标题：Relationships between Maternal Parenting Stress and Reports on Children's Internalizing and Externalizing Problems: A Cross-Lagged Structural Equation Model
期刊名称：Journal of Educational and Developmental Psychology
印刷版ISSN：1927-0526
电子版ISSN：1927-0534
出版年度：2013
卷号：3
期号：1
页码：39
DOI：10.5539/jedp.v3n1p39
出版社：Canadian Center of Science and Education
摘要：This article presents results of a two-wave panel study with a one-year interval between two time points. The main aim was to examine the reciprocal relationship between parenting stress and reports on problem behavior based on cross-lagged structural equation models. At both time points, adolescents (M = 12.51 years on the first time point) and their mothers reported on internalizing and externalizing problem behavior of the adolescents. Additionally, mothers reported on their parenting stress. Independent of grade, mothers of boys report more parenting stress than mothers of girls. Maternal reports on problem behavior are lower than adolescents’ self-reports and both reports are correlated with maternal parenting stress. The results of the cross-lagged model comparisons indicate a unidirectional relation between parenting stress and proxy-reports/cross-informant discrepancies regarding adolescent problem behavior: parenting stress appears to be a predictor of proxy reports/cross-informant discrepancies but not vice versa. The results are discussed in terms of a meaningfulness of cross-informant discrepancies.
