Psychological Development and Education ›› 2020, Vol. 36 ›› Issue (1): 84-93.doi: 10.16187/j.cnki.issn1001-4918.2020.01.10

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Negative Prediction of Father Involvement on Aggressive Behaviors among Primary School Students: The Partial Mediating Effect of Maternal Parenting Stress

GAO Wen1,2, ZHU Jinhui1, FANG Zhen1   

  1. 1. School of Psychology, Liaoning Normal University, Dalian 116029;
    2. Liaoning Collaborative Innovation Center of Children and Adolescents Healthy Personality Assessment and Cultivation, Dalian 116029
  • Published:2020-02-05

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Abstract: To investigate the mediating effect of maternal parenting stress in the relationship between aggressive behaviors of primary school students and their fathers' involvement in parenting, this study surveyed 604 pupils from grade one to six and their parents with peer nominations and questionnaires. The results of several latent variable structural equation models showed:(1) father involvement (engagement, accessibility, and responsibility) had negative predictions on children's physical aggression and relational aggression; (2) maternal parenting distress and mother-child dysfunctional interaction played partial intermediary roles between father involvement and children's relational aggression, while only mother's parenting distress played the same role between father involvement and children's physical aggression. These results suggested that more father involvement could lead to less relational aggression of children through reducing their mothers' distress on parenting and dysfunctional interactions with children, and also lead to less physical aggression of children through reducing their mothers' distress on parenting.

Key words: primary school students, aggressive behavior, father involvement, maternal parenting stress, partial mediating effect

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