Father-child transmission of antisocial behavior: The moderating role of father's presence in the home
Father-child transmission of antisocial behavior: The moderating role of father's presence in the home
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DOI：
10.1097/chi.0b013e3181642979
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发表时间：
2008-04-01
影响因子：
13.3
通讯作者：
McGue, Matt
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作者：
Blazei, Ryan W.;Iacono, William G.;McGue, Matt
目的：证明由反社会的父亲抚养的环境效应，并测试父亲在家中的存在是否会调节父亲对孩子的反社会行为的传播。方法：一个社区样本的男性和女性11岁和17岁的双胞胎和他们的亲生父母参加明尼苏达州双胞胎家庭研究。一系列的分层线性回归模型被用来研究父亲反社会和他的孩子的外化精神病理学之间的关系，并确定是否父亲的时间花在家里调节这种关系。模型控制了孩子的性别。结果如下：父亲的反社会性和父亲的存在对儿童的外化精神病理学的一个显着的主要影响被发现：反社会的父亲所生的孩子表现出较高的外化行为的比率，和没有他们的亲生父亲在家里长大的孩子表现出更多的外化行为。这种相互作用也是显着的，父亲和孩子之间的关联是更强的反社会性时，父亲是存在的一段较长的时间的孩子的生活。此外，当父亲表现出高度的反社会性时，父亲的存在似乎对孩子的行为产生有害而非有益的影响。结论：目前的研究结果表明，反社会性从父亲到孩子的传播至少部分是环境调节。
Objective: To demonstrate an environmental effect of being raised by an antisocial father and to test whether the transmission of antisocial behavior from father to child is moderated by the father's presence in the home. Method: A community sample of male and female 11- and 17-year-old twins and their biological parents participating in the Minnesota Twin Family Study was used. A series of hierarchical linear regression models was used to examine the relationship between father antisociality and his children's externalizing psychopathology and to determine whether the father's time spent in the home moderated this relationship. Models controlled for the child's sex. Results: A significant main effect of both father's antisociality and father's presence on the children's externalizing psychopathology was found: Children born to antisocial fathers evidenced higher rates of externalizing behavior, and children raised without their biological father in the home exhibited more externalizing behaviors. The interaction was also significant such that the association between father and child antisociality was stronger when the father was present for a longer period of the child's life. Furthermore, when fathers show high levels of antisociality, fathers' presence appears to have deleterious rather than beneficial effects on child behavior. Conclusions: The present results suggest the transmission of antisociality from father to child is at least partially environmentally moderated.