Young children born preterm may be more affected by environmental influences than their full-term peers. Few studies have investigated whether such effects exist for older children and young adolescents. With participants aged 9 and 13 years, we examine whether children born preterm could be differentially affected by the quality of their relationship with their mothers and fathers. We used the Growing Up in Ireland dataset: a longitudinal sample of 8,568 children in Ireland (51.4% female, 48.6% male) and their parents. We found that parent-child conflict was consistently associated with poorer verbal, numerical, and socioemotional outcomes; in some instances, parent-child closeness was associated with better outcomes. Being born very preterm was consistently associated with negative outcomes. We found support for a diathesis-stress model of preterm birth in just one instance: children born very preterm displayed a stronger relationship between maternal conflict and increased socioemotional difficulties. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved).

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早产和亲子关系对年龄较大儿童和青少年的社会情感困难、言语能力和数字能力的影响。

早产儿可能比足月同龄人更容易受到环境的影响。很少有研究调查年龄较大的儿童和青少年是否存在这种影响。我们以 9 岁和 13 岁的参与者为对象，研究了早产儿与母亲和父亲的关系质量是否会对其产生不同的影响。我们使用了“Growing Up in Ireland”数据集：对爱尔兰 8,568 名儿童（51.4% 女性，48.6% 男性）及其父母的纵向样本。我们发现，亲子冲突始终与较差的言语、数字和社会情感结果相关。在某些情况下，亲子关系的亲密与更好的结果相关。早产始终与负面结果相关。我们仅在一个例子中发现了对早产的素质压力模型的支持：非常早产的孩子在母亲冲突和增加的社会情感困难之间表现出更强的关系。（PsycInfo 数据库记录 (c) 2023 APA，保留所有权利）。