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The Influence of Maternal Belief about Corporal Punishment and Parenting Stress on Child Adjustment Problems mediated by Corporal unishment - The Moderating Effect of Parenting Efficacy

  • THE KOREAN JOURNAL OF DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY
  • 2005, 18(3), pp.143-163
  • Publisher : The Korean Society For Developmental Psychology
  • Research Area : Social Science > Psychological Science

장희정 1 BangHeeJeong 1 옥정 1

1이화여자대학교

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ABSTRACT

The purpose of this study was to examine the causal relationship among parental belief about corporal punishment, parenting stress, corporal punishment and child psychological adjustment problems in accordance with parenting efficacy. The sample subjects were comprised of 253 preschool children's mothers participated in the study. Attitudes Toward Spanking/Slapping My Child Scale, Parenting Stress Index, Perceive Parenting Competence, Parenting corporal punishment Scale and Child Behavior Check List were used. The data were analyzed with Pearson's correlations by SPSS 11.0 program, Multi sample analysis based on the structural equation modeling and Path analysis by Amos 4.01 program. This study confirmed how to parental cognitive factors have influence on child adjustment problems mediated by corporal punishment. Specially, this study made clear the influence of corporal punishment on children's internalized problems(withdrawal) as well as externalized problems and the importance of moderating effect of parenting efficacy in corporal punishment process.

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