Exploring household dynamics: the reciprocal effects of parent and child characteristics
Exploring household dynamics: the reciprocal effects of parent and child characteristics
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探索家庭动态：父母和孩子特征的相互影响
DOI：
10.14301/llcs.v5i1.259
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发表时间：
2014
影响因子：
0.9
通讯作者：
E. Webb
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作者：
L. Panico;L. Bécares;E. Webb
一系列新兴的文献表明，母亲的心理健康对儿童的社会情感发展有很大的影响（Cummings & Davies，1994 ;唐尼& Coyne，1990 ; Mensah & Kiernan，2010 ; Smith，2004）。这些文献往往是基于对二元关系的研究，假设母亲的心理健康对儿童的发展和福祉有影响，并将母子关系与其他家庭关系隔离开来进行研究。在临床实践中也可能是这样：虽然在治疗儿童的行为问题或其他心理症状时经常考虑家庭动力学，但在治疗父母时往往不是这样。然而，家庭动态是复杂的，其他家庭成员可能对母亲和儿童的福祉产生影响。此外，儿童的特点也会对其父母的结果产生反馈影响。虽然文献往往集中在父母的特点对儿童的结果的影响，反过来也可能发生。在本文中，我们采用了一个结构方程模型与交叉滞后效应，了解母亲的心理健康，儿童的社会情绪发展和父母关系的质量之间的相互关系。分析采用了千禧年队列研究的纵向数据，这是一项前瞻性的全国出生队列研究，研究对象是2000-2001年在英国出生的儿童。千年组群研究拥有关于家庭社会经济背景的丰富信息，并收集了关于母亲心理健康、父母关系质量和儿童社会情感发展的数据。在这项工作中，我们看看有关的数据学前年龄，一个关键的发展年龄，往往是从文献中缺失。
A burgeoning line of literature has shown there are strong effects of maternal mental health on child socio-emotional development ( Cummings & Davies, 1994 ; Downey & Coyne, 1990 ; Mensah & Kiernan, 2010 ; Smith, 2004 ). This literature is often based on the examination of dyadic relationships, where maternal mental health is hypothesised to have an effect on child development and well-being, and the mother-child relationship is examined in isolation of other household relationships. This may also be true in clinical practice: while family dynamics are often considered when treating children for behavioural problems or other psychological symptoms, this is often not the case when the parents are treated. However, household dynamics are complex, and other household members may have an effect both on the well-being of the mother and the child. Furthermore, children’s characteristics can also have a feedback effect on their parents’ outcomes. While the literature often concentrates on the effects of parents’ characteristics on child outcomes, the reverse might also occur. In this paper, we employ a structural equation model with crossed lagged effects, to understand the reciprocal relationships between the mother’s mental health, the child socio-emotional development, and the quality of the parental relationship. Analyses were conducted using longitudinal data from the Millennium Cohort Study, a prospective national birth cohort of children born in the UK in 2000-2001. The Millennium Cohort Study has a wealth of information on the socio-economic background of the household, and has collected data on the mother’s mental health, the quality of the parents’ relationship, and the children’s socio-emotional development. In this work we look at data relating to the pre-school age, a crucial developmental age which has often been missing from the literature.