For new mothers, coping with infant distress is challenging. Mothers’ self-efficacy in emotion-related parenting plays critical roles in shaping their adaptation and children’s development. Research on antecedents of maternal parenting self-efficacy has been predominantly based on the global self-efficacy theory outlined by Bandura in the 1970s. Despite the utility of Bandura’s theory, subsequent research on emotion-related parenting has highlighted avenues for extending and adapting his model to more adequately elucidate the cognitive, affective, and behavioral processes underlying the development of maternal emotion-related parenting self-efficacy. In view of the basic and applied value of a clearer account of how new mothers’ emotion-related parenting self-efficacy emerges and evolves, the increasing amount of research on this topic, and the absence of syntheses of extant studies, we reviewed relevant literature. First, constructs and propositions in prevailing theoretical perspectives are examined for their utility to elucidate the development of new mothers’ emotion-related parenting self-efficacy, particularly the implicated cognitive, affective, and behavioral mechanisms and how they work together. Second, a framework is outlined that integrates strengths of various theories to delineate processes underlying the emergence and evolution of new mothers’ emotion-related parenting self-efficacy. Third, findings across disparate studies are summarized to provide a foundation for the offered framework. To better inform future research, we demonstrated how to build testable mid-range models with substantive constructs and hypotheses from the proposed framework through deductive theorizing process. We also evaluated the utility of the proposed model for studying new fathers. Last, implications for future research and practice are discussed.

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在向父母身份过渡期间情感相关养育中母亲自我效能感的起源和发展：迈向超越班杜拉模型的综合过程框架。

对于新妈妈来说，应对婴儿窘迫是一项挑战。母亲在情感相关育儿中的自我效能感在塑造她们的适应和孩子的发展方面发挥着关键作用。对母亲养育自我效能前因的研究主要基于班杜拉在 1970 年代提出的全球自我效能理论。尽管班杜拉的理论很有用，但随后对情绪相关育儿的研究强调了扩展和调整他的模型的途径，以更充分地阐明母亲情绪相关育儿自我效能感发展背后的认知、情感和行为过程。鉴于对新妈妈情绪相关的育儿自我效能感如何产生和演变的更清晰的描述具有基础和应用价值，关于这一主题的研究越来越多，由于缺乏现有研究的综合，我们回顾了相关文献。首先，检验了主流理论观点中的构念和命题在阐明新妈妈情绪相关的养育自我效能感发展方面的效用，特别是涉及的认知、情感和行为机制以及它们如何协同工作。其次，概述了一个框架，该框架整合了各种理论的优势，以描述新妈妈与情绪相关的养育自我效能感的出现和演变的过程。第三，总结了不同研究的结果，为所提供的框架提供了基础。为了更好地为未来的研究提供信息，我们展示了如何通过演绎理论化过程从提议的框架中构建具有实质性结构和假设的可测试的中档模型。我们还评估了所提出的模型在研究新父亲方面的效用。最后，讨论了对未来研究和实践的影响。