检查将经济不安全与低收入夫妇之间的父母间冲突联系在一起的机制
Joyce Y Lee1, Shawna J Lee2, Brenda L Volling3
1College of Social Work, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH.
Family relations
|June 22, 2023
概括
经济困难,特别是物质困难,会影响父母的心理健康,并导致破坏性的父母间冲突,特别是通过父亲的抑郁症状. 解决物质需求对于家庭福祉至关重要.
科学领域:
- 家庭研究 家庭研究
- 心理学 心理学 心理学
- 社会学 社会学 社会学
背景情况:
- 贫困研究往往侧重于收入,但物质困难 (难以满足日常需求) 是美国家庭普遍存在的问题.
- 物质困难包括住房,公用事业,食品和医疗保健方面的挑战,影响家庭的运作.
研究的目的:
- 检查经济不安全,包括收入贫困和物质困难,如何影响父母的心理健康和夫妇关系的运作.
- 测试家庭压力模型中的机制,将经济不安全与家庭福祉联系起来.
主要方法:
- 利用了"建设强大家庭"项目的数据,采用了多样化,低收入样本 (N = 2,794).
- 采用贝叶斯调解分析来研究经济不安全,父母心理健康和父母间冲突之间的关系.
- 收入贫困和物质困难作为经济不安全的不同组成部分.
主要成果:
- 与收入贫困不同的是,物质困难与母亲和父亲的抑郁症状增加有关.
- 父亲的抑郁症状与更高水平的破坏性父母间冲突有关.
- 调解分析表明,物质困难影响了破坏性的父母间冲突,主要是通过父亲的抑郁症状.
结论:
- 满足日常物质需求的经济压力会加快父母的心理健康问题,这反过来又会导致破坏性的父母间冲突,特别是通过父亲的抑郁症状.
- 解决物质困难的干预措施对于改善父母心理健康和减少夫妇中破坏性冲突至关重要.
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