单、多伦多述情障碍量表、儿童述情障碍测量表和儿童情绪调节清单。使用SPSS（版本23）和AMOS（版本23）对数据进行分析。结构方程模型显示模型与数据拟合良好（CMIN/DF = 1.233，RSME = 0.038，GFI = 0.962）。母亲的述情障碍预示着孩子的内化问题，而对孩子的外化问题没有预示作用。此外，自抽样结果表明，母亲和孩子的述情障碍以及孩子的情绪调节在母亲性格与外化和内化问题之间起中介作用。本研究结果表明，母亲的性格可以通过母亲和孩子的述情障碍以及孩子的情绪调节间接成为心理问题发展的一个重要因素。换句话说，研究结果表明孩子的情绪发展不是单向的，而是一个涉及母亲和孩子的相互过程。
