Conger R D, Patterson G R, Ge X
Iowa State University, USA.
Child Dev. 1995 Feb;66(1):80-97. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-8624.1995.tb00857.x.
In this study of parental stress and adolescent adjustment, experiences of negative life events during the recent past were used to generate a measure of acute stress. In addition, multiple indicators based on reports from various informants were used to estimate latent constructs for parental depression, discipline practices, and adolescent adjustment. Employing 2 independent samples of families from 2 different regions of the country (rural Iowa and a medium-sized city in Oregon), structural equation models were used to test the hypothesis that in intact families acute stress experienced by parents is linked to boys' adjustment (average age equaled 11.8 years in the Oregon sample, 12.7 years in the Iowa sample) through 2 different causal mechanisms. The findings showed that parental stress was related to adjustment through stress-related parental depression that is, in turn, correlated with disrupted discipline practices. Poor discipline appears to provide the direct link with developmental outcomes. The structural equation model (SEM) used to test the proposed mediational process was consistent with the data for mothers and boys from both the Oregon and the Iowa samples. The similarity in results was less clear for fathers and boys. Implications of these results for future replication studies are discussed.
在这项关于父母压力与青少年适应情况的研究中，近期负面生活事件的经历被用于生成一项急性压力指标。此外，基于不同信息提供者报告的多个指标被用于估计父母抑郁、管教方式和青少年适应情况的潜在结构。利用来自该国两个不同地区（爱荷华州农村和俄勒冈州一个中等规模城市）的两个独立家庭样本，采用结构方程模型来检验这样一个假设：在完整家庭中，父母所经历的急性压力通过两种不同的因果机制与男孩的适应情况相关联（俄勒冈州样本中男孩的平均年龄为11.8岁，爱荷华州样本中为12.7岁）。研究结果表明，父母压力通过与压力相关的父母抑郁与适应情况相关，而这种抑郁反过来又与混乱的管教方式相关。不良的管教方式似乎与发展结果存在直接联系。用于检验所提出的中介过程的结构方程模型（SEM）与来自俄勒冈州和爱荷华州样本的母亲和男孩的数据一致。父亲和男孩的结果相似性则不太明显。讨论了这些结果对未来重复研究的启示。
