A Structural Analysis of Parenting Stress, Parenting Behavior and Preschoolers’ Negative Peer Interaction: Focusing on Actor and Partner Effect
AUTHOR : 노보람,은선민,이강이,김은영
INFORMATION : page. 155~179 / 2016 Vol.23 No.4
ABSTRACT
This study examines the mutual dynamism of mothers’ and fathers’ parenting stress, parenting behavior
and their effects on preschoolers’ negative peer interaction. The authors used fourth and fifth year
(2011-2012) data from the Panel Study on Korean Children (PSKC), and the participants numbered 885
households. Data were analyzed upon the Actor-Partner Interdependence(APIM) model using the SPSS and
AMOS programs. Concerning the association between parenting stress and parenting behavior, a significant
negative actor effect between fathers’ parenting stress and fathers’ affective parenting behavior was
identified. Mothers’ parenting stress was also negatively associated with their affective and limit-setting
behaviors. Moreover, mothers’ parenting stress was negatively associated with the fathers’ affective behavior,
indicating a significant partner effect. Mothers’ and fathers’ parenting stress were negatively associated with
the fathers’ affective behavior, both of which were found to be negatively associated with negative peer
interaction. This study is significant for acknowledging mother and father as one dyad, and for considering
parents’ interdependent effects on their child’s social outcomes.