Maternal executive functioning as a mechanism in the intergenerational transmission of parenting: Preliminary evidence.
Maternal executive functioning as a mechanism in the intergenerational transmission of parenting: Preliminary evidence.
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10.1037/fam0000264
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2017-02
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Mayes LC
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Bridgett DJ;Kanya MJ;Rutherford HJ;Mayes LC
包括实验动物模型在内的多种研究最近一致表明，执行功能（EF）可能是养育行为代代相传的一种机制。在当前的研究中，我们通过考察母婴互动过程中母亲 EF 与养育行为之间的关系，以及母亲 EF 在养育行为代际传递中的作用，对这一概念进行了实证检验。母婴二人组 (N=150) 参与了一项纵向研究。对母亲进行 EF（工作记忆和抑制）测量，报告她们从父母（即婴儿的外祖父母）那里得到的养育方式，并观察与 8 个月大婴儿的互动。 SEM 研究结果表明，母亲从父母那里得到的消极养育方式与母亲 EF 较差显着相关，而母亲 EF 较差则与随后对自己的婴儿采取更消极的养育方式显着相关。通过母亲 EF，观察到母亲报告的她在成长过程中接受的消极养育经历与她自己对消极养育做法的使用之间存在显着的间接影响。我们的发现有两个贡献。首先，我们对现有的工作进行了补充，该工作主要考虑了父母 EF 与与年龄较大的孩子互动时的养育行为之间的关系，表明母亲 EF 通过母亲的养育行为影响儿童，从生命的早期就开始。其次，我们提供了 EF 在教养代际传递中的作用的关键证据。讨论了这些发现的其他含义以及未来的重要方向。
Multiple lines of inquiry, including experimental animal models, have recently converged to suggest that executive functioning (EF) may be one mechanism by which parenting behavior is transmitted across generations. In the current investigation, we empirically test this notion by examining relations between maternal EF and parenting behaviors during mother-infant interactions, and by examining the role of maternal EF in the intergenerational transmission of parenting behavior. Mother-infant dyads (N=150) in a longitudinal study participated. Mothers were administered measures of EF (working memory and inhibition), reported on the parenting they received from their parents (i.e., the infants’ maternal grandparents), and were observed interacting with their 8-month-old infants. SEM findings indicated that the negative parenting mothers received from their own parents was significantly related to poorer maternal EF, and that poorer maternal EF was significantly related to subsequent engagement in more negative parenting practices with their own infant. A significant indirect effect, through maternal EF, was observed between maternal report of her experiences of negative parenting received while growing up and her own use of negative parenting practices. Our findings make two contributions. First, we add to existing work that has primarily considered relations between parent EF and parenting behavior while interacting with older children by showing that maternal EF affects children, via maternal parenting behavior, beginning very early in life. Second, we provide key evidence of the role of EF in the intergenerational transmission of parenting. Additional implications of these findings, as well as important future directions, are discussed.