Hong Xiumin, Zhu Wenting, Zhao Sijie
Faculty of Education, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China.
School of Government, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China.
Healthcare (Basel). 2023 Feb 1;11(3):421. doi: 10.3390/healthcare11030421.
The present study aimed to investigate the status and relationships between family support for infant and toddler care and parenting stress, and to explore differences related to the number of children in the families. We conducted a survey among 13,390 Chinese parents who were randomly sampled from six provinces of China. Descriptive analysis, multivariate analysis of variance, and regression analysis indicated that (1) current family support for infant and toddler care in China is insufficient; (2) most Chinese parents reported moderate parenting stress, with the highest scores given for parental distress, followed by difficult child, and parent-child dysfunctional interaction; (3) the larger the number of children in the family, the less the family support for infant and toddler care, the greater the parenting stress; (4) there was a difference between the effects of family support for infant and toddler care on relieving parenting stress among families with different numbers of children. These findings indicate that different types of family support for infant and toddler care should be provided for families with different numbers of children, to ease parenting stress and promote the implementation of the government's current fertility policy.
本研究旨在调查家庭对婴幼儿照料的支持状况及其与育儿压力之间的关系，并探讨与家庭子女数量相关的差异。我们对从中国六个省份随机抽取的13390名中国家长进行了一项调查。描述性分析、多变量方差分析和回归分析表明：（1）目前中国家庭对婴幼儿照料的支持不足；（2）大多数中国家长报告称育儿压力适中，其中父母苦恼得分最高，其次是难养型子女和亲子功能失调互动；（3）家庭子女数量越多，家庭对婴幼儿照料的支持越少，育儿压力越大；（4）家庭对婴幼儿照料的支持在缓解不同子女数量家庭的育儿压力方面存在差异。这些研究结果表明，应针对不同子女数量的家庭提供不同类型的家庭对婴幼儿照料的支持，以缓解育儿压力，并促进政府现行生育政策的实施。
