摘要：Objective: The study examined the longitudinal relationship among paternal depression, affective parenting and children's externalizing behavior problems. Methods: Data were obtained from the fifth, sixth, and seventh waves of preschooler father cohort (N = 1,694) of the Panel Study on Korean Children. Autoregressive cross-lagged model was used to analyze data from the three waves. Results: The major longitudinal findings are as follows. First, paternal depression, affective parenting and children's externalizing behavior problem were consistently stable over time. Second, paternal prior depression had a significantly negative effect on later affective parenting, and prior affective parenting affect externalizing behavior problems negatively. Conclusion: The findings showed that paternal prior depression decreases affective parenting and makes children's externalizing behavior problems worse. It highlighted that educational interventions for fathers to get over depression are likely to reduce the negative influence of parenting on children's externalizing behavior problems.
关键词：paternal depression;affective parenting;externalizing behavior problems;autoregressive cross-lagged;longitudinal study
