Parental Stress and Children's Social and Behavioral Outcomes: The Role of Abuse Potential over Time
Parental Stress and Children's Social and Behavioral Outcomes: The Role of Abuse Potential over Time
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DOI：
10.1007/s10826-017-0822-5
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发表时间：
2017-11-01
影响因子：
2.1
通讯作者：
Moreland, Angela D.
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作者：
Crum, Kathleen I.;Moreland, Angela D.
父母压力是一个公认的风险因素，对儿童的不良后果，包括发展的侵略性，外化行为问题，焦虑，以及妥协的情绪应对，受损的社会认知，减少治疗反应。虐待潜力代表了父母压力可能影响儿童社会能力和行为的机制;证据将父母压力与虐待潜力联系起来，并将虐待潜力与一系列负面的儿童社会能力和行为结果联系起来。目前的研究评估了随着时间的推移，父母压力，虐待潜力和儿童社会和行为结果之间的关系。2-6岁儿童的父母（N = 610，44%的女孩）报告了感知父母的压力和对虐待和忽视的态度，以及儿童的社会能力和行为问题，之前和之后，以社区为基础的干预。父母的压力，虐待的可能性，和儿童的社会和行为结果的变化进行了研究，同时控制干预效果和人口统计学变量。随着时间的推移，父母的压力预测儿童的社会能力，焦虑/退缩，愤怒/侵略，而压力和焦虑/退缩，压力和社会能力之间的联系，介导的虐待儿童的潜力，压力和愤怒/侵略之间的联系没有介导的虐待儿童的潜力。研究结果表明，虐待的可能性是一种机制，通过这种机制，父母的压力和儿童的社会和行为结果是联系在一起的。此外，筛查儿童社会能力缺陷可以识别有虐待风险的儿童以及需要服务以减轻压力的父母。
Parental stress is a well-established risk factor for adverse child outcomes, including the development of aggression, externalizing behavior problems, and anxiety, as well as compromised emotional coping, impaired social cognition, and diminished treatment response. Abuse potential represents a mechanism by which parental stress may impact child social competence and behavior; evidence links parental stress to abuse potential, and abuse potential to a range of negative child social competence and behavioral outcomes. The current study assessed relationships between parental stress, abuse potential, and child social and behavioral outcomes over time. Parents of children ages 2-6 years (N = 610, 44% girls) reported on perceived parental stress and attitudes towards abuse and neglect, as well as child social competence and behavior problems, before and after a caregiver-directed, community-based intervention. Changes in parental stress, abuse potential, and child social and behavioral outcomes were examined using panel analyses, while controlling for intervention effects and demographic variables. Parental stress predicted child social competence, anxiety/withdrawal, and anger/aggression over time; while the links between stress and anxiety/withdrawal, and stress and social competence, were mediated by child abuse potential, the link between stress and anger/aggression was not mediated by child abuse potential. Findings suggest that abuse potential represents a mechanism by which parental stress and child social and behavioral outcomes are linked. Further, screening for child social competence deficits may identify children at risk for abuse, as well as parents in need of services to reduce stress.