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【研究成果】中心吳佳芸博士運用雙城計畫—大臺北地區兒童身心健康調查之分析成果發表於Vulnerable Children and Youth Studies 國際期刊
2025-09-19
作者：吳佳芸
題目：The roles of parental psychological symptoms and social support in child behaviors: a representative survey from Taiwan
摘要：
To provide a more comprehensive understanding of the relationship between parental psychological symptoms and child behaviors, this study included additional symptoms commonly reported in community samples – such as hostility, feelings of inferiority, and insomnia – alongside depression and anxiety, to better understand how these symptoms impact child behaviors.
Using probability proportional to size sampling, we recruited participants from a pool of 6,195 parents of children aged 6–12 years to investigate the associations among parental psychological symptoms, social support, and child behaviors. In addition, we compared child behaviors across parents with varying levels of psychological
symptoms (healthy, mild, moderate, and severe). Both parental psychological symptoms and social support were found to predict children’s problem behaviors, even after adjusting for covariates.
Furthermore, our findings revealed differences in the behaviors of children with mentally healthy parents compared to those whose parents exhibited psychological symptoms, including mild ones. Our results underscore the importance of parental psychological symptoms and social support in relation to children’s problem behaviors. Understanding these associations can help mental health practitioners provide better services to parents in need, potentially reducing problem behaviors in children.
主要發現：
家長的心理健康問題，皆會顯著影響孩子的問題行為。我們的研究發現，即使是輕度的心理症狀，也與孩子的行為問題存在關聯。與心理健康的家長相比，具有心理健康問題的家長，其子女更容易出現行為問題。本研究凸顯了家長心理健康與社會支持的重要性，並提醒專業人員在介入時需將其納入考量，以協助降低兒童的問題行為。