Abstract

Approximately half of all adolescents aged 9-16 are exposed to pornography. Research has indicated that parents often try to employ various mediating strategies (negative active, restriction and co-use) in order to regulate their children's exposure to undesired content, and that most of these strategies are ineffective or have the opposite effect. In the present study, we investigated whether parental psychopathology (depression, anxiety, stress) promotes the adoption of less optimal parenting styles and an ineffective mediating strategy to regulate their child pornography exposure. The sample comprised 1,070 Jewish-Israeli parents to 10-14-year-old adolescents. Results indicated that for parents who characterized with mild anxiety and/or stress tend to adopte more authoritarian and less authoritative parenting style, which were linked with more ineffective mediating strategies with their child regarding pornography exposure – restrictive and negative active. These findings provide an opportunity for therapists as well as parents to gain a better insight into the link between psychopathology, parenting styles and the ability to regulate pornography exposure among children.

摘要

大约一半的 9-16 岁青少年接触过色情内容。研究表明，父母经常尝试采用各种调解策略（消极主动、限制和共同使用）来规范他们的孩子接触不良内容，而这些策略中的大多数都无效或产生相反的效果。在本研究中，我们调查了父母的精神病理学（抑郁、焦虑、压力）是否会促进采用不太理想的养育方式和无效的调解策略来规范他们的儿童色情暴露。该样本包括 1,070 名 10-14 岁青少年的犹太裔以色列父母。结果表明，对于具有轻度焦虑和/或压力特征的父母而言，他们倾向于采用更专制和不那么权威的养育方式，这与他们的孩子关于色情暴露的更无效的调解策略有关 - 限制性和消极主动。这些发现为治疗师和父母提供了一个机会，可以更好地了解精神病理学、养育方式和调节儿童色情暴露能力之间的联系。