The Effects of Child Gender and Temperament, Husbands' Support, and Mothers'Psychological Well-Being on Maternal Parenting Behaviors toward oddlers
Seong-Yeon Park, Kim, Eun-Jin, Lim, Hee-Su
Department of Psychology·Interdisciplinary Program of Child Development & Intervention, Ewha Womans University, Department of Interdisciplinary Program of Child Development & Intervention, Ewha Womans University Department of Interdisciplinary Program of Child Development & Intervention, Ewha Womans University.Vygotsky Child Counselling Center
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The purpose of this study was to explore the effects of child gender and temperament, husbands’ support, and mothers’ psychological well-being on maternal parenting behaviors toward toddlers. Mothers of 214 toddlers responded to questionnaires on the following variables: child temperament, husbands’ support, psychological wellbeing and parenting behaviors. Hierarchical regression analysis revealed that: 1) Children being negative emotionality linked with mothers’ high controlling and rejective parenting behaviors and low responsive parenting behaviors directly and indirectly via mothers’ psychological well-being; 2) Husbands’ support was linked with mothers’ low controlling and rejective behaviors through mothers’ high psychological well-being; 3) Mothers’ low psychological well-being was linked to high mothers’ controlling and rejective parenting. The results of this study underscore mothers’ psychological well-being and husbands’ parenting support in predicting mothers’positive parenting.
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