www.parentingculture.org, Richmond, VA, USA.
Department of Psychology, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA, USA.
Child Maltreat. 2023 Nov;28(4):673-682. doi: 10.1177/10775595231159661. Epub 2023 Mar 4.
Although considerable literature focuses on risk factors predicting parents' likelihood to engage in maltreatment, relatively less work evaluates potentially protective parental resources, particularly culturally relevant qualities. The current investigation utilized a multi-method longitudinal study to examine parents' racial identification as a possible resource, hypothesizing that Black parents with stronger racial group identification would demonstrate lower at-risk parenting, operationalized as lower child abuse risk and less negative observed parenting. In a sample of 359 mothers and fathers (half self-identified Black, half non-Hispanic White), controlling for socioeconomic status, findings partially supported the hypothesis. Black parents' greater racial identification was associated with lower child abuse risk and less observed negative parenting, whereas the reverse was true for White parents. The potential limitations of current assessment approaches to gauge at-risk parenting in parents of color are discussed, as well as how racial identification could be considered in culturally informed prevention programming for at-risk parenting.
尽管有大量文献集中探讨了预测父母虐待可能性的风险因素，但相对较少的工作评估了潜在的保护性父母资源，特别是具有文化相关性的特质。本研究采用了一种多方法纵向研究来检验父母的种族认同是否是一种可能的资源，假设具有更强种族群体认同的黑人父母会表现出较低的高危养育风险，表现为较低的儿童虐待风险和较少的负面观察养育。在 359 名母亲和父亲的样本中（一半自我认定为黑人，一半为非西班牙裔白人），控制了社会经济地位，研究结果部分支持了这一假设。黑人父母的种族认同感越强，儿童虐待风险越低，观察到的负面养育行为越少，而白人父母则恰恰相反。目前评估有色人种高危养育父母的方法存在潜在局限性，以及如何在高危养育的文化知情预防计划中考虑种族认同，这些问题都进行了讨论。
