The Effect of Parenting Stress on Children's Internalizing Problems:Based on Tripartite Model of Familial Influence Theory and the Spillover Hypothesis
Objective:The purpose of this study was to investigate the influence of paternal parenting stress on children's internalizing problems,as well as the mediating role of paternal psychosomatic problems and the moderating role of child sex.Methods:332 fathers of preschoolers in Sichuan province were investigated by means of the Parenting Stress Index-short form,the brief symptom inventory and CBCL.Results:(l)Paternal parenting stress significantly predicted children's internalizing problems;(2)Paternal psychosomatic problems had a significant mediating effect between paternal parenting stress and children's internalization problems;(3)Child gender played a moderating role in the first half of the mediating ef-fect of father's parenting stress on children's internalization problems.Compared with boy fathers,the positive prediction effect of father's parenting stress on father's physical and mental problems was stronger.Conclusion:Fathers'psychoso-matic problems plays a mediating role in the relationship between their parenting stress and children's internalizing prob-lems,and children's gender plays a moderating role in the first half of the mediation pathway.
Parenting stressInternalizing problems in childrenPsychosomatic problemsGender
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