Psychological Development and Education ›› 2018, Vol. 34 ›› Issue (1): 28-37.doi: 10.16187/j.cnki.issn1001-4918.2018.01.04

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The Joint Effects of Paternal and Maternal Psychological Control and Children Temperament on Children Problem Behaviors: Diathesis Stress or Differential Susceptibility

GAO Xin, DING Bilei, FENG Shuhui, XING Shufen   

  1. School of Psychology, Capital Normal University, Beijing, 100048, China
  • Online:2018-01-15 Published:2018-01-15

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Abstract: This study examined the joint effects of paternal and maternal psychological control and children's negative emotionality on children problem behavior in the perspective of Temperament×Environment interaction among 226 preschool children and their parents. Data were collected from parents' reports. The hierarchical regression analyses and Analysis of Regions of Significance (RoS) were employed to examine the joint effects. Results indicated that:when predicting externalizing problems, the main effects of paternal and maternal psychological control and the interaction of paternal psychological control and children' negative emotionality were significant. The analysis of RoS showed that children with high negative emotionality suffered more from high paternal psychological control and benefited more from low paternal psychological control, which supported the differential susceptibility model. When predicting the internalizing problems, neither the main effects of paternal and maternal psychological control nor the interactions of children negative emotionality and paternal or maternal psychological control were significant. Those results suggested that the effect of parental psychological control on internalizing problems was relative moderate in early childhood.

Key words: psychological control, negative emotionality, problem behavior, diathesis-stress model, differential susceptibility model

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