TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2019//
TI  - Pathways from father engagement during infancy to child aggression in late childhood
JO  - Child psychiatry and human development
A1  - Wang, Xiafei
A1  - Wu, Qiong
A1  - Yoon, Susan
SP  - 605
EP  - 617
VL  - 50
IS  - 4
N2  - Child aggression and its dire consequences cause social problems. Informed by family systems theory and parenting stress theory, this study specifically examined the mediating pathways from father engagement to child aggression through maternal parenting stress, child resistant attachment, and maternal physical abuse. We conducted a secondary data analysis on 2016 mother-child dyads from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study by building structural equation models. We found indirect effects of father engagement on child aggression through influencing mothers' parenting stress. Children's attachment and mothers' physical abuse mediated the effects of mothers' stress on child behavior-based aggression and verbal- and mood-based aggression. Interventions should target fostering fathers' engagement, alleviating mothers' parenting stress and changing mothers' abusive parenting, and improving mother-child attachment.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0009-398X
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10578-018-00866-1
ID  - ref1
ER  -