Citation

Lee CM, Beauregard C, Bax KA. J. Fam. Psychol. 2005; 19(2): 237-245.

Affiliation

Centre for Psychological Services, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada. cmlee@uottawa.ca

Copyright

(Copyright © 2005, American Psychological Association)

DOI

10.1037/0893-3200.19.2.237

PMID

15982101

Abstract

Dual-income parents (N = 122 couples) with an oldest child 18-60 months of age completed the Child-Rearing Disagreements Scale (E. N. Jouriles et al., 1991), the Child Behavior Checklist (T. M. Achenbach & L. A. Rescorla, 2000), and the Verbal Aggression subscale of the Conflicts and Problem-Solving Scale (P. K. Kerig, 1996). Replicating the results of E. N. Jouriles et al. (1991) and extending these findings to daughters and fathers, the authors found links between child-related disagreements and parental ratings of child behavior problems in this low-risk sample. There were no links between fathers' reports of verbal aggression and child behavior problems. Among mothers, however, use of verbal aggression mediated the link between child-related disagreements and ratings of sons' internalizing problems. Verbal aggression did not moderate the link between child-related disagreements and child behavior problems for either mothers or for fathers.

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