Behavioral competence among mothers of infants in the first year: the mediational role of maternal self-efficacy.
Behavioral competence among mothers of infants in the first year: the mediational role of maternal self-efficacy.
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一岁婴儿母亲的行为能力：母亲自我效能感的中介作用。
作者：
D. Teti;D. Gelfand
本研究检验了母亲的自我效能信念对诸如抑郁、对婴儿气质困难的感知和社会婚姻支持等变量对养育行为的影响的观点。受试者是48名临床抑郁症和38名非抑郁症的母亲与他们的3-13个月大的婴儿（M = 7.35个月）的互动观察。正如预测的那样，母亲自我效能感的信念显着相关的母亲的行为能力独立的其他变量的影响。当自我效能的影响被控制后，亲职能力不再与社会婚姻支持或母亲忧郁有显著相关。此外，母亲自我效能感与婴儿困难的看法后，控制家庭人口统计变量显着相关。这些结果表明，母亲的自我效能感调解母亲的能力和其他心理社会变量之间的关系，并可能在决定父母的行为和婴儿的心理社会风险发挥至关重要的作用。
This study tests the idea that mothers' self-efficacy beliefs mediate the effects on parenting behavior of variables such as depression, perceptions of infant temperamental difficulty, and social-marital supports. Subjects were 48 clinically depressed and 38 nondepressed mothers observed in interaction with their 3-13-month-old infants (M = 7.35 months). As predicted, maternal self-efficacy beliefs related significantly to maternal behavioral competence independent of the effects of other variables. When the effects of self-efficacy were controlled, parenting competence no longer related significantly to social-marital supports or maternal depression. In addition, maternal self-efficacy correlated significantly with perceptions of infant difficulty after controlling for family demographic variables. These results suggest that maternal self-efficacy mediates relations between maternal competence and other psychosocial variables and may play a crucial role in determining parenting behavior and infant psychosocial risk.