摘要：This study investigated how mother's thinking styles are represented and researched relationships between their thinking styles,their stress coping styles,and child-rearing stress. Subjects were 254 mothers of children atending child care centers and kindergartens. Instruments were the Thinking Styles Questionnaire Short Version (Stemberg & Wagner,1991),Parenting Stress Index/Short Form (Abidin, 1990),and the Way of Coping Checklist (Lazarus & Folkman,1984) Data were analyzed by MANOVA, Pearson's correlation,and regression. Results showed more educated mothers had legislative and intemnal thinking styles,and mothers employed outside the home had hierarchical,intemal,and liberal thinking styles. Varieties of maternal thinking styles were related to parental distress,to parent-child dysfunctional interaction and to child's difficult temperament.
