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Predicting Parent-Child Aggression Risk in Mothers and Fathers: Role of Emotion Regulation and Frustration Tolerance
- Source :
- Journal of Child and Family Studies. 26:2529-2538
- Publication Year :
- 2017
- Publisher :
- Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2017.
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Abstract
- Efforts to identify targets that could be instrumental for child abuse prevention programs have often implicated stress as a key risk factor. However, existing research has not adequately considered the role of emotion dysregulation and frustration intolerance in predicting parents’ risk to engage in parent-child aggression (PCA). In addition, research in this field continues to focus heavily on mothers, with limited attention to fathers. Thus, the current study investigated whether perceived stress and distress, emotion dysregulation, and frustration intolerance independently predicted risk of PCA in a sample of 81 couples; moreover, the study evaluated whether emotion regulation or frustration tolerance mediated or moderated the association between stress and PCA risk. Findings indicated that each of the risk factors uniquely predicted PCA risk after controlling for demographic factors; neither emotion dysregulation nor frustration intolerance moderated the association between stress and PCA risk but emotion regulation did partially mediate this association. No significant differences in the pattern of these relationships were observed between mothers and fathers. Future research directions are discussed, including methodological considerations as well as evaluating how emotion regulation skills training and improved parental frustration tolerance may prevent parent-child aggression.
- Subjects :
- Aggression
05 social sciences
Poison control
Human factors and ergonomics
050109 social psychology
Risk factor (computing)
Suicide prevention
Developmental psychology
Distress
Physical abuse
Injury prevention
Developmental and Educational Psychology
medicine
0501 psychology and cognitive sciences
medicine.symptom
Life-span and Life-course Studies
Psychology
050104 developmental & child psychology
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 15732843 and 10621024
- Volume :
- 26
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Journal of Child and Family Studies
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........d89fb1477cca68735d929f2379f6fa1a