College of Social Work, The Ohio State University, Rm 001, 1947 N College Rd, 43210, Columbus, OH, USA.
Department of Family and Child Sciences, College of Human Sciences, The Florida State University, Tallahassee, USA.
Child Psychiatry Hum Dev. 2019 Aug;50(4):605-617. doi: 10.1007/s10578-018-00866-1.
Child aggression and its dire consequences cause social problems. Informed by family systems theory and parenting stress theory, this study specifically examined the mediating pathways from father engagement to child aggression through maternal parenting stress, child resistant attachment, and maternal physical abuse. We conducted a secondary data analysis on 2016 mother-child dyads from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study by building structural equation models. We found indirect effects of father engagement on child aggression through influencing mothers' parenting stress. Children's attachment and mothers' physical abuse mediated the effects of mothers' stress on child behavior-based aggression and verbal- and mood-based aggression. Interventions should target fostering fathers' engagement, alleviating mothers' parenting stress and changing mothers' abusive parenting, and improving mother-child attachment.
儿童攻击行为及其严重后果会引发社会问题。本研究以家庭系统理论和父母压力理论为基础，具体探讨了父亲参与度通过母亲育儿压力、儿童反抗依恋和母亲身体虐待对儿童攻击行为的中介途径。我们通过构建结构方程模型，对来自脆弱家庭和儿童福利研究的 2016 对母子对进行了二次数据分析。我们发现，父亲参与度通过影响母亲的育儿压力对儿童攻击行为产生间接影响。儿童的依恋和母亲的身体虐待中介了母亲压力对儿童基于行为的攻击、言语和情绪攻击的影响。干预措施应针对培养父亲的参与度、减轻母亲的育儿压力和改变母亲的虐待性育儿行为以及改善母子依恋关系。
