Fergusson D M, Horwood L J, Shannon F T
Pediatrics. 1984 Jun;73(6):773-6.
The relationship between maternal reports of child-rearing problems, family life events, and maternal depressive symptoms was studied in a birth cohort of children in New Zealand. Rates of child-rearing problems showed a steady increase with both increasing levels of family life events and maternal depressive symptoms. Log-linear modeling of the results suggested that the apparent correlation between family life events and reports of child-rearing problems was mediated by the effects of maternal depression so that women subject to large numbers of adverse life events suffered increased rates of depression and in turn reported higher rates of problem behavior in their children. There was no significant correlation between family life events and reports of child-rearing problems when the effects of maternal depressive symptoms were taken into account. The findings tend to suggest that the previously reported association between family life events and child-rearing problems arises because life events provoke depressive symptoms in women and in turn this alters the way in which they perceive or evaluate their children's behavior.
在新西兰一个儿童出生队列中，研究了母亲报告的育儿问题、家庭生活事件与母亲抑郁症状之间的关系。育儿问题的发生率随着家庭生活事件水平和母亲抑郁症状的增加而稳步上升。对结果进行的对数线性建模表明，家庭生活事件与育儿问题报告之间的明显相关性是由母亲抑郁的影响介导的，因此遭受大量不良生活事件的女性患抑郁症的几率增加，进而报告其子女出现问题行为的几率更高。当考虑到母亲抑郁症状的影响时，家庭生活事件与育儿问题报告之间没有显著相关性。这些发现倾向于表明，先前报道的家庭生活事件与育儿问题之间的关联是因为生活事件引发了女性的抑郁症状，进而改变了她们感知或评估子女行为的方式。
