母親可能因成年子女的幫助而產生壓力
Study: Moms can be stressed when certain children care for them
母親很可能會因特定成年子女的關心而產生壓力。WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - Older mothers are more likely to be stressed when they receive help from an adult child who is not their preferred caretaker, according to new research from Purdue University.
普渡大學西拉法葉校區：根據普渡大學的一項最新研究，如果不是父母偏愛的子女，成年子女幫助母親更容易使對方感受壓力，而且母親年紀越大，就越容易感到壓力。"Most mothers have a preference for which child they turn to in a crisis, confide in and prefer as their future caregivers," said Jill Suitor, a professor of sociology. "And when mothers received care from the adult child who was not their first choice, they reported more depressive symptoms, such as sadness, loneliness and sleep disturbances. Although mothers appreciated and acknowledged efforts from caregivers who were not their first choices, these children were less likely to share the mothers' values and to have the personal characteristics important to the mothers in selecting preferred caregivers. This incompatibility can have some strong negative effects."
“大部分的母親都有一個偏愛的孩子，這樣在她們陷入危機時傾向於向其求助，向他吐露心聲，並且會選擇他作爲年老後的照顧者。”社會學教授吉爾·蘇爾特說，“所以當母親收到別的成年子女的幫助時，她們就會出現更多的抑鬱症狀，如悲傷、孤獨和睡眠障礙。儘管母親們一般都會對這些非第一選擇的幫助表示承認和感激，這些子女仍然不大可能同意母親的價值觀和人格特點——正是這些因素促使母親做出偏愛選擇，這種價值觀和個人特點的不兼容性會產生一些強烈的負面影響。”
On the flip side, receiving care from a mother's preferred child did not affect the mom's psychological well-being, she said.
另一方面,接受母親偏愛的孩子的照顧並沒有影響到母親的心理健康,她說。"We expected having that preferred child care for a parent would make a positive difference, but surprisingly it didn't," Suitor said. "And we also found that mothers' depressive symptoms were higher when they received care from the non-preferred child than when they received no care from their offspring."
“我們期望被母親偏愛的孩子對父母進行照顧會起到積極的效果,但是令人驚訝的是竟然沒有,”蘇爾特說。“而且我們還發現,相比較於沒有子女照顧的情況，受到非偏愛的子女的照顧時，母親的抑鬱症狀會更加明顯。”
