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http://dx.doi.org/10.5723/kjcs.2017.38.3.19

The Relation Between Fathering and School Children's Effortful Control: Moderating Effects of Parents' Effortful Control  

Kim, Jaehee (Research Institute for Social Science, Ewha Womans University)
Kim, Hyoun K. (Department of Child & Family Studies, Yonsei University)
Lee, Heesun (Department of Early Childhood Education, Gachon University)
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Korean Journal of Child Studies / v.38, no.3, 2017 , pp. 19-32 More about this Journal
Abstract
Objective: This study examined whether the effects of fathering on school children's effortful control would be moderated by fathers' and mothers' own effortful control. Methods: The sample included 371 fourth grade children (47% boys) and their parents. Father's positive and negative parenting behaviors, parents' own effortful control and children's effortful control were assessed. Data were analyzed using hierarchical multiple regression in SPSS 18.0. Results: Parents' effortful control appeared to moderate the effect of fathering on children's effortful control. More specifically, parents' high levels of effortful control increased the effects of positive fathering on children's effortful control. Conclusion: Findings indicated that parents' effortful control tended to increase the effects of positive fathering (and lower the effects of negative fathering). This supports the importance of parents' effortful control in the development of school children's effortful control.
Keywords
paternal effortful control; fathering; maternal effortful control; child's effortful control; moderating effect;
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