Department of Developmental Psychology, Tilburg University, Tilburg, the Netherlands.
Department of Psychology, Education and Child Studies, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
J Youth Adolesc. 2023 Apr;52(4):794-809. doi: 10.1007/s10964-023-01743-4. Epub 2023 Feb 15.
Although within- and between-family bidirectional associations between parental knowledge and children's externalizing behavior have been theoretically proposed, studies that unravel these associations simultaneously remain scarce. This study examined these bidirectional associations within and between German families. 3611 families participated across one-year intervals between children ages 8 to 15 (50.6% boys, 34.5% fathers, 89.0% German-born, M = 3.63, SD = 2.00). Random intercept cross-lagged panel models (RI-CLPM) with linear slopes revealed negative between-family associations between parental knowledge and children's externalizing behavior, and a negative association between the random linear slopes. Generally, no within-family cross-lagged effects were found, but there were some correlated slopes across families. When teasing apart paternal and maternal knowledge, father-driven but not mother-driven lagged effects of increased knowledge predicting decreased externalizing behavior were found. The findings illustrate the importance of fathers' knowledge and new directions for within-family studies of parent-child interactions.
虽然理论上提出了父母知识与儿童外化行为之间的家庭内和家庭间双向关联，但同时揭示这些关联的研究仍然很少。本研究在德国家庭中检验了这些双向关联。在儿童 8 至 15 岁期间的一年间隔内，有 3611 个家庭参与了研究（50.6%的男孩，34.5%的父亲，89.0%的德国出生，M=3.63，SD=2.00）。具有线性斜率的随机截距交叉滞后面板模型（RI-CLPM）显示，父母知识与儿童外化行为之间存在负向的家庭间关联，且随机线性斜率也存在负向关联。一般来说，没有发现家庭内的交叉滞后效应，但在家庭之间存在一些相关的斜率。当分别探讨父亲和母亲的知识时，发现了父亲知识增加预测外化行为减少的滞后效应，但母亲知识没有这种效应。这些发现说明了父亲知识的重要性，并为亲子互动的家庭内研究提供了新的方向。
