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(quán)的父母嗎？一項新的調(diào)查發(fā)現(xiàn)嚴苛的父母會導致孩子成年后患有肥胖癥和身體素質(zhì)偏低。

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

根據(jù)研究者消息，父母中一人用溫和態(tài)度來努力平衡另一人的嚴苛是不會有效降低肥胖者的風險的。

\"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.\"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.

“父母的嚴苛態(tài)度導致孩子健康狀況的下降，不管另一方如何努力溫和平衡，嚴苛態(tài)度導致的不良影響也不能消除，”美國愛荷華州立大學這項研究的領(lǐng)導者Thomas Schofield說道。“不要總是說‘我扮演嚴父，我妻子是慈母’這樣的話了，你應該更多地了解嚴苛給孩子造成的不良影響，你的另一半再扮演活菩薩也不能起到緩沖作用，所以要為自己的行為負責，” Schofield在《社會科學與醫(yī)學》雜志上發(fā)文說道。

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.

研究者收錄了451個雙親家庭的親子互動來考察父母行為，來判斷給孩子從青春期到成年的身體健康方面產(chǎn)生的變化。

However， when they measured the effect on body mass index， the health risk of harsh parenting increased as warmth from the other parent increased.

然而調(diào)查結(jié)果，從他們的身體質(zhì)量指數(shù)顯示，嚴苛父母孩子的健康風險隨著父母另一方施加的溫情而增高。

No parent in this sample was observed hitting their adolescent， but Schofield said there were other signs of physical aggression， such as pinching and pushing.

這些父母中無一人毆打過自己青少年期的孩子，但是Schofield 說父母有其他方面對孩子進行身體侵害的行為，例如掐或者推搡。

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. This exposure can have a lasting effect on the developing brain during childhood and early adolescence， he added.

調(diào)查結(jié)果顯示孩子在身體健康和身體質(zhì)量指數(shù)的差異在青春期初期并不明顯。這些影響會在他們成年離開父母后顯現(xiàn)出來。這些忍受會在他們童年大腦發(fā)育期和青春期前期產(chǎn)生深遠影響。

\"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.

“我們能做到的就是鼓勵父母不要太過嚴苛。如果想確保我們是在保護孩子以及成年后的身體健康，那么最好的方法就是做個慈母慈父，” Schofield建議。