Child Aggression as a Source and a Consequence of Parenting Stress: A Three-Wave Longitudinal Study
- This longitudinal study examined the links between child aggression and parenting stress over 4years. Child aggression was hypothesized to contribute to parenting stress, which should increase aggression. Parents and teachers of 239 German children aged between 6 and 15years completed measures of child aggression at Time 1 and Time 3, complemented by children's self-reports of aggression at Time 3. Parents rated their child-focused and parent-focused stress at an intermediate measurement Time 2. Child-focused stress mediated the path from Time 1 to Time 3 aggression in boys and girls, whereas parent-focused stress was unrelated to Time 3 aggression. The findings help to understand the continuity of aggressive behavior in childhood and adolescence and highlight the need to intervene early with families susceptible to parenting stress.
Author details: | Barbara KrahéORCiDGND, Rebecca BondüORCiDGND, Anna Höse, Günter EsserORCiDGND |
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DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1111/jora.12115 |
ISSN: | 1050-8392 |
ISSN: | 1532-7795 |
Title of parent work (English): | Journal of research on adolescence : the official journal of the Society for Research on Adolescence |
Publisher: | Wiley-Blackwell |
Place of publishing: | Hoboken |
Publication type: | Article |
Language: | English |
Year of first publication: | 2015 |
Publication year: | 2015 |
Release date: | 2017/03/27 |
Volume: | 25 |
Issue: | 2 |
Number of pages: | 12 |
First page: | 328 |
Last Page: | 339 |
Funding institution: | German Research Foundation [GRK 1668-1] |
Organizational units: | Humanwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Strukturbereich Kognitionswissenschaften / Department Psychologie |
Peer review: | Referiert |
Institution name at the time of the publication: | Humanwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Institut für Psychologie |