Parent–child relationship quality has a lifelong impact on individuals’ psychological adjustment, and the family system includes recurring relational patterns across generations. The aim of the current study was to examine the intergenerational transmission of perceived parental acceptance-rejection and psychological adjustment across three generations of the same family lineage. Data were collected from three generations of female members of 246 families. The repeated measures ANOVA and latent growth curve modeling were used for both group-based and family lineage-based comparisons. In addition, autoregressive cross-lagged modeling was used to examine the theoretical model of intergenerational transmission. Results provided sufficient evidence for a modest linear decrease in overall score of perceived parental rejection across generations. However, the positive changes in perceived paternal attitudes emerged with a one-generation time lag compared to perceived maternal attitudes. The model provided an indirect transmission across generations, and second-generation mothering mediated the transmissions between grandmothers and granddaughters. Consecutive generations provided appropriate conditions for readjusting the perceived quality of parent–child relationship established in the previous generations, and the current study mainly highlighted the change in relational patterns across generations.

亲子关系的质量对个体的心理适应有终生的影响，家庭系统包括各代人之间反复出现的关系模式。本研究的目的是检验同一家庭血统的三代人之间父母对父母的接纳-拒绝和心理适应的代际传承。数据收集自246个家庭的三代女性成员。重复测量方差分析和潜伏增长曲线建模用于基于组和基于家族谱系的比较。另外，使用自回归交叉滞后建模来检验代际传递的理论模型。结果提供了足够的证据，表明各代人对父母排斥的总体得分略有线性下降。然而，与知产母态度相比，知觉的父母态度出现了积极的变化，且存在了一代人的时间滞后。该模型提供了几代人之间的间接传播，而第二代母亲则介导了祖母与孙女之间的传播。连续的几代人为重新调整前几代人建立的亲子关系的感知质量提供了适当的条件，而当前的研究主要强调了几代人之间的关系模式的变化。第二代母亲介导了祖母与孙女之间的传播。连续的几代人为重新调整前几代人建立的亲子关系的感知质量提供了适当的条件，当前的研究主要强调了几代人之间的关系模式的变化。第二代母亲介导了祖母与孙女之间的传播。连续的几代人为重新调整前几代人建立的亲子关系的感知质量提供了适当的条件，而当前的研究主要强调了几代人之间的关系模式的变化。