Cabrera Natasha, Mitchell Stephanie
Department of Human Development, University of Maryland.
Fathering. 2009 Fall;7(3):201-225. doi: 10.3149/fth.0703.201.
The present study tested Abidin's (1992) parenting stress model in a sample of low-income African American fathers and their toddlers, specifically examining the mediation effect of fathers' engagement (self-report and observed) on the association between parenting stress and children's social competence and problem behavior. We found that fathers reported moderate levels of parenting stress, but we found no evidence of a direct effect of stress on children's social development. However, parenting stress predicted more engagement in management, which predicted children's increased problem behaviour. These findings highlight the effect of fathering stress on specific forms of father engagement that affect toddlers' social development.
本研究在低收入非裔美国父亲及其学步儿童样本中检验了阿比丁（1992年）的育儿压力模型，特别考察了父亲参与度（自我报告和观察到的）在育儿压力与儿童社会能力及问题行为之间关联上的中介作用。我们发现，父亲报告的育儿压力水平适中，但未发现压力对儿童社会发展有直接影响的证据。然而，育儿压力预示着更多的管理参与度，而这又预示着儿童问题行为的增加。这些发现凸显了父亲压力对影响学步儿童社会发展的特定形式父亲参与度的作用。
