母亲抑郁与幼儿社会适应:母亲的悲伤反应与亲子冲突的中介作用

The Relation between Maternal Depression and Children's Social Adjustment:The Mediating Roles of Maternal Distress Reaction and Parent-child Conflict

本研究以上海市两所幼儿园的205名3~6岁幼儿为被试,探讨了母亲抑郁与幼儿社会适应的关系,并考察了母亲对幼儿消极情绪的悲伤反应和亲子冲突在其中的中介作用。结果发现:(1)母亲抑郁可以显著正向预测幼儿情绪问题,显著负向预测幼儿亲社会行为;(2)母亲的悲伤反应在母亲抑郁与品行问题之间起完全中介作用;亲子冲突在母亲抑郁与幼儿多动分心和品行问题之间起完全中介作用,在母亲抑郁与情绪问题之间起部分中介作用;(3)母亲的悲伤反应和亲子冲突在母亲抑郁与幼儿多动分心、情绪问题以及品行问题之间起链式中介作用,但效应量较低。本研究结果进一步揭示了母亲抑郁对幼儿社会适应影响的内在机制。

To explore the relationship between maternal depression and children's social adjustment,as well as the serial mediating effect of maternal distress reaction to children's negative emotions and parent-child conflict,the present study randomly selected 205 preschoolers from two kindergartens in Shanghai.The results were as follows:(1)Maternal depression significantly and positively predicted children's emotional symptoms,and significantly and negatively predicted prosocial behaviors;(2)Maternal distress reaction played a fully mediating effect on the relationship between maternal depression and children's conduct problems;parent-child conflict had a fully mediating effect on the relationship between maternal depression and children's hyperactive distraction and conduct problems,and had a partial mediating effect on the relation between maternal depression and emotional symptoms;(3)Maternal distress reaction and parent-child conflict had a serial mediating effect in the relation between maternal depression and children's hyperactive distractibility,emotional symptoms,and conduct problems.The results further revealed the internal mechanisms of the links between maternal depression and young children's social adjustment.