Psychological Development and Education ›› 2015, Vol. 31 ›› Issue (3): 319-326.doi: 10.16187/j.cnki.issn1001-4918.2015.03.09

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Association between Parenting Stress and Child Behavioral Problems: The Mediation Effect of Parenting Styles

LIU Yapeng, DENG Huihua, ZHANG Guangzhen, LIANG Zongbao, LU Zuhong   

  1. Key Laboratory of Child Development and Learning Science, Ministry of Education, Institude of Child Developrnent and Education, Research Center for Learning Science, Southeast University, Nanjing 210096, China
  • Online:2015-05-15 Published:2015-05-15

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Abstract: This longitudinal study aimed to explore whether parenting styles mediated the associations of parenting stress with child behavioral problems. 364 children and their parents participated in this study. Father and mother reported their parenting stress at 6 months, parenting styles at 24 months, as well as behavioral problems of children aged 48 months, respectively. The results showed that parental parenting stress positively and significantly predicted their overprotective and harsh parenting. Maternal overprotective parenting negatively predicted preschoolers' externalizing problems, while paternal overprotective parenting positively predicted internalizing problems. Paternal harsh parenting was positively associated with both internalizing and externalizing problems. Maternal parenting stress was directly related to externalizing problems. However, paternal parenting styles played full mediating effect in the associations of their parenting stress with child internalizing and externalizing problems. These results indicated that maternal parenting stress was directly related to externalizing problems, while paternal parenting stress influenced their parenting styles, which in turn resulted in preschoolers' behavioral problems.

Key words: parenting stress, parenting styles, behavioral problems, mediating effect, preschoolers

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  • B844
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