Birtchnell J
MRC Social and Community Psychiatry Unit, Institute of Psychiatry, De Crespigny Park, London.
Br J Psychiatry. 1993 Mar;162:335-44. doi: 10.1192/bjp.162.3.335.
The study tested Bowlby's hypothesis that experiencing the poor relating of parents in childhood predisposes the individual to poor relating in adult life. Data were drawn from two community samples: a younger sample of 25-34-year-old married women, and an older one of 40-49-year-old women. Data were also drawn from the husbands of the women in the younger sample. It focused on the single childhood variable of the recollection of poor maternal care. To avoid the effect of this on depression or other psychopathology, groups who were depressed and not depressed, or who were at different levels of psychopathology, were examined separately. Recollection of poor early care was associated with poor relating, lower age at marriage, poor-quality marriage and divorce from first marriage. There was a suggestion that the effects of the recollection of poor early care of marital partners summate.
该研究检验了鲍尔比的假说，即童年时期经历与父母关系不佳会使个体在成年后倾向于建立不良关系。数据取自两个社区样本：一个是年龄在25至34岁的已婚女性较年轻样本，另一个是年龄在40至49岁的女性较年长样本。数据还取自较年轻样本中女性的丈夫。研究聚焦于对母亲不良照料回忆这一单一童年变量。为避免其对抑郁或其他精神病理学问题产生影响，对抑郁和未抑郁群体，或处于不同精神病理学水平的群体分别进行了考察。对早期不良照料的回忆与关系不佳、结婚年龄较低、婚姻质量差以及首次婚姻离异有关。有迹象表明，对婚姻伴侣早期不良照料的回忆所产生的影响会累加。
