Department of Psychology, The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, USA.
Department of Psychology, Ouachita Baptist University, Arkadelphia, Arkansas, USA.
J Appl Res Intellect Disabil. 2022 Nov;35(6):1418-1428. doi: 10.1111/jar.13031. Epub 2022 Aug 24.
Parenting styles mediate parental stress and child emotions in families of typically developing (TD) children. Our main aim was to study these relations in families of children with Down syndrome (DS), who in past research reported increased parental stress and permissive parenting.
Our sample included 100 parents of children with DS and 72 parents of TD children age 4-12 years. Parents completed online surveys of parental adjustment and emotion regulation (ER), parenting styles, and child ER and mood.
Parents of children with DS reported more distress and permissive parenting than parents of TD children. Within parents of children with DS, there was an indirect effect of parental stress on child emotions through permissive parenting. This effect was partly conditional upon parental ER and positive adjustment.
Results have implications for distressed parents of children with DS whose families may benefit from improved coping strategies and increased support.
在发育正常(TD)儿童的家庭中,育儿风格在父母压力和儿童情绪之间起中介作用。我们的主要目的是研究唐氏综合征(DS)儿童家庭中的这些关系,过去的研究表明,这些家庭中的父母压力和宽容型教养方式增加。
我们的样本包括 100 名唐氏综合征儿童的父母和 72 名发育正常儿童的父母,年龄在 4-12 岁之间。父母在线完成了父母适应和情绪调节(ER)、育儿风格以及儿童 ER 和情绪的调查。
唐氏综合征儿童的父母报告的压力和宽容型教养方式比发育正常儿童的父母多。在唐氏综合征儿童的父母中,父母压力通过宽容型教养方式对儿童情绪产生间接影响。这种影响部分取决于父母的 ER 和积极的适应能力。
对于唐氏综合征儿童的压力大的父母来说,结果具有启示意义,他们的家庭可能受益于改善应对策略和增加支持。