Keller B B
J Abnorm Child Psychol. 1981 Sep;9(3):311-9. doi: 10.1007/BF00916835.
Studies using the Functional Pairs Approach to the study of socialization processes are reviewed, and its strengths and weaknesses are discussed. By staging social encounters between children and biologically unrelated adults, this approach can achieve excellent isolation of causal effects involving a wide range of behaviors. Its main limitation concerns the extent to which the results obtained from staged interactions between unfamiliar children and adults generalize to real parent-child relations. Through careful construction of experimental situations, this limitation can be partially overcome. Ultimately, the choice of a method will depend on several considerations, including the complexity of the behavior to be manipulated and the relative importance of generalizability versus clear isolation of effects. The decisions involved in investigating causal influences between parents and children are summarized in a flow chart.
回顾了使用功能对方法研究社会化过程的研究，并讨论了其优缺点。通过安排儿童与无血缘关系的成年人之间的社交互动，这种方法可以很好地分离出涉及广泛行为的因果效应。其主要局限性在于，从不熟悉的儿童与成年人之间的模拟互动中获得的结果在多大程度上能够推广到真实的亲子关系中。通过精心构建实验情境，这一局限性可以得到部分克服。最终，方法的选择将取决于几个因素，包括要操控行为的复杂性以及普遍性与效应清晰分离的相对重要性。文中用流程图总结了研究父母与子女之间因果影响时所涉及的决策。
