East P L, Matthews K L, Felice M E
University of California, San Diego.
J Adolesc Health. 1994 Mar;15(2):163-8. doi: 10.1016/1054-139x(94)90544-4.
This study examined the interrelations among adolescent mothers' parenting attitudes, parenting confidence, and parenting stress and the potential differences in these dimensions by mothers' age, race and parity, and age and sex of child.
Subjects were 119 former adolescent mothers (M age = 20.2 years) from predominantly poor, minority backgrounds (50% Hispanic, 27% African-American, 17% non-Hispanic white). All subjects completed questionnaires about their parenting qualities twice an average of 10 weeks apart. All children were at least one year of age (M age = 37.2 months; range 12-50 months).
Results indicated that for some mothers there exists a triple jeopardy of low parenting confidence, high parenting stress, and inappropriate parenting values. Young maternal age at delivery and young maternal age at the time of this study were associated with low child acceptance. Non-Hispanic white mothers had significantly more favorable parenting values than did African-American and Hispanic mothers, and African-American mothers reported significantly greater caretaking confidence than did Hispanic mothers. No parity or sex of child effects were found.
These results suggest the presence of meaningful patterns of convergence and within-group variation for the psychological qualities of adolescent mothers' parenting.
本研究考察了青春期母亲的育儿态度、育儿信心和育儿压力之间的相互关系，以及这些维度在母亲年龄、种族、胎次以及孩子年龄和性别的潜在差异。
研究对象为119名曾经的青春期母亲（平均年龄20.2岁），她们大多来自贫困的少数族裔背景（50%为西班牙裔，27%为非裔美国人，17%为非西班牙裔白人）。所有研究对象平均每隔10周填写两次关于育儿品质的问卷。所有孩子至少一岁（平均年龄37.2个月；范围为12 - 50个月）。
结果表明，对于一些母亲来说，存在育儿信心低、育儿压力高和育儿价值观不当的三重风险。分娩时母亲年龄小以及本研究时母亲年龄小与对孩子接纳度低有关。非西班牙裔白人母亲的育儿价值观明显比非裔美国人和西班牙裔母亲更积极，非裔美国母亲报告的照料信心明显高于西班牙裔母亲。未发现胎次或孩子性别的影响。
这些结果表明，青春期母亲育儿的心理品质存在有意义的趋同模式和组内差异。
