青春期發育時機對親子關係之影響研究

The Impact of Pubertal Timing to Parent-Child Relationships

蔡旻光(Min-Kuang Tsai)

指導教授 ： 李蘭

國立臺灣大學/公共衛生學院/衛生政策與管理研究所/碩士(2006年)

https://doi.org/10.6342/NTU.2006.00680

摘要

為探討青春期發育時機對親子關係的影響，本研究以兒童及青少年行為之長期發展研究(簡稱CABLE)計畫已建立之資料庫中的部分變項，進行次級資料分析。本研究選取同一群研究樣本於國一(2004)及國二(2005)兩年皆有填答問卷者的資料做分析，共2080份。根據研究樣本自陳於國二時第二性徵的成熟度，將其歸入「早發育」、「發育中」或「晚發育」三組中的一組。親子關係則以「父母支持」、「親子衝突」和「親子互動」為指標。利用多變項分析，控制其他影響因素以釐清青春期發育時機對親子關係的影響。結果發現，背景因素中的「父母管教方式」為正向之鼔勵、關懷或協助時，學生自陳之父母支持及親子互動較高，親子衝突較少；反之，管教方式若為負向的心理控制時，學生自陳之父母支持及親子互動較低，親子衝突較高。在控制其他因素的影響之後，在男生而言，屬「發育中」及「早發育」者，其親子互動程度顯著低於「晚發育」者；在女生而言，「早發育」者的親子互動程度顯著低於「發育中」及「晚發育」者。至於親子關係的另兩項指標，即「父母支持」與「親子衝突」，皆未受到青春期發育時機的影響。根據研究結果，建議父母應多關心子女在青春期的生理變化，特別是和同年齡者比較時，屬於「早發育」的孩子，並且多與他們互動。同時，父母對青春期子女的管教應採正向的鼔勵、關懷及協助。

關鍵字

青少年 ； 青春期發育時機 ； 親子關係

並列摘要

Impact of pubertal timing on parent-child relationships was examined in this analysis. The longitudinal data from the “Children and Adolescent Behaviors in Long-term Evolution project,” known as CABLE, was analyzed in this study. The total 2,080 students who were seventh and eighth grade sampled in 2004 and 2005 survey were included. Pubertal timing indicates whether an individual’s pubertal development occurs earlier than, at the same time as, or later than that of his or her same-gender, same-grade peers. The students were divided into three groups: “early-maturing,” “on-time,” or “late-maturing.” The parent-child relationship is considered including parental support, parent-child conflict, and parent-child interaction. Multiple regression analyses were performed to test whether the pubertal timing influences parent-child relationship.
The result shows that students have higher level of parental support, parent-child interaction, and less parent-child conflict if they were exposed to positive parenting style, such as encouragement, warmth, and assistance. On the contrary, students have lower level of parental support, parent-child interaction, and more parent-child conflict if their parenting style was psychological control. Adjusting for other influential factors, on-time and early-maturing boys have lower level of parent-child interaction than late-maturing boys; similarly, early-maturing girls have lower level of parent-child interaction than on-time and late-maturing girls. However, pubertal timing does not significantly impact on level of parental support or parent-child conflict. The results suggest that parents should pay more attention to their children, especially for the children whose pubertal development occurs earlier than that of his or her same-gender, same-age peers. Parent-child interaction should also be strengthened when their children were in puberty. Moreover, parents should adopt positive parenting style, such as encouragement, warmth, and assistance.

並列關鍵字

adolescents ； pubertal timing ； parent-child relationships

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