어머니 자기효능감, 우울 및 양육스트레스와 유아의 문제행동 간의 관계: 영아기 부정적 정서성을 중심으로

초록

The purpose of the present study was to investigate the structural relationship between mothers’ self efficacy and preschoolers’ problem behaviors via the mediation of maternal depression and parenting stress. Moreover, the study examined the differences in the mothers’ self efficacy, depression, parenting stress and the children’s problem behaviors and any systematic differences in the paths among the variables between high and low negative emotionality groups. The path analysis was conducted using data of 1,694 children and their mothers participating Panel Study on Korean Children(PSKC). The results revealed that mothers’ higher self efficacy significantly predicted lower levels of depression and parenting stress. Mothers’ depression and parenting stress again predicted the children’s externalizing problems, and maternal depression was also significantly related to the children’s internalizing problems at age 4. The relations among mothers’ self efficacy, depression, parenting stress and the children’s problem behaviors were not different between the negative emotionality groups. The findings shed light on the importance of intervention program for efficacy of mothers with infants and toddlers before occurrence of maternal depression or child’s problem behaviors.

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