Preschoolers' characterizations of multiple family relationships during family doll play.

Journal of clinical child psychology Pub Date : 1999-06-01 DOI:10.1207/s15374424jccp2802_12

J P McHale, A Neugebauer, A R Asch, A Schwartz

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Investigated 4-year-olds' depictions of family relationships during a semistructured doll play task. Examined developmental and family correlates of these depictions, and their relative stability over a 1-month period. Forty-nine children related stories about happy, sad, mad, and worried families using dolls reflecting their own family configuration. For each story, coders recorded (a) proportion of total story time devoted to each family dyad and (b) number of conflictive, aggressive, and affectionate acts per dyad. Children divided their focus during stories evenly between father-child, mother-child, and father-mother relationships with child-sibling interactions occurring regularly among participants with siblings. Depictions of affection and aggression among family figures were relatively commonplace, related to mothers' reports of family climate, and stable across a 1-month period. Results substantiated preschoolers' awareness and discrimination of intrafamily relationship dynamics and provided some guidelines and cautions to practitioners who employ doll family assessments in their clinical work.

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学龄前儿童在家庭玩偶游戏中对多重家庭关系的描述。

调查四岁儿童在半结构化娃娃游戏任务中对家庭关系的描述。检查这些描述的发育和家庭相关性，以及它们在1个月期间的相对稳定性。49个孩子用娃娃讲述了快乐、悲伤、疯狂和焦虑的家庭故事，娃娃反映了他们自己的家庭结构。对于每个故事，编码员记录了(a)每个家庭的总故事时间比例和(b)每个家庭的冲突、攻击和深情行为的数量。孩子们在讲故事时将注意力平均分配在父子关系、母子关系和父子关系上，而在有兄弟姐妹的参与者中，孩子和兄弟姐妹之间的互动经常发生。家庭人物对感情和攻击性的描述相对普遍，与母亲对家庭气氛的报告有关，并且在一个月内保持稳定。结果证实了学龄前儿童对家庭内部关系动态的认识和辨别，并为在临床工作中使用娃娃家庭评估的从业者提供了一些指导和注意事项。

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