유아기 자녀를 둔 아버지 우울, 온정적 양육행동, 유아의 외현화 문제행동간의 자기회귀교차지연 효과 검증

Abstract

Objective: The study examined the longitudinal relationship among paternal depression, affective parenting and children's externalizing behavior problems. Methods: Data were obtained from the fifth, sixth, and seventh waves of preschooler father cohort (N=1,694) of the Panel Study on Korean Children. Autoregressive cross-lagged model was used to analyze data from the three waves. Results: The major longitudinal findings are as follows. First, paternal depression, affective parenting and children's externalizing behavior problem were consistently stable over time. Second, paternal prior depression had a significantly negative effect on later affective parenting, and prior affective parenting affect externalizing behavior problems negatively. Conclusion: The findings showed that paternal prior depression decreases affective parenting and makes children's externalizing behavior problems worse. It highlighted that educational interventions for fathers to get over depression are likely to reduce the negative influence of parenting on children's externalizing behavior problems.