ISPA, University Institute of Psychological, Social and Life Sciences, Lisbon, Portugal; Department of Psychology, Personality, Social and Developmental Psychology, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden.
Department of Psychology, Education and Child Studies, Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands; Psychiatry Monash Health, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia.
Curr Opin Psychol. 2023 Apr;50:101580. doi: 10.1016/j.copsyc.2023.101580. Epub 2023 Apr 25.
Fathers have an increasingly important role in the family and contribute through their sensitive responsiveness to positive child development. Research on parenting more often included fathers as caregivers in the past two decades. We present a neurobiological model of sensitive responsive parenting with a role for fathers' hormonal levels and neural connectivity and processing of infant signals. We tested this model in a research program ("Father Trials") with correlational and randomized experimental studies, and we review the results of these studies. So far, interaction-focused behavioral interventions seem most promising in supporting fathers' sensitive responsiveness, even though the mechanisms are still uncharted.
父亲在家庭中扮演着越来越重要的角色，通过对孩子积极发展的敏感反应做出贡献。在过去的二十年中，育儿研究越来越多地将父亲视为照顾者。我们提出了一个神经生物学模型，认为父亲的激素水平和神经连接以及对婴儿信号的处理对敏感反应型育儿起着作用。我们在一个研究项目（“父亲试验”）中对该模型进行了测试，该项目包括相关和随机实验研究，我们对这些研究的结果进行了综述。到目前为止，以互动为重点的行为干预似乎最有希望支持父亲的敏感反应能力，尽管其机制仍未可知。
