Egeland B, Susman-Stillman A
Institute of Child Development, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis 55455, USA.
Child Abuse Negl. 1996 Nov;20(11):1123-32. doi: 10.1016/0145-2134(96)00102-0.
To test the hypothesis that dissociative process is the mechanism that accounts for the transmission of maltreatment across generations, a group of mothers who were abused and maltreated their children were compared to a group of mothers who broke the cycle of abuse. Mothers who were abused and are abusing their children were rated higher on idealization, inconsistency, and escapism in their description of their childhood and they scored higher on the Dissociative Experience Scale compared to mothers who broke the cycle. Mothers who were abused and abused their children recalled the care they received as children in a fragmented and disconnected fashion whereas those who broke the cycle integrated their abusive experience into a more coherent view of self. Even after partialing out the effects of IQ, large differences were found indicating that dissociative process plays a part in the transmission of maltreatment across generations. Possible reasons why some maltreated individuals coped with the trauma by dissociating and others integrate the experience were discussed.
为了检验分离过程是虐待行为跨代传递机制这一假设，将一组曾遭受虐待且虐待自己孩子的母亲与一组打破虐待循环的母亲进行了比较。曾遭受虐待且正在虐待自己孩子的母亲在描述自己的童年时，在理想化、矛盾性和逃避现实方面得分更高，与打破虐待循环的母亲相比，她们在分离体验量表上的得分也更高。曾遭受虐待且虐待自己孩子的母亲回忆起自己童年时所接受的照顾是支离破碎、缺乏连贯性的，而那些打破虐待循环的母亲则将她们的受虐经历整合为一种更连贯的自我认知。即使排除了智商的影响，仍发现存在巨大差异，这表明分离过程在虐待行为的跨代传递中起到了一定作用。文中还讨论了一些受虐个体通过分离来应对创伤而另一些个体则整合这些经历的可能原因。
