Department of Counseling and Human Development, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel.
Aggress Behav. 2021 Mar;47(2):148-160. doi: 10.1002/ab.21932. Epub 2020 Sep 9.
The association between fathers' parenting characteristics and their preschool children's social information processing (SIP) patterns is an understudied research topic. Hence, the current study aims to bridge this gap by examining whether there are differences between mothers' and fathers' parenting characteristics and their children's SIP patterns as well as their social functioning in school, with a specific focus on children's aggressive response evaluation and decision (RED) and social difficulties in kindergarten. Using a multimethod (self-reports and direct assessments) multi-informant (mother, father, child, and teacher) design, we collected data from 115 kindergarten children, their mothers, and their fathers, tapping the parents' perceptions of the relationships with the child and parenting style; the child's aggressively biased RED, and the child's social difficulties in kindergarten. We found that fathers' parenting capacities are associated with children's aggressively biased RED, whereas no such associations were found for mothers. In addition, aggressively biased RED mediated the association between fathers' authoritative parenting style and the child's maladaptive behavior in kindergarten. There were no differences between fathers and mothers in relation to social difficulties in kindergarten, with both parents' authoritative parenting style associated with less social difficulties. However, sex moderated this association in mothers as their authoritative style was associated with social difficulties in boys but not in girls. This difference was not found in fathers. On the other hand, fathers' authoritarian parenting style was associated with aggressive RED in boys but not in girls. The tentative nature of these findings and the need for replications are discussed.
父亲的育儿特点与其学龄前儿童的社会信息处理 (SIP) 模式之间的关系是一个研究不足的研究课题。因此，本研究旨在通过考察母亲和父亲的育儿特点及其与儿童 SIP 模式以及他们在学校的社会功能之间的差异来填补这一空白，重点关注儿童的攻击性反应评价和决策 (RED) 以及幼儿园的社会困难。本研究采用多方法（自我报告和直接评估）多信息源（母亲、父亲、孩子和教师）设计，从 115 名幼儿园儿童、他们的母亲和父亲那里收集数据，了解父母与孩子的关系和育儿风格的看法；儿童的攻击性偏差 RED 和儿童在幼儿园的社会困难。我们发现，父亲的育儿能力与儿童的攻击性偏差 RED 有关，而母亲则没有这种关联。此外，攻击性偏差 RED 中介了父亲权威型育儿风格与儿童在幼儿园适应不良行为之间的关系。在幼儿园的社会困难方面，父亲和母亲之间没有差异，父母的权威型育儿风格都与较少的社会困难有关。然而，这种关联在母亲中受到性别的调节，因为她们的权威风格与男孩的社会困难有关，而与女孩无关。在父亲中没有发现这种差异。另一方面，父亲的专制育儿风格与男孩的攻击性 RED 有关，但与女孩无关。讨论了这些发现的暂定性质和需要重复的问题。
