Journal of Families and Better Life (가정과삶의질연구)

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Investigating the Relationship among Co-Parenting, Maternal Parenting Stress, and Preschoolers' Anxiety and Hyperactivity

부모공동양육 및 어머니의 양육스트레스와 유아의 불안 및 과잉행동 간의 관계

  • Choi, Mi-Kyung (Dept. of Human Development and Family Studies, Duksung Women's Univ.) ;
  • Doh, Hyun-Sim (Dept. of Child Development, Ewha Womans Univ.) ;
  • Kim, Min-Jung (Dept. of Child Development, Ewha Womans Univ.) ;
  • Shin, Nana (Dept. of Child Development, Ewha Womans Univ.)
  • 최미경 (덕성여자대학교 아동가족학과) ;
  • 도현심 (이화여자대학교 아동학과) ;
  • 김민정 (이화여자대학교 아동학과) ;
  • 신나나 (이화여자대학교 아동학과)
  • Received : 2013.01.15
  • Accepted : 2013.03.03
  • Published : 2013.04.30
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Abstract

The main purpose of this study was to examine the relationship among co-parenting, maternal parenting stress, and preschoolers' anxiety and hyperactivity with a sample of 155 mothers with 3 to 4 year old children (83 boys and 72 girls) living in Seoul. They completed a questionnaire on co-parenting, maternal parenting stress, and preschoolers' anxiety and hyperactivity. The results were analyzed by means of correlations and regressions. Co-parenting was positively correlated with preschoolers' anxiety and hyperactivity but affectionate, integrated co-parenting was negatively correlated with preschoolers' anxiety and hyperactivity. Maternal stress of parental suffering, dysfunctional interaction, and difficult temperament were positively related to preschoolers' anxiety and hyperactivity. Conflicting co-parenting was positively correlated with maternal stress of parental suffering, but affectionate and integrated co-parenting was negatively correlated with maternal stress of parental suffering and difficult temperament. Furthermore, maternal parenting stress mediated the relationship between co-parenting and preschoolers' anxiety and hyperactivity. Especially, maternal stress of parental suffering tended to play a perfectly mediating role between conflicting and integrated co-parenting and preschoolers' anxiety, between conflicting co-parenting and preschoolers' hyperactivity. Maternal stress of difficult temperament tended to play a perfectly mediating role between integrated co-parenting and preschoolers' anxiety and between conflicting co-parenting and preschoolers' hyperactivity. These results clearly indicate that maternal parenting stress plays a crucial role in the levels of preschoolers' anxiety and hyperactivity.

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