Birtchnell J, Kennard J
Br J Med Psychol. 1982 Jun;55(Pt 2):177-86. doi: 10.1111/j.2044-8341.1982.tb01496.x.
A sample of 160 female, psychiatric patients from North-east Scotland whose mothers died before they were aged 11 was compared with 80 non-bereaved, female, psychiatric patients, matched by decade of birth, from the same area. Six subgroups of the bereaved patients classified according to the events which followed the bereavement were also examined. In addition, samples of 44 and 27 women from the Chichester general population, whose mothers died before age 11 and from 11 to 19 respectively, were paired by age, parental social class and age at death of father, with Chichester women who were not mother-bereaved. Comparisons were made in respect of age at marriage, relative age of subject and marital partner quality and fate of marriage, delay between marriage and birth of first child, total number of children, and ability to cope with the birth and subsequent child-rearing. The early bereaved women showed a tendency to marry younger men but otherwise their marriages were no different from those of the controls. The early bereaved had more difficulties with child-rearing, particularly when their children reached adolescence. Surprisingly, the findings for the six subgroups were not appreciably different from those of the total bereaved patients.
对来自苏格兰东北部的160名女性精神病患者进行了研究，她们的母亲在她们11岁之前去世，将其与来自同一地区、按出生年代匹配的80名未经历丧亲之痛的女性精神病患者进行比较。还对根据丧亲后发生的事件分类的6个丧亲患者亚组进行了检查。此外，分别从奇切斯特普通人群中选取了44名和27名女性作为样本，她们的母亲分别在她们11岁之前和11至19岁时去世，将她们按年龄、父母社会阶层和父亲去世时的年龄与未经历丧母之痛的奇切斯特女性进行配对。对结婚年龄、受试者与婚姻伴侣的相对年龄、婚姻质量和婚姻命运、结婚与生育第一个孩子之间的间隔、孩子总数以及应对生育和后续育儿的能力进行了比较。早年丧亲的女性倾向于嫁给较年轻的男性，但除此之外，她们的婚姻与对照组没有差异。早年丧亲的女性在育儿方面有更多困难，尤其是当她们的孩子进入青春期时。令人惊讶的是，6个亚组的研究结果与全部丧亲患者的结果没有明显差异。
