Henly J R
University of California, Los Angeles, USA.
Am J Community Psychol. 1997 Oct;25(5):629-55. doi: 10.1023/a:1024634917076.
The importance of social support to the well-being of adolescent parents is a frequently discussed topic in the teen parenting literature. However, the meaning and conceptualization of social support varies across study and the heterogeneity within the teen parent population is often overlooked. In an effort to understand its role more precisely, the present study defined support both in terms of its structural and provision components, and examined the association of these components with both perceived psychological and behavioral measures of maternal well-being for a sample of white and African American teen mothers. Specifically, the relative contribution of household structure and provisional social support to the well-being of a sample of 107 African American and 146 white teen mothers was measured respectively. Results indicate great variability in the structural and provisional support adolescent mothers receive, regardless of race. Independent of other effects, provisional supports are more strongly associated with maternal well-being than is family structure. Further, the impact of these different types of support varies by race.
社会支持对青少年父母幸福感的重要性是青少年育儿文献中经常讨论的话题。然而，社会支持的含义和概念在不同研究中有所不同，青少年父母群体内部的异质性常常被忽视。为了更准确地理解其作用，本研究从结构和提供两个方面定义了支持，并针对白人和非裔美国青少年母亲样本，研究了这些方面与母亲幸福感的感知心理和行为指标之间的关联。具体而言，分别测量了家庭结构和临时社会支持对107名非裔美国青少年母亲和146名白人青少年母亲样本幸福感的相对贡献。结果表明，无论种族如何，青少年母亲获得的结构支持和临时支持存在很大差异。在不考虑其他影响的情况下，临时支持与母亲幸福感的关联比家庭结构更强。此外，这些不同类型支持的影响因种族而异。
