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The Effects of Fathers' Parenting Involvement on Young Children's Self-Control: The Mediating Effect of Mothers' Parenting Competence

아버지 양육참여가 유아의 자기조절력에 미치는 영향: 어머니 양육효능감의 매개효과

  • Choi, Mi-Kyung (Duksung Women's University Department of Human Development and Family Studies)
  • 최미경 (덕성여자대학교 아동가족학과)
  • Received : 2020.03.20
  • Accepted : 2020.04.23
  • Published : 2020.08.30
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Abstract

This study investigated the relationship among fathers' parenting involvement, mothers' parenting competence, and young children's self-control. Participants consisted of 325 mothers and young children (169 boys and 153 girls) from the Seoul area who completed questionnaires on fathers' parenting involvement, mothers' parenting competence, and young children's self-control. Data were statistically analyzed using basic descriptive statistics, Pearson's correlation, and multiple regression analysis. Baron and Kenny's method was examined. Subsequently, the Sobel test was performed to check the mediating model's significance and was adapted to SPSS version 21.0 for Windows. The major findings were as follows. First, fathers' parenting involvement was positively correlated with young children's self-control and mothers' parenting competence. Second, mothers' parenting competence was positively correlated with young children's self-control. The mothers' parenting competence indicated a tendency to play a perfectly/partially play a mediating role between fathers' parenting involvement and young children's self-control; consequently, a fathers' parenting involvement had a direct effect as well as an indirect effect through the mothers' parenting competence on young children's self-control. The results indicated that a mothers' parenting competence plays a crucial role in the relationship between a fathers' parenting involvement and the young children's self-control.

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