Russek L G, Schwartz G E
Harvard University Student Health Service, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
Psychosom Med. 1997 Mar-Apr;59(2):144-9. doi: 10.1097/00006842-199703000-00005.
This study examined how the perception of parental caring, obtained from undergraduates, relates to subsequent health over the ensuing 35 years.
In the early 1950s, initial ratings of parental caring were obtained from a sample of healthy, Harvard undergraduate men who participated in the Harvard Mastery of Stress Study. In a 35 year prospective, follow-up investigation, detailed medical and psychological histories and medical records were obtained.
Subjects identified in midlife as suffering from illnesses such as coronary artery disease, hypertension, duodenal ulcer, and alcoholism, gave their parents significantly lower ratings (p < .00003) on perceived parental caring items (loving, just, fair, hardworking, clever, strong) while in college. This effect was independent of subject's age, family history of illness, smoking behavior, the death and/or divorce of parents, and marital history of subjects. Furthermore, 87% of subjects who rated both their mothers and fathers low in parental caring had diagnosed diseases in midlife, whereas only 25% of subjects who rated both their mothers and fathers high in parental caring had diagnosed diseases in midlife.
Since parents are usually the most meaningful source of social support for much of early life, the perception of parental caring, and parental loving itself, may have important regulatory and predictive effects on biological and psychological health and illness.
本研究探讨了从本科生那里获得的对父母关爱的认知与随后35年健康状况之间的关系。
在20世纪50年代早期，从参与哈佛压力应对研究的健康哈佛本科男生样本中获取了对父母关爱的初始评分。在一项为期35年的前瞻性随访调查中，获取了详细的医学和心理病史以及医疗记录。
在中年时被诊断患有诸如冠状动脉疾病、高血压、十二指肠溃疡和酗酒等疾病的受试者，在大学期间对父母关爱项目（慈爱、公正、公平、勤劳、聪明、强壮）的评分显著低于其他人（p <.00003）。这种影响与受试者的年龄、家族病史、吸烟行为、父母的死亡和/或离婚以及受试者的婚姻史无关。此外，在父母关爱方面给父母双方评分都低的受试者中，87%在中年时被诊断患有疾病，而在父母关爱方面给父母双方评分都高的受试者中，只有25%在中年时被诊断患有疾病。
由于在早年生活的大部分时间里，父母通常是社会支持最有意义的来源，对父母关爱的认知以及父母的爱本身，可能对生物和心理健康及疾病具有重要的调节和预测作用。
