Department of Applied Psychology and Human Development, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, 252 Bloor St. West, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, M5S 1C6, Canada.
Child Abuse Negl. 2021 Feb;112:104866. doi: 10.1016/j.chiabu.2020.104866. Epub 2020 Dec 30.
Most children exposed to father-perpetrated domestic violence (DV) continue to have contact or live with fathers, yet there is little research on the impact of fathering in the context of domestic violence.
This paper aimed to identify pathways from children's exposure to father-perpetrated DV to compromised social-emotional outcomes. Based on extant literature on fathering and domestic violence, psychological, parenting, and coparenting features in DV fathers were identified as potential mediators of the relationship between child exposure to DV and their social-emotional outcomes.
Participants were 123 fathers with confirmed histories of DV perpetration and 101 comparison fathers without such histories.
Fathers completed self-report measures during two assessment sessions held at the university. Simple mediation analyses were used to examine pathways between fathers' DV perpetration and child internalizing and externalizing difficulties through potential mediators.
Paternal depression, hostility, and coparenting difficulties significantly mediated the relationship between child exposure to DV and child internalizing and externalizing difficulties. Low paternal warmth was associated with child externalizing difficulties but did not function as a mediator. Paternal over-reactivity and laxness, in contrast, were not significantly correlated with DV perpetration or with child internalizing or externalizing outcomes.
This study suggests that fathers' emotion regulation and coparenting difficulties are important correlates of his DV perpetration and of their children's psychological symptoms and should be considered as potential foci for parenting intervention with this population.
大多数遭受父亲实施家庭暴力（DV）的儿童仍与父亲保持联系或共同生活，但对于家庭暴力背景下的父亲养育方式对儿童的影响，研究甚少。
本文旨在确定儿童遭受父亲实施的 DV 暴露与社会情感问题受损之间的途径。基于有关父性和家庭暴力的现有文献，确定了 DV 父亲的心理、养育和共同养育特征，这些特征可能是儿童遭受 DV 暴露与其社会情感结果之间关系的中介因素。
参与者为 123 名有明确 DV 实施史的父亲和 101 名无此类病史的对照组父亲。
父亲在大学进行了两次评估，完成了自我报告的测量。简单中介分析用于通过潜在的中介因素，检验父亲 DV 实施与儿童内化和外化问题之间的关系途径。
父亲的抑郁、敌意和共同养育困难显著中介了儿童暴露于 DV 与儿童内化和外化问题之间的关系。父亲的温暖程度低与儿童的外化问题有关，但不作为中介因素。相比之下，父亲的过度反应和松懈与 DV 实施或儿童内化或外化结果没有显著相关性。
本研究表明，父亲的情绪调节和共同养育困难是其 DV 实施及其子女心理症状的重要相关因素，应将其视为对该人群进行养育干预的潜在焦点。
