Stepparents' Attachment Orientation, Parental Gatekeeping, and Stepparents' Affinity-Seeking with Stepchildren.
Affinity-Seeking
Attachment
Gatekeeping
Stepchildren
Stepparents
apego
búsqueda de afinidad
hijastros
padrastros
vigilancia
尽职
情感依恋
继子女
继父母
Journal
Family process
ISSN: 1545-5300
Titre abrégé: Fam Process
Pays: United States
ID NLM: 0400666
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
06 2020
06 2020
Historique:
pubmed:
16
4
2019
medline:
8
9
2021
entrez:
16
4
2019
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
Remarried stepfamilies are a sizable portion of American families; in a 2011 Pew Center survey, 42% of respondents reported at least one stepfamily member. Family clinicians and researchers suggest that stepparents' ability to develop close bonds with stepchildren may be critical to the well-being of couple and family relationships. Using actor-partner interdependence models to analyze dyadic data from 291 heterosexual remarried stepfamily couples, we explored factors related to stepparents' efforts to befriend their stepchildren. Specifically, we evaluated how remarried parents' gatekeeping and stepparents' perceptions of their attachment orientations were associated with their own and their spouse's perceptions of stepparents' affinity-seeking behaviors. Securely attached stepparents and stepparents with anxious attachment orientations engaged more frequently in affinity behaviors than did stepparents with avoidant attachment orientations; there was no difference between securely attached and anxious stepparents. Stepparents' reports of parents' restrictive gatekeeping were strongly and negatively associated with both stepparents' and parents' reports of stepparent affinity-seeking (actor and partner effects). Parents' reports of their own restrictive gatekeeping were also negatively (but more weakly) associated with parents' reports of stepparent affinity-seeking. Implications for families, clinicians, and relationship researchers and theorists are discussed. Las familias ensambladas con parejas que se vuelven a casar constituyen una parte considerable de las familias estadounidenses; en una encuesta del Pew de 2011, el 42% de los encuestados informaron tener por lo menos un familiar con familia ensamblada. Los especialistas en familia y los investigadores sugieren que la capacidad de los padrastros de desarrollar vínculos estrechos con los hijastros puede ser fundamental para el bienestar de las relaciones de pareja y familiares (Browning & Artlelt, 2012; Ganong, Coleman, Fine, & Martin, 1999). Mediante el uso de modelos de interdependencia actor-pareja para analizar los datos diádicos de 291 parejas heterosexuales de familias ensambladas con parejas que se volvieron a casar, analizamos los factores relacionados con los esfuerzos de los padrastros para hacerse amigos de sus hijastros. Específicamente, evaluamos cómo la vigilancia de los padres que volvieron a casarse y las percepciones de los padrastros de sus orientaciones de apego estuvieron asociados con sus propias percepciones y las de su cónyuge de las conductas de búsqueda de afinidad de los padrastros. Los padrastros con un vínculo de apego seguro y los padrastros con orientaciones de apego ansioso participaron con más frecuencia en conductas de afinidad que los padrastros con orientaciones de apego evasivo; no hubo diferencia entre los padrastros con vínculo de apego seguro y los de apego ansioso. Los informes de los padrastros de la vigilancia restrictiva de los padres estuvieron asociados estrechamente y negativamente con los informes de los padrastros y de los padres sobre la búsqueda de afinidad de los padrastros (efectos de la pareja y del actor). Los informes de los padres de su propia vigilancia restrictiva también estuvieron asociados negativamente (pero más levemente) con los informes de los padres sobre la búsqueda de afinidad de los padrastros. Se debaten las consecuencias para las familias, los médicos y los investigadores y teóricos de las relaciones. 在美国的家庭中,再婚结合在一起的重组家庭占相当大的比例。2011年皮尤调查显示,回收的问卷中有42%的人报告说家里至少有一位来自另一方原家庭的成员。家庭治疗人员和研究者表示继父或继母跟对方之前婚姻所生孩子是否有能力建立亲密关系对伴侣双方和家庭关系的福祉有很重要的作用(Browning & Artlelt, 2012; Ganong, Coleman, Fine, & Martin, 1999)。本研究使用主题-伴侣相互依赖模型对291对异性重组家庭再婚夫妇双方的数据进行分析,旨在探索和继父/继母努力建立与继子女关系时的相关因素。具体而言,我们评估了重组婚姻家庭中的亲生父母履行职责和继父母对他们的情感倾向的看法与他们本人和配偶的对寻求亲近关系行为的认知有怎样的关联性。比起那些回避亲密情感倾向的继父母,有安全情感依附的和有急于建立情感依恋关系倾向的继父母更频繁地参与到亲子行为中;这两类继父母的行为表现没有差异。继父母有关亲生父母一方的严格职守家长责任的报告和继父母自己的,亲生父母的一方关于继父母寻求亲密关系(主体和伴侣效果)的报告有很紧密的负相关。亲生父母的关于他们自己严格职守家长责任义务的报告和亲生父母的关于继父母寻求亲密关系的报告之间是负相关(不过更弱)。本研究对家庭,治疗人员,研究关系的人员和理论提出者的意义有所讨论。.
