Life Stress and Unmarried, Black Fathers' Attitudes Toward Attachment: The Moderating Role of Shift-and-Persist.
Life Stress and Unmarried, Black Fathers' Attitudes Toward Attachment: The Moderating Role of Shift-and-Persist.
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生活压力与未婚黑人父亲对依恋的态度：转变和坚持的调节作用。
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10.1037/men0000446
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2024
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Brown,GeoffreyL
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Thomas,Clare;Collins,ChristopherC;Aytuglu,Alp;Brown,GeoffreyL
未婚的黑人父亲的积极参与有助于儿童从婴儿期早期开始的健康和发展。对于许多男性来说，为人父母的准备工作在孩子出生前就开始了，因为准父亲会制定能够促进安全的婴儿与父亲依恋关系的育儿态度。这项研究考察了生活压力的各个方面，作为产前对依恋态度的预测因素——准父亲在多大程度上支持促进婴儿的依恋安全感。此外，我们还考虑了转变并坚持的认知策略（一种专注于转向积极焦点和未来导向的心理弹性因素）是否调节了这些关联。研究人员在其伴侣怀孕的中期或晚期期间招募了 121 名即将生孩子的未婚黑人男性样本。准爸爸报告了童年创伤、最近的负面生活经历和抑郁症状。父亲们还完成了对转变和坚持策略的调查评估，以及新开发的评估依恋态度的量表。抑郁症状和消极生活事件与依恋态度直接呈正相关。对依恋的积极态度与消极生活事件和抑郁症状之间的关联受到父亲转变和坚持的能力的调节。具体来说，当转变和坚持较低时，生活压力的各个方面通常与对依恋的态度无关，但当转变和坚持较高时，与对依恋的更积极态度相关。初步研究结果表明，对于面临中等生活压力的准爸爸来说，转变并坚持策略具有潜在的强化作用。
Unmarried, Black fathers’ positive engagement contributes to children’s health and development beginning in early infancy. For many men, preparations for parenthood begin before birth as expectant fathers formulate parenting attitudes that can promote secure infant–father attachment relationships. This study examined aspects of life stress as predictors of prenatal attitudes toward attachment—the extent to which expectant fathers endorsed promoting attachment security in their infants. Further, we considered whether shift-and-persist cognitive strategies—a psychological resilience factor focused on shifting to positive focus and future-orientation—moderated these associations. A sample of 121 unmarried, Black men expecting the birth of a child were recruited during the second or third trimester of their partner’s pregnancy. Expectant fathers reported on childhood trauma, recent negative life experiences, and depressive symptomology. Fathers also completed a survey assessment of shift-and-persist strategies, as well as a newly developed scale assessing attitudes toward attachment. Depressive symptoms and negative life events were directly, positively related to attitudes toward attachment. The association between positive attitudes toward attachment and both negative life events and depressive symptomology was moderated by fathers’ ability to shift-and-persist. Specifically, aspects of life stress were generally unrelated to attitudes toward attachment when shift-and-persist was low, but related to more positive attitudes toward attachment when shift-and-persist was high. Preliminary findings point to the potential steeling effects of shift-and-persist strategies for expectant fathers facing moderate levels of life stress.