Lie Ken Jie Christopher, Jessen Yramategui Joanne, Huang Richard
The Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry, Western University, Canada.
Clin Child Psychol Psychiatry. 2025 Apr;30(2):465-478. doi: 10.1177/13591045251314908. Epub 2025 Jan 13.
Today, for divorcing parents, the social norms of "good" parenting appear to impose obligations to "fight" for shared custody of their children. However, this may intensify conflicts experienced by their children in the form of cognitive dissonance. Authors conducted a rapid review to explore children's experiences of divorce (ages three to 12 years old) in the context of narrative therapy, in order to uncover the mechanism of cognitive dissonance. Four databases of Scopus, PsychINFO, Family and Societies Studies Worldwide, and PubMed were searched for literature in the last 10 years. Results included 11 study articles, one policy brief, and one book chapter, representing the experiences of 1169 children from seven developed countries/regions. Our findings suggest four themes associated with cognitive dissonance, whereby the first three represent the formation of harmful perceptions of cognitive dissonance resulting from divorce. The fourth represents the children's coping strategies to reduce their cognitive dissonance. We advocate that family mediators consider narrative therapy targeting cognitive dissonance as a means of repairing disruptions to family coherence. In this regard, we recommend that future research explore the consequences of children's confrontation of their cognitive dissonance in narratives found to be prevalent in children's experiences of divorce.
如今，对于离婚的父母来说，“良好”育儿的社会规范似乎给他们施加了为争取孩子共同抚养权而“斗争”的义务。然而，这可能会以认知失调的形式加剧孩子所经历的冲突。作者进行了一项快速综述，以探讨在叙事疗法背景下3至12岁儿童的离婚经历，从而揭示认知失调的机制。在Scopus、PsychINFO、《全球家庭与社会研究》和PubMed这四个数据库中搜索了过去10年的文献。结果包括11篇研究文章、1篇政策简报和1章书籍内容，代表了来自7个发达国家/地区的1169名儿童的经历。我们的研究结果提出了与认知失调相关的四个主题，其中前三个主题代表了离婚导致的对认知失调的有害认知的形成。第四个主题代表了孩子们减少认知失调的应对策略。我们主张家庭调解人将针对认知失调的叙事疗法视为修复家庭关系破裂的一种手段。在这方面，我们建议未来的研究探讨儿童在离婚经历中普遍存在的叙事中面对认知失调的后果。