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Las familias ensambladas con parejas que se vuelven a casar constituyen una parte considerable de las familias estadounidenses; en una encuesta del Pew de 2011, el 42% de los encuestados informaron tener por lo menos un familiar con familia ensamblada. Los especialistas en familia y los investigadores sugieren que la capacidad de los padrastros de desarrollar vínculos estrechos con los hijastros puede ser fundamental para el bienestar de las relaciones de pareja y familiares (Browning & Artlelt, 2012; Ganong, Coleman, Fine, & Martin, 1999). Mediante el uso de modelos de interdependencia actor-pareja para analizar los datos diádicos de 291 parejas heterosexuales de familias ensambladas con parejas que se volvieron a casar, analizamos los factores relacionados con los esfuerzos de los padrastros para hacerse amigos de sus hijastros. Específicamente, evaluamos cómo la vigilancia de los padres que volvieron a casarse y las percepciones de los padrastros de sus orientaciones de apego estuvieron asociados con sus propias percepciones y las de su cónyuge de las conductas de búsqueda de afinidad de los padrastros. Los padrastros con un vínculo de apego seguro y los padrastros con orientaciones de apego ansioso participaron con más frecuencia en conductas de afinidad que los padrastros con orientaciones de apego evasivo; no hubo diferencia entre los padrastros con vínculo de apego seguro y los de apego ansioso. Los informes de los padrastros de la vigilancia restrictiva de los padres estuvieron asociados estrechamente y negativamente con los informes de los padrastros y de los padres sobre la búsqueda de afinidad de los padrastros (efectos de la pareja y del actor). Los informes de los padres de su propia vigilancia restrictiva también estuvieron asociados negativamente (pero más levemente) con los informes de los padres sobre la búsqueda de afinidad de los padrastros. Se debaten las consecuencias para las familias, los médicos y los investigadores y teóricos de las relaciones.
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在美国的家庭中,再婚结合在一起的重组家庭占相当大的比例。2011年皮尤调查显示,回收的问卷中有42%的人报告说家里至少有一位来自另一方原家庭的成员。家庭治疗人员和研究者表示继父或继母跟对方之前婚姻所生孩子是否有能力建立亲密关系对伴侣双方和家庭关系的福祉有很重要的作用(Browning & Artlelt, 2012; Ganong, Coleman, Fine, & Martin, 1999)。本研究使用主题-伴侣相互依赖模型对291对异性重组家庭再婚夫妇双方的数据进行分析,旨在探索和继父/继母努力建立与继子女关系时的相关因素。具体而言,我们评估了重组婚姻家庭中的亲生父母履行职责和继父母对他们的情感倾向的看法与他们本人和配偶的对寻求亲近关系行为的认知有怎样的关联性。比起那些回避亲密情感倾向的继父母,有安全情感依附的和有急于建立情感依恋关系倾向的继父母更频繁地参与到亲子行为中;这两类继父母的行为表现没有差异。继父母有关亲生父母一方的严格职守家长责任的报告和继父母自己的,亲生父母的一方关于继父母寻求亲密关系(主体和伴侣效果)的报告有很紧密的负相关。亲生父母的关于他们自己严格职守家长责任义务的报告和亲生父母的关于继父母寻求亲密关系的报告之间是负相关(不过更弱)。本研究对家庭,治疗人员,研究关系的人员和理论提出者的意义有所讨论。.
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