Objectives

Childhood maltreatment has a negative impact on a sense of parenting competition. However, its underlying mechanisms are still unknown. The present research aimed to investigate the roles of parental reflective functioning and social support as mediating factors in the relationship between childhood maltreatment and negative feeling of parenting competence.

Methods

A cross-sectional study was carried out on 489 parents of children aged 5 to 13 between October 23 and December 12, 2021, in Shiraz, Iran. Participants completed the Childhood Trauma Questionnaire (CTQ), Parenting Sense of Competence Scale (PSOC), Perceived Social Support Scale (PSSS), and Parental Reflective Functioning Questionnaire (PRFQ). Structural equation modeling (SEM) was applied using AMOS 22 to test our conceptual model.

Results

The results of structural equation modeling indicated that childhood maltreatment had a negative direct effect on the sense of parenting competence. Furthermore, childhood maltreatment had a negative indirect effect on the sense of parenting competence through both parental reflective functioning and perceived social support.

Conclusions

The findings suggested that increased exposure to childhood maltreatment may have decreased parental competence. However, the important role of parental reflective functioning and perceived social support in the relationship between childhood maltreatment and parenting competence should not be ignored. These results can have some implications for counselors working with parents with childhood trauma experiences.

中文翻译：

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童年虐待和育儿能力感：父母反思功能和感知社会支持的中介作用

目标

童年虐待对育儿竞争感有负面影响。然而，其潜在机制仍然未知。本研究旨在探讨父母反思功能和社会支持在儿童期虐待与消极养育能力之间关系中的中介作用。

方法

2021 年 10 月 23 日至 12 月 12 日期间，在伊朗设拉子对 489 名 5 至 13 岁儿童的父母进行了一项横断面研究。参与者完成了童年创伤问卷 (CTQ)、育儿能力量表 (PSOC)、感知社会支持量表 (PSSS) 和父母反思功能问卷 (PRFQ)。使用 AMOS 22 应用结构方程模型 (SEM) 来测试我们的概念模型。

结果

结构方程模型的结果表明，童年虐待对育儿能力感有负面的直接影响。此外，童年虐待通过父母的反思功能和感知的社会支持对育儿能力感产生负面的间接影响。

结论

研究结果表明，儿童遭受虐待的机会增加可能会降低父母的能力。然而，不应忽视父母反思功能和感知社会支持在儿童期虐待与养育能力之间关系中的重要作用。这些结果可能会对与有童年创伤经历的父母一起工作的辅导员产生一些影响。