Maternal Control, Cognitive Style, and Childhood Anxiety: A Test of a Theoretical Model in a Multi-Ethnic Sample
Maternal Control, Cognitive Style, and Childhood Anxiety: A Test of a Theoretical Model in a Multi-Ethnic Sample
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DOI：
10.1037/a0020388
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发表时间：
2010-08-01
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2.7
通讯作者：
Corey, David M.
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作者：
Creveling, C. Christiane;Varela, R. Enrique;Corey, David M.
本研究检验了控制型养育方式、消极认知方式、儿童焦虑和种族/民族之间相互关系的理论模型。该模型表明，一般来说，认知风格介导了母亲控制和儿童焦虑之间的关系，但这种关联可能因种族而异。非裔美国人（n = 235）、拉丁美洲人（n = 56）和欧裔美国人（n = 136）的儿童完成了他们的焦虑、反映自主性/表现受损的认知图式、断开/拒绝域和母亲控制的测量。研究结果表明，只有欧美儿童的分离/排斥负性认知风格在感知母性控制对儿童焦虑的影响中起中介作用。在三个种族中，母亲控制与自主性/表现认知风格受损有关，仅在欧洲、美洲和拉丁美洲群体中与断开/拒绝认知风格相关。在拉丁美洲群体中，母性控制通过分离/拒绝认知方式对焦虑有间接影响。结果讨论了该模型如何将当前的焦虑问题理论扩展到非裔美国人和拉丁美洲儿童，并指出在养育实践和认知风格与儿童焦虑水平的关系中可能存在显著的文化差异。
This study tested a theoretical model of the interrelations among controlling parenting, negative cognitive styles, children's anxiety, and race/ethnicity. The model suggests that, in general, cognitive style mediates the relation between maternal control and child anxiety but that the set of associations may differ as a function of ethnicity. African American (n = 235), Latin American (n = 56), and European American (n = 136) children completed measures of their anxiety, cognitive schemas reflecting impaired autonomy/performance and disconnection/rejection domains, and maternal control. Results indicated that a disconnection/rejection negative cognitive style mediated the effect of perceived maternal control on childhood anxiety only for the European American group. Maternal control was associated with the impaired autonomy/performance cognitive style for each of the three ethnic groups and with a disconnection/rejection cognitive style only for the European American and Latin American groups. Maternal control had an indirect effect on anxiety through the disconnection/rejection cognitive style for the Latin American group. The results are discussed in terms of how the model presented extends current theories of anxiety problems to African American and Latin American children by noting that significant cultural variations may exist in how parenting practices and cognitive styles relate to children's anxiety levels.