Department of Human Development and Family Science, College of Health and Human Sciences, Florida State University, Sandels 225, 120 Convocation Way, Tallahassee, FL, 32306, United States.
Res Child Adolesc Psychopathol. 2023 Oct;51(10):1391-1405. doi: 10.1007/s10802-023-01082-9. Epub 2023 May 25.
Guided by a culture-sensitive attachment framework (Keller, 2016), the purpose of the current study was to examine multigenerational homes as moderators on the associations among maternal depressive symptoms, maternal-child attachment, and child behavioral problems, between White and Latinx women. A subsample (n = 2,366) of The Future of Families and Child Wellbeing Study (FFCWS) - previously known as the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study - was used with three time points (at child ages 1-, 3-, and 5-years). Mothers reported their depressive symptoms at child age 1, mother-child attachment at child age 3, and child behavioral problems at child age 5. Home structure was assessed through the mothers' responses at child ages 1 and 3. A path model was used to examine the associations among maternal depressive symptoms, mother-child attachment insecurity, and child behavioral problems, with comparisons among four groups: White non-multigenerational homes, White multigenerational homes, Latinx non-multigenerational homes, and Latinx multigenerational homes. Findings revealed that higher mother-child attachment insecurity at age 3 predicted higher internalizing behaviors at age 5, only among children in Latinx, non-multigenerational homes, but not among those in Latinx, multigenerational homes or White homes. This study revealed significant cultural and ethnical differences in household living arrangements and child wellbeing, with significant theoretical contributions to the understanding of cultural phenomena in attachment research and implications towards designing culturally sensitive intervention programs.
本研究以文化敏感型依恋框架(Keller,2016)为指导,旨在检验多代同堂家庭在母亲抑郁症状、母婴依恋与儿童行为问题之间的关系中的调节作用,研究对象为白人女性和拉丁裔女性。本研究使用了《家庭与儿童福利研究》(FFCWS)的一个子样本(n=2366),该研究之前被称为《脆弱家庭与儿童福利研究》,共包含三个时间点(儿童 1 岁、3 岁和 5 岁时)。母亲在儿童 1 岁时报告了自己的抑郁症状,在儿童 3 岁时报告了母婴依恋情况,在儿童 5 岁时报告了儿童行为问题。家庭结构则通过母亲在儿童 1 岁和 3 岁时的回答进行评估。本研究采用路径模型来检验母亲抑郁症状、母婴依恋不安全感与儿童行为问题之间的关联,并在四个群体间进行了比较:白人非多代同堂家庭、白人多代同堂家庭、拉丁裔非多代同堂家庭和拉丁裔多代同堂家庭。研究结果显示,3 岁时母婴依恋不安全感越高,5 岁时儿童的内化问题行为越严重,这种关联仅存在于拉丁裔非多代同堂家庭的儿童中,而在拉丁裔多代同堂家庭或白人家庭的儿童中并不存在。本研究揭示了家庭居住安排和儿童福利方面存在显著的文化和种族差异,对依恋研究中文化现象的理解具有重要的理论贡献,并对设计文化敏感型干预方案具有启示意义。