研究顯示:對孩子太嚴厲很可能影響他們的身體健康!

Are you an authoritative parent? A new study has found that harsh parenting may increase a child's risk of obesity and poor physical health in adulthood.

你是獨斷專權的父母嗎？一項新的調查發現，嚴厲的教養可能會增加孩子成年後患有肥胖症的風險，他們的身體健康狀況也會很差。

According to researchers, attempts by one parent to counterbalance the harsh behaviour are not always effective in lessening that risk.

根據研究人員透露，父母中的一人試圖努力平衡另一人嚴厲的行爲是不會有效降低這種風險的。

"Harshness leads to problems with physical health and no matter how hard a spouse tries, they may not be able to erase those effects," said lead study author Thomas Schofield from Iowa State University in the US.

“父母的嚴厲態度導致了孩子健康狀況的下降。不管另一方如何努力平衡，這種不良影響也不會消除的，”美國愛荷華州立大學這項研究的帶頭人托馬斯·斯科菲爾德說道。

"Instead of saying, 'I'm the law and my wife is the gospel' or something like that, better to acknowledge that in terms of harshness, your spouse is not going to be a buffer for the child, so behave responsibly," Schofield added in the paper, published in Social Science and Medicine.

斯科菲爾德在《社會科學與醫學》雜誌上發文補充說道：“不要總是說'我扮演嚴父，我妻子是慈母'這樣的話了，你更應該多去了解嚴厲給孩子造成的不良影響，你的另一半再怎麼樣也不能爲孩子起到緩衝作用，所以要爲自己的行爲負責，”

Researchers videotaped the interactions of 451 two-parent families to assess parenting behaviour and look at changes in the child's health several years later from adolescence to young adulthood.

研究者共錄下了451個雙親家庭的親子互動來評估父母的行爲，並且以此判斷孩子從青春期到成年的身體健康方面產生的變化。

The results indicated that the differences in physical health and BMI were not evident at the beginning of adolescence. The effects persisted into young adulthood after many had moved out of their parents' homes.

調查結果顯示，孩子的身體健康和身體質量指數的差異在青春期初期並不明顯。這些影響會在他們成年離開父母后顯現出來。

"The best thing we can do is to encourage parents to not be harsh. If we want to make sure we're protecting children's health and positive physical health into young adulthood, the best and safest conclusion is to avoid being harsh," Schofield advised.

斯科菲爾德對此建議道：“我們能做到的就是鼓勵父母不要太過嚴厲。如果想確保我們是在保護孩子以及成年後的身體健康的話，那麼最好、最安全的結論就是避免成爲嚴父嚴母。”