儿童母亲拒绝与同伴拒绝的关系--一个有中介的调节模型

The Relationship between Maternal Rejection and Peer Rejection: A Mediated Moderation Model

选取393名儿童及其家长进行问卷调查,考察儿童的母亲拒绝、家庭环境纷杂度、问题行为和同伴拒绝之间的关系。结果发现:(1)在控制了性别、年级、家庭社会经济地位后,母亲拒绝对儿童的同伴拒绝有显著正向预测作用;(2)家庭环境纷杂度调节了母亲拒绝与同伴拒绝之间的关系;(3)儿童外化问题行为在家庭环境纷杂度对母亲拒绝和同伴拒绝关系的调节效应中起完全中介作用。

Previous research shows that children peer rejection is influenced by parenting. Maternal rejection is defined as mothers who ignore or neglect children, refuse or abuse children, and vehemently deny children’s behaviors. However, little is known about the relationship between maternal rejection and peer rejection up to present. Thus, the first aim of this study is to examine the relationship between maternal rejection and peer rejection. Moreover, less is known about the mechanisms underlying the associations between maternal rejection and peer rejection. Peer rejection is influenced by many factors. Household chaos is an important aspect of the family dynamic environment, which would interfere with the implementation of optimal parenting behaviors and might affect the children’s development adaptation outcomes. Previous studies showed that the degree of inconsistency in the family environment was an important background which could affect parent-child relationships. Therefore, the current study aims to examine the moderating effects of household chaos in the associations between maternal rejection and peer rejection. In addition, children have subjective initiative, and children’s own subject variables might mediate the moderating effect of household chaos. We further tested whether the moderating effect of household chaos might be mediated by child problem behaviors.In this study, 393 children(198 girls, 195 boys) with the mean age of 11.32±0.88 and their parents participated in our research. Children finished a self-reported Short-form Egna Minnen av Barndoms Uppfostran for Chinese(S-EMBU-C) questionnaire and obtained peer rejection through peer nomination. Parents finished Confusion, Hubbub and Order Scale(CHAOS), Child Behavior Check List(CBCL) and Family Socioeconomic Status Scale(SES). This study examined the associations between maternal rejection, household chaos, child problem behaviors and peer rejection. Meanwhile, hierarchical regression analyses were used to examine the moderating role of household chaos and the mediating role of child problem behaviors in the relationship between maternal rejection and peer rejection. Our findings were as follows:(1) After controlling gender, grade, family socioeconomic status(SES), maternal rejection could significantly predict peer rejection;(2) Household chaos acted as a moderator between the relationship of maternal rejection and peer rejection, children lived in high household chaos showed significantly higher peer rejection relative to children lived in low household chaos, and ability of maternal rejection to predict peer rejection was weakened for children under low household chaos;(3) Additionally, the moderating effect of household chaos was completely mediated by child externalizing problem behavior. In conclusion, household chaos would moderate the associations between maternal rejection and peer rejection. Furthermore, this moderating mechanism was mediated by child externalizing problem behavior. Our findings integrated the mediating and moderating models providing a more comprehensive interpretation to understand how and when maternal rejection impacted peer rejection. Our findings also provided a theoretical and empirical basis for others to study the complicated relationship between maternal rejection and peer rejection. In addition, results from this study highlighted the importance of maternal negative behaviors and family physical environment simultaneously, which broadened our understanding of the processes between parenting behavior and peer relationship.