Fergusson D M, Lynskey M T, Horwood L J
Christchurch Health and Development Study, Christchurch School of Medicine, Christchurch Hospital, New Zealand.
J Abnorm Child Psychol. 1993 Jun;21(3):245-69. doi: 10.1007/BF00917534.
There have been continuing concerns about the extent to which maternal depression may influence maternal reports of child behavior. To examine this issue, a series of structural equation models of the relationships between maternal depression and errors in maternal reports of child behavior was proposed and tested. These models assumed that (a) maternal depression was unrelated to maternal reporting behavior; (b) maternal depression causally influenced maternal reporting accuracy; (c) maternal depression was correlated with reporting accuracy. These models were fitted to data on maternal depression and multiple-informant (mother, teacher, child) reports of conduct disorder and attention deficit behaviors for a birth cohort of 12- and 13-year-old New Zealand children. The results of model fitting suggested the presence of small to moderate correlations (r = +.13 to +.40) between maternal depression and maternal reporting errors, indicating the presence of a tendency for increasing maternal depression to be associated with a tendency for mothers to over-report child behavior problems. However, independently of any effects of maternal depression on maternal reporting errors there was evidence of small but significant associations (r = .10 to .17; p < .05) between maternal depression and child conduct disorder and attention deficit behaviors.
母亲抑郁在多大程度上可能影响母亲对孩子行为的报告，一直是人们持续关注的问题。为了研究这个问题，我们提出并检验了一系列关于母亲抑郁与母亲对孩子行为报告中的误差之间关系的结构方程模型。这些模型假定：（a）母亲抑郁与母亲的报告行为无关；（b）母亲抑郁对母亲报告的准确性有因果影响；（c）母亲抑郁与报告准确性相关。这些模型被应用于一组关于12至13岁新西兰儿童出生队列的母亲抑郁以及多渠道（母亲、教师、孩子）对品行障碍和注意力缺陷行为报告的数据。模型拟合结果表明，母亲抑郁与母亲报告误差之间存在小到中等程度的相关性（r = +0.13至+0.40），这表明母亲抑郁程度增加往往与母亲过度报告孩子行为问题的倾向相关。然而，独立于母亲抑郁对母亲报告误差的任何影响之外，有证据表明母亲抑郁与孩子品行障碍和注意力缺陷行为之间存在小但显著的关联（r = 0.10至0.17；p < 0.05）。
