Environmental adversity and children's early trajectories of problem behavior: The role of harsh parental discipline.
Environmental adversity and children's early trajectories of problem behavior: The role of harsh parental discipline.
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10.1037/fam0000258
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2017-03
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Midouhas E
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Flouri E;Midouhas E
这项研究旨在考察严厉的父母管教在调节和调节环境逆境(家庭、社会经济劣势和不良生活事件)对儿童早期到中期情绪和行为问题的影响方面所起的作用。样本包括16,916名儿童(48%为女性，24%为非白人)，这些儿童来自英国的S千禧年队列研究。我们使用增长曲线模型分析了在3、5和7岁时测量的行为、多动和情绪问题的轨迹。在这些年龄段，严格的父母管教是通过父母报告的项目来衡量的，这些项目包括使用身体和语言管教策略的频率，如扇孩子耳光，对他们大喊大叫，以及对孩子进行“斥责”。正如预期的那样，家庭的社会经济劣势和不良生活事件与情绪和行为问题显著相关。严厉的父母管教与孩子的问题轨迹有关，它缓和了环境风险对这些轨迹的影响，但没有解释。在整个研究期间，经历严厉父母管教的高危儿童的行为问题和多动症的水平最高。此外，严厉的父母管教预测，随着时间的推移，高危儿童的情绪症状会增加，这在经历低水平严厉父母管教的同龄人中看不到。然而，随着时间的推移，低风险家庭的儿童也受到父母严厉管教的负面影响。总而言之，严厉的父母管教预测了高风险和低风险儿童的情绪和行为问题，并缓和了家庭贫困和逆境对这些问题的影响。
This study was performed to examine the role of harsh parental discipline in mediating and moderating the effects of environmental adversity (family socioeconomic disadvantage and adverse life events) on emotional and behavioral problems across early-to-middle childhood. The sample included 16,916 children (48% female; 24% non-White) from the U.K.’s Millennium Cohort Study. We analyzed trajectories of conduct, hyperactivity, and emotional problems, measured at ages 3, 5, and 7 years, using growth curve models. Harsh parental discipline was measured at these ages with parent-reported items on the frequency of using the physical and verbal discipline tactics of smacking, shouting at, and “telling off” the child. As expected, family socioeconomic disadvantage and adverse life events were significantly associated with emotional and behavioral problems. Harsh parental discipline was related to children’s trajectories of problems, and it moderated, but did not explain, the effect of environmental risk on these trajectories. High-risk children experiencing harsh parental discipline had the highest levels of conduct problems and hyperactivity across the study period. In addition, harsh parental discipline predicted an increase in emotional symptoms over time in high-risk children, unseen in their counterparts experiencing low levels of harsh parental discipline. However, children in low-risk families were also negatively affected by harsh parental discipline concurrently and over time. In conclusion, harsh parental discipline predicted emotional and behavioral problems in high- and low-risk children and moderated the effects of family poverty and adversity on these problems.