CHILD REARING ACROSS GENERATIONS

描述（改编自研究者摘要）：本项目将 研究父母对三岁孩子的养育， 从3岁起，我就参加了一项纵向研究， 缤客 建议测试有关条件的假设 在这种情况下，父母的养育方式会代代相传。 的研究 依赖于童年经历的回顾性报告和/或依赖于 根据预先选择的高风险受试者的样品（例如，虐待儿童者， 青少年母亲，机构抚养的女孩）表明， 婚姻关系保护母亲不重复自己的孩子 她在成长过程中受到的虐待 通过研究大约 来自大约1000名新西兰人的完整队列中的500名家长 20年前出生于达尼丁的他，这项研究将确定 支持性婚姻的作用是缓冲，当预期的信息 在一个非选定的，有代表性的， sample. 通过利用收集的育儿和家庭气候数据， 成年受试者为学龄前、儿童中期和 在青春期早期，观察他们和他们三岁的奥尔兹， 这项研究将确定家庭是否会影响到任何这些 发育时期更能预测成年期的养育方式; 一个好的婚姻是否会破坏 有问题的父母;以及这些过程是否类似于 母亲和父亲。 预计对这些问题的深入了解 这项研究提供的信息将证明对那些寻求预防的人有用。 有问题的父母培养或促进称职的父母。

DESCRIPTION (Adapted from Investigator's Abstract): This project will study the parenting of mothers and fathers of three year olds who have been part of a longitudinal study, since the age of 3, in Dunedin, New Zealand. It is proposed to test hypotheses regarding the conditions under which parenting is transmitted across generations. Studies that rely upon retrospective reports of childhood experience and/or that rely upon pre-selected samples of high-risk subjects (e.g., child abusers, teenage mothers, institutionally-reared girls) indicate that a supportive marital relationship protects a mother from repeating on her own child the mistreatment she experienced growing up. By studying approximately 500 parents from a complete cohort of approximately 1000 New Zealanders born in Dunedin two decades ago, the study will determine whether a supportive marriage functions as a buffer when prospective information on childhood experience is examined in a nonselected, representative sample. By drawing upon parenting and family climate data gathered when the adult subjects were of preschool age, in middle childhood and in early adolescence, and observing them with their own three year olds, the study will determine whether family influences during any of these developmental epochs are more predictive of parenting during adulthood; whether a good marriage disrupts the interdegenerational transmission of problematic parenting; and whether such processes operate similarly for mothers and for fathers. It is expected that insight into these issues afforded by this research will prove useful to those seeking to prevent problematic parenting from developing or promote competent parenting.