Psychological Development and Education ›› 2013, Vol. 29 ›› Issue (5): 533-540.

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The Detriment of Mother’s Depression and Punishment on Preschooler’s Problem Behaviors and the Protecting Father

LIU Li-sha, LI Yan-fang   

  1. School of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, National Key Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience and Learning, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875
  • Online:2013-09-15 Published:2013-09-15

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Abstract: Young children are more likely to be vulnerable to the negative mother. Maternal depression and negative parenting could be associated with a range of development problem in early childhood, while father's positive parenting behavior could mitigate the adverse effects and protecting children's smoothly developing. A sample of 184 preschoolers' parents (both mother and father) participated in current study devoted to investigating the mechanism of maternal depression and punishment on preschooler's problem behaviors and the buffer effect of father's positive encouragement. Results showed that: (1) maternal depression predicted children's internalizing problem behaviors while maternal punishment predicted both internalizing and externalizing problem behaviors significantly. (2) Maternal punishment mediated the relations between maternal depression and children's externalizing behaviors completely and partially mediated the associations between maternal depression and children's internalizing behaviors. (3) Paternal positive encouragement significantly moderated the influences of maternal depression on children's externalizing behaviors, but marginal positively moderated the impact of maternal depression on children's internalizing behaviors. Otherwise, paternal positive encouragement couldn't moderate the negative effects of mother's punishment on children's internalizing and externalizing behaviors, which implicated that positive paternal encouragement could buffer the negative effects of maternal depression against young children's problem behaviors.

Key words: maternal depression, mother’s punishment, father’s positive encouragement, preschooler, problem behavior

CLC Number: 

  • B844.1

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