Children's emotional and behavioural well-being and the family environment: findings from the Health Survey for England
Children's emotional and behavioural well-being and the family environment: findings from the Health Survey for England
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DOI：
10.1016/s0277-9536(00)00346-4
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发表时间：
2001-08-01
影响因子：
5.4
通讯作者：
Goodman, R
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作者：
McMunn, AM;Nazroo, JY;Goodman, R
最近家庭结构多样化的趋势对关于家庭的传统社会理论提出了重大挑战。然而，这场关键的辩论却没有。对政策讨论的影响有很大的影响，不同的家庭结构对儿童的心理健康，其中双亲家庭被认为是理想的。1997年，英格兰年度健康调查的重点是儿童和青年人的健康。采用自我完成问卷，对5705名4-15岁儿童的父母进行了心理健康状况的问卷调查。采用多因素Logistic回归模型，探讨了家庭结构、社会经济指标、父母工作状况和父母心理状况对儿童心理健康的影响，结果表明，单亲母亲子女的心理问题是社会经济影响的结果，当考虑到福利待遇、住房使用权和母亲受教育程度等因素时，单亲母亲子女的心理问题消失。然而，社会经济因素并不能解释继父母子女心理发病率较高的原因，也不能解释父母和子女心理发病率之间的密切关系。(C)2001爱思唯尔科技有限公司版权所有。
Recent trends towards diversity in Family structure have posed important challenges for traditional social theories on the family. This critical debate has not, however. had much influence on policy discussions of the impact of diverse Family structures on children's psychological health, where two-parent families are presumed ideal. In 1997, the annual Health Survey for England focussed on the health of children and young people. The Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ), used to assess children's psychological health, was administered to the parents of 5705 children aged 4-15 using a self-completion booklet. The effect of family structure, socio-economic indicators, parental working status and parental psychological status on children-a psychological health was explored using multi-variate logistic regression models.Findings indicated that the high prevalence of psychological morbidity among children of lone-mothers was a consequence of socio-economic effects, disappearing when benefits receipt, housing tenure and maternal education were taken into account. Socio-economic factors did not, however, explain the higher proportion of psychological morbidity among children with stepparents, or the strong relationship between parents' and children's psychological morbidity. (C) 2001 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.